Easy Tricks

I've already done a thumbnail page, using DropBox, ImageMagick, bash > ls > html > css.

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Second, select a collection of files (in my case, PDF files about boardgames) and put them in a public folder within Dropbox (I've created games subfolder in public folder to do that).

Use ImageMagick to create thumbnail from files:
 (to install imagemagick in Linux use:  sudo apt-get install imagemagick)

So, to create a thumb for all files I've used following command:

for a in $(ls *.pdf); do convert -thumbnail x96 $a[0] $a.png; done

Now, it is possible create HTML from these files:

for a in $(ls *.pdf); do echo "< a href=\"$a\" class=\"image\" >< img src=\"$a.png\" /> < span class=\"text\">$a< / a >" >> file.html; done

(yes, I know... I would use sed command to change pdf extension rather than just to suffix ".png"... it's just to keep things simple :D)

Next, I've created an index file to exhibit that files. Basicly, the file  use the following css (thanx to Gabriel Ricci):

a.image
{
float: left;
display: block;
text-align: center;
margin: 5px;
}

a.image img{
display: block;
border: none;
}
a.image .text{
display: block;
width: 100px;
word-wrap: break-word;
font-size: small;
}

Done! A very fast and simple thumbnail from PDF files.

O resultado segue aqui: galeria de jogos de tabuleiro.