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William Real
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| 12-01-2006 6:29 AM |
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Multimedia should support more file types. I discovered with a shock recently that a format as common as .pdf is not supported, for instance.
Will Real
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Linda Ward
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| 12-01-2006 9:28 AM |
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Will,
You can attach pdf files to a Multimedia record but rather than the first page of the document showing as the thumnail what you end up with is a default Adobe icon. I've added videos and other multimedia objects to a multimedia record and it just adds the type to the Mime format picklist.
We have a 300 page pdf attached to a number of records on our EMu web interface. If you go to http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/db/colldb.html
and select the invertebrate zoology collection and search on catalog number 142035 - the Eunice record has the attached pdf. Don't attempt to open it from a dial-up connection you'll be there for ever.
Linda
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Smithsonian Institution
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Heidi Yefremov
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| 14-01-2006 6:51 AM |
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| We have over 1500 pdf files attached in our multimedia module right now and no problems with them. Like the above post it just shows a icon of adobe reader and when you double click on it, it will lauch the file into the adobe reader an your file will appear. |
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William Real
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| 25-01-2006 6:21 AM |
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Thanks for the information--what had been happening was I was getting error messages when trying to attach pdf's and mistakenly concluded that the file type was not supported.
I'm curious if others get this message when trying to attach files other than image files: it appears that EMu is trying to make a thumbnail, as if the file is an image file, and reports an error when I cannot do that. I believe my multimedia registry settings for automatic file derivation are correct--they specify that the incoming file should be JPG--so it seems that EMu should not be trying to make a derivative of a pdf or other type of non-image file. |
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