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FoxyLoxy
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4 years ago

Acces thumbnail images for PDFs

I'm using Dropbox to store PDF files, and my external application needs to programmatically access a thumbnail image of the first page for each of these PDF files.   These thumbnail images need t...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

FoxyLoxy That's correct, /2/files/get_thumbnail_v2 technically can return thumbnails for PDF files. It doesn't officially document support for PDF files in particular though, so I can't officially recommend relying on that. I will send this along as a request to consider that officially supported, but I can't promise if or when that might be done.

 

Здравко You mentioned you're getting an "Internal Server Error" on some piece of functionality. Can you share the details so we can look into it? Thanks in advance!

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FoxyLoxy
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Thanks @Greg-DB,

I'll try using /2/files/get_thumbnail_v2. I had assumed this would simply not work at all for PDF files, since they're not mentioned in the list of supported file types.

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