Re: pdf images in html export

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Hi Marco,

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:
> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>
>> how would I export an org file containing
>>
>>   [[file:./myimage.pdf]]
>>
>> to html so that a say png version myimage.pdf is inlined in the html
>> which links to the pdf?
>>
>> I guess it should be possible to run imagemagick on all pdf links during
>> export somehow.
>      
> You could introduce a relation of the pdf-filenames to the respective
> thumb-filenames e.g. by using the suffix '_thumb'.  Before the export
> the conversion tool would create the thumbs.
>
> The org-file could reference the data as
>
> [[file:./myimage.pdf][file:myimage_thumb.png]]
>
> See the info page (info "(org)Images in HTML export")?
>
> Untested.  I just accidentially browsed that info page yesterday.
>
>

Thanks for your thoughts.  I would like to automate all of that.  So, I
guess the first question is where to put code that would trigger the
conversion and how to best detect links to pdfs.

Thanks,
Andreas