Rescaling Featured Image AR problem

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by Nigel Lew, Sep 15, 2016.

  1. #1
    Hi folks. I need to resolve something before I proceed. My issue is here..

    http://www.jnlew.com/clients/d/

    issue is I have to auto generate a thumb from the first page of a pdf file. I am a tad closer but the issue is the pdf image that gets generated is 618 × 865

    The home page has an entirely different aspect ratio or 405 x 225 hence I am chopping too much off the top of it. I have about 100 of these and I am not about to open each pdf and manually make a thumbnail.

    This seems to be all I have to work with.

    .portfolio-thumb img{vertical-align:bottom;width:100% ;height:auto;}

    Anyone have any thoughts here. I surprised I got this mess to work in the first place. The theme is 6 years old.

    thanks,
    Nigel

    Edit: actually I am not even sure that is inherently fixable. Its still a square peg in a round hole issue. I suspect I may have to just download the entire image folder and batch crop them with a photoshop action.
     
    Last edited: Sep 15, 2016
    Nigel Lew, Sep 15, 2016 IP
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    hdewantara Well-Known Member

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    Hi.
    But when you go inside a portfolio, the there is a screenshot of the 1st page of the PDF. It's captured by your PDFJS (or PDF.JS ?) as <canvas> HTML element and seems to have the right width / height proportion. Can't that be used as a thumb in homepage?
     
    hdewantara, Sep 16, 2016 IP
  3. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Unfortunately no. That is an actual pdf rendered inside a viewer.

    N.
     
    Nigel Lew, Sep 16, 2016 IP