Insert PDF Thumbnail into Editor

[tomauger]

[38949] is awesome, but the next logical move is to allow content editors to easily insert the PDF thumbnail into the Editor upon Insert Media.

There will need to be a UI for allowing the content editor to choose whether to insert the image or the textual link. The easiest place for this to live without a major UI overhaul would be in the Insert Media workflow itself.

In fact the "Size" pull-down menu doesn't really do anything right now for PDFs, so it would be a good place to add an option "Document Link Only", and then honour the other sizes when selected and actually insert the image.

[tomauger]

Screenshot of the current Insert Media UI showing the Image Size control that could be used to control whether to insert the generated image or the document link only

[kirasong]

I'd love to see this.

[knutsp]

This is close to being a bug because of the displayed Attachment Display Settings box being displayed. It creates the impression that an image will be inserted into the post, not just the title with link.

[joemcgill]

#39876 was marked as a duplicate.

[dpruth001]

Agreed! The Attachment Display Settings box makes it appear that a user should be able to insert an image size of their choice.

Replying to knutsp:

This is close to being a bug because of the displayed Attachment Display Settings box being displayed. It creates the impression that an image will be inserted into the post, not just the title with link.

[bobbyr2]

This feature would be complete if thumbnails could be inserted in the post. Actually, I see it as the main reason why we need thumbnails to be generated. Any plan soon to implement this?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #41279

[gmariani405]

Any update on this? This would be a VERY useful feature.

[retrocool]

Yeah, I'm pretty amazed this hasn't been implemented. I just spent ages persuading imagemagick to automatically create thumbnails of my PDFs, and then I have no option to get them on the public website? That's actually pretty weird.

The hard work - getting the thumbnails from the PDFs - had been done.

It's a feature I would use on loads of my sites if it worked properly.