Generating Object Thumbnails 

Use

Sometimes, it may be necessary to manually generate the thumbnail of an image or PDF object. For example, MDM will not have generated the thumbnail if an image or PDF was imported into the repository through the MDM APIs, if Adobe Acrobat wasn’t installed when a PDF was first imported, or if the image file format wasn’t recognized when an image was first imported.

You can quickly locate all of the objects whose thumbnail needs to be generated by sorting on the Image or PDF column in the Records pane (when the Images or PDFs table is the current table) and selecting records with the No Thumbnail icon.

Procedure

To manually generate the thumbnail for one or more objects:

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       1.      In the Records pane, select the record(s) whose thumbnails you want to generate.

       2.      Right-click on one of the records and choose Generate Thumbnail from the context menu, or choose Objects ® Generate Thumbnail from the main menu.

       3.      MDM opens the Generating Thumbnails progress dialog to indicate the status as it generates the thumbnail for each of the images.