6 Mar
2007
6 Mar
'07
10 a.m.
Richard wrote:
"Some day in the future" features
- extract first page of the PDF as an image and link with a
thumbnail
I have done things like this in the past and it is very straightforward
with e.g. PDF::API2 (one of my favorite Perl modules) or even just
ghostscript.
Somebody else mentioned databases... properly done this could be quite
handy. But the existing directory hierarchy (multi-level) really is more
amenable to the actual needs than any database system (which
unfortunately tend to "flatten" the structure).
Flattening the structure is useful for some things, but only if you
then "blow it back up" into a hierarchy. For example I could imagine a
directory of 3rd-party-DEC-compatible stuff that softlinks back into the
manufacturer's directories. This is NOT a flat structure... "A maze of
twisty passages all alike" is a better analogy!
Tim.