Dear Judith,

For each Rendition you can create thumbnails (192 x 192 pixels), put them in the subdirectory where you put all thumbnails (and add it to the database blobfield)

and attach the thumbnail to the rendition. We use this method for all kinds of documents like MsWord (doc), Adobe Reader files (pdf), Web (html) and short movies (mgp/avi/mov).  We always add some short explaining text to the thumbnail. Adobe Reader is very handy as it allow you to combine pictures and text, searching etc. Files with al lot of pictures are very small compared to Word documents with embedded pictures.

Best regards,

André Straatman

Registrar

Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands

 

 

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Van: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Scheiber, Judith
Verzonden: dinsdag 5 september 2006 11:09
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Onderwerp: adding hyperlinks

 

Thank you for this helpful instruction adding hyperlinks to a TMS object o.s.; My further question is: has anyone experienced how to show the difference between the digital documents - i.e. the symbol for all digital documents is by default this black-silver disk, but I do not have any idea, what information is hidden behind this symbol when I see it on my view, only when opening it! Can you replace this default symbol for different digital documents?

 

Thank you for help

Kind regards

 

Judith Scheiber Dahou

 

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