Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@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. HTH, Marco