This suggestions are helpful but only when creating thumbnails for 1 item at a time. Are you familiar with a method for generating thumbnails for all books at once?
On Monday, 2 March 2026 at 01:54:53 UTC-8 Walk, Martin wrote: > Hi Wanangwa, > > you can also trigger the media-filter (responsible for generating > thumbnails) for a single item or a collection/community from within the > DSpace web interface: > > - Go to “Processes” > - Create a new process by clicking “+ New” > - Choose “filter-media” > - Add a parameter “--identifier” to identify the item or collection you > want to generate thumbnails for by their handle. > - Optionally you might restrict the media filters with the “--plugins” > parameter > > > > Best regards, > Martin > > > > On 27. Feb 2026, at 19:55, DSpace Technical Support < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Wanangwa, > > > > To add a thumbnail to an existing item, you'll need to upload it as a > bitstream under the Thumbnail bundle (See Edit Bitstream documentation). > Is there a particular step in there that has not been working? > > Alternatively if you need to auto-generate thumbnails for many existing > items, you could look into the media filters script. There are several > filters for creating thumbnails based on PDFs. > > > > Last, there is not currently a PDF viewer integrated with DSpace. There > is an implementation that is under review, and could theoretically become a > part of the 10.0 release (but that is still unknown, not guaranteed). > > > > Hope that helps you get started, > > -Lia > > On Friday, February 27, 2026 at 7:38:38 AM UTC-5 [email protected] > wrote: > > Hello there follow users. I am having a hard time creating thumbnails > for the existing books in my repository. But any new books being uploaded > are automatically given a thumbnail. I would also like to make it so that > users can view books on the browser directly and not just automatically > download books. > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, > > > > Wanangwa. > > > > -- > > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: > https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/134f6404-9cae-49cd-a455-7960cbc80ad9n%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/f56ade03-420a-4cfc-89c8-4a571b7225dfn%40googlegroups.com.
