How to know when a KoDocument is ready for generatePreview(...)?

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Fri Jun 29 05:32:43 BST 2012


On Friday 29 June 2012 Jun, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi Boudewijn,
> 
> Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2012, 06:21:18 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> > And shouldn't words just save a thumbnail in the odt file that can be used?
> 
> Still ODF files without a thumbnail (coming from somewhere else) need to be 
> supported. And, most output of import filter chains e.g. also does not have a 
> thumbnail yet, so the thumbnailer needs to render one itself.
> 
> Additionally, if the requested preview should be quite larger than the 
> thumbnail available (e.g. in the Preview tab of the file properties), then 
> rendering is also needed to be done.
> 

Ah, right, good points.

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