doconv (version 0.3.2)

to_miniature: Thumbnail of a document

Description

Convert a file into an image (magick image) where the pages are arranged in rows, each row can contain one to several pages.

The result can be saved as a png file.

Usage

to_miniature(
  filename,
  row = NULL,
  width = NULL,
  border_color = "#ccc",
  border_geometry = "2x2",
  dpi = 150,
  fileout = NULL,
  timeout = 120,
  ...
)

Value

a magick image object as returned by image_read().

Arguments

filename

input filename, supported documents are 'Microsoft Word', 'Microsoft PowerPoint', 'RTF' and 'PDF' document.

row

row index for every pages. 0 are to be used to drop the page from the final minature.

• c(1, 1) is to be used to specify that a 2 pages document is to be displayed in a single row with two columns.

• c(1, 1, 2, 3, 3) is to be used to specify that a 5 pages document is to be displayed as: first row with pages 1 and 2, second row with page 3, third row with pages 4 and 5.

• c(1, 1, 0, 2, 2) is to be used to specify that a 5 pages document is to be displayed as: first row with pages 1 and 2, second row with pages 4 and 5.

width

width of a single image, recommanded values are:

• 650 for docx files

• 750 for pptx files

border_color

border color, see image_border().

border_geometry

border geometry to be added around images, see image_border().

dpi

resolution (dots per inch) to use for images, see pdf_convert().

fileout

if not NULL, result is saved in a png file whose filename is defined by this argument.

timeout

timeout in seconds that libreoffice is allowed to use in order to generate the corresponding pdf file, ignored if 0.

...

arguments used by webshot2 when HTML document.

Examples

library(locatexec)
docx_file <- system.file(
  package = "doconv",
  "doc-examples/example.docx"
)
if(exec_available("word"))
  to_miniature(docx_file)

pptx_file <- system.file(
  package = "doconv",
  "doc-examples/example.pptx"
)
if(exec_available("libreoffice") && check_libreoffice_export())
  to_miniature(pptx_file)