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gsf-office-thumbnailer

GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)					       GNOME						 GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)

NAME

       gsf-office-thumbnailer - office files thumbnailer for the GNOME desktop

SYNOPSIS

       gsf-office-thumbnailer [OPTIONS] infile outfile

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the gsf-office-thumbnailer command.

       gsf-office-thumbnailer is used internally by GNOME applications such as nautilus to generate thumbnails of several types of office applica-
       tion files. While it is possible to invoke it manually, it is usually invoked automatically by nautilus.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash  (`-')  and  longer  options
       starting with two dashes (`--').

   Main options
       -i, --input=filename
	      Name of file for which to create a thumbnail

       -o, --output=filename
	      Name of the file in which to store the thumbnail

       -s, --size=N
	      Size of thumbnail in pixels; the thumbnail will be at most N*N pixels large.

   Help options
       -?, --help
	      Display a brief usage message

LICENSE

       gsf-office-thumbnailer  is licensed under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by the Free
       Software Foundation. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page
       <http://www.gnu.org/>.

AUTHOR

       gsf-office-thumbnailer's primary author is Federico Mena-Quintero <federico@novell.com>.

       The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.

gsf								  August 17, 2005					 GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)

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