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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 to be inserted into emails, so I think the Embedder functionality will not be suitable for this use case?
Is there a way to directly access the thumbnail that Dropbox generates for each file via http?
If not, is there a suggested/recommended approach to convert PDF to an image format and use that for a thumbnail?
Thanks
Thanks @Greg-DB,
It's not exactly missing URL encoding, but you drive my to right direction and I found out what's wrong. Since I have used non ASCII symbols in the file name this seems confuses the function. I have no idea why? There is an easy workaround: I just stripped filename in the link; the name isn't mandatory there. Everything works now. ![]()
You can take a look if this can be fixed. To reproduce, just rename your "test.pdf" to something like "тест.pdf", for example. It still works while passed as header, but not as parameter! Anyway... I successfully bypassed the issue. ![]()
Thanks again!
@Здравко Thanks! That sounds like it may be a bug on our side as well. I'll ask the team to check on that.
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