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Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to automatically extract previews from files to use later on in the templates. Files can be images, but also doc, docx, xls, pdf etc.
I know there's a pdf extraction module, but i would like my client to upload a file (make it available as download for others) and i would like to show it on the frontend with a preview.
Thanks
Guy
You'll have to use some kind of helper library, possibly in league with some kind of message queue and process it outside of silverstripe I'd imagine, creating an image.
You could then show the image if it exists, or a pending picture with/or a file type extention generic logo image.
There are probably other solutions, but this is how I'd approach this problem.
