papers-thumbnailer(1)
💖 papers-thumbnailer — the manual, but make it cute
okay so bestie, welcome to papers-thumbnailer, the tiny little icon-maker from the Papers crew. it's a manual page for a General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving "short but iconic." let's get into it. 🎀
✨ NAME ✨
papers-thumbnailer — create png thumbnails from PDF, DjVu, TIFF documents and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7)
like. it literally makes the little preview picture. that's the whole job. and it ate. 💅
🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸
papers-thumbnailer [-s size] input outputso you hand it an input, you hand it an output, and if you're feeling spicy you throw a -s in there with a size. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🦋
💜 DESCRIPTION 💜
papers-thumbnailer is a GNOME program that creates thumbnails from PDF, DjVu, TIFF documents and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).
no cap, that's the entire personality. it takes your documents and your comic archives, and it makes the little preview images so your file manager doesn't just show you a sad grey rectangle. main character energy, honestly. 👑
🌈 OPTIONS 🌈
papers obeys all normal GNOME and GTK+ command line options — so all your usual faves are still valid, she's not gonna fight you on those. 🫶
but there's exactly one option that belongs to this page, and here she is:
-ssize — lets you pick the vertical size of the thumbnail that gets created. vertical, bestie. the height. that one. ✨
ngl it's a short list. one (1) option. and she serves. periodt. 💀
🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋
papers(1)— the big sibling, go say hi 👋- https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ — the website, it's literally right there 🌐
okay and before you go — the GNOME girlies dropped this one on 2025-04-22, and that's the General Commands Manual energy we're signing off on. stay slay, go make some thumbnails. 🎀💖✨
📦 where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: papers-doc 50.2-r0 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- arch rolling: papers 51.1-1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- centos-stream 10: papers-thumbnailer 48.7-3.el10 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND Zlib AND libtiff AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- debian trixie: papers 48.3-1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 43: papers-thumbnailer 49.1-2.fc43 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND libtiff AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND Unicode-3.0 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- fedora 43: papers-thumbnailer 49.8-1.fc43 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND libtiff AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND Unicode-3.0 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- fedora 44: papers-thumbnailer 49.3-2.fc44 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND libtiff AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND Unicode-3.0 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- fedora 44: papers-thumbnailer 49.8-1.fc44 · GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND libtiff AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND Unicode-3.0 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- nixos 26.05: papers 50.3
- nixpkgs unstable: papers 50.2
- opensuse-leap 16.0: papers 48.10-160000.1.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: papers 48.10-160000.1.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: papers 48.10-160000.1.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: papers 48.10-160000.1.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: papers 50.1-0ubuntu1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: papers 50.1-0ubuntu1.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: papers 50.2-0ubuntu0.1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: papers 51.0-0ubuntu1 · GPL-2.0-or-later
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