We are using PIL (Pillow) to extract the thumbnails. If it supports
extracting PDF thumbnails, then that's it (maybe it does and our code is
doing it wrong, I don't know)

If not, then there could be a special case in the code for PDFs, since this
sounds pretty useful!

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 5:49 AM Jan Girlich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to Nikola and am trying to build a PDF gallery like
> https://ds.ccc.de/download.html
>
> I thought a gallery is close enough to make this work, but I see the
> following problems:
>
> 1. I need to extract a preview PNG from each PDF. The Python code for
> that is trivial, I just don't know how to run it before the gallery
> code is running and trying to create the HTML. I only found the FILTER
> option to run on files after generation.
>
> 2. I want the preview link to be ds102.PNG, but the download link to be
> to ds102.PDF and I have no idea how I can configure Nikola to do this.
>
> How would you build such a download gallery?
>
> Thanks,
> vollkorn
>
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