Feature request: PDF preview about cfiles HOT 6 CLOSED

are you experiencing any lags with your method? AFAIK ranger uses pdftotext for pdf previews so I'll look into it too

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Ranger does use pdftotext as default, but there's a commented out code block in scope.sh in ranger which converts the PDF to image. Looking at it now, ranger uses pdftoppm rather than ghostscript.

It doesn't really lag, ghostscript is quite fast. video

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Check out the latest release and let me know if you encounter any bugs. I tested it on some small PDF documents and it was responsive. Haven't yet tried with bigger sized PDFs

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I think pdftoppm is somehow inconsistent about the numbering it uses:

I (mostly) couldn't get a PDF preview. The code expects an image preview to be generated with the name "prev-001.jpg", right? My pdftoppm gives "prev-01.jpg" sometimes:

However adding the -singlefile option removes the numbering from the output file, resulting in only the extension ".jpg" being added:

I wonder why the numbering is sometimes different?

Thanks for putting in the time to add this feature :) However, it's a bit slow, and for some reason, I'm getting the same PDF preview for different files: video

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Checkout the latest commit. I used the -singlefile option and now I am not getting same previews for different files. The speed is okay for small PDFs but it can take 1-2s for 40+mb PDFs. For this reason I have made it optional in the config. Try the latest commit and let me know how it works for you

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Perfect! Thank you :)

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