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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="dev-thumbnailer">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="thumbnailer"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="dev-launching-desktop"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

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    <desc>Thumbnails for document-like files.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>File thumbnails</title>

  <p>If your application handles files which could be printed or could be
  represented well as a document, adding a thumbnailer makes the files show up
  in <app>Files</app> with images that correspond to the document.</p>

  <p>The gnome-desktop library defines the interface and associated files that
  a thumbnailer must implement. The component responsible for calling the
  thumbnailer is <link href="https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-desktop3/stable/GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory.html">GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory</link>.</p>

  <p>A common helper for thumbnailers, which handles the command-line parsing
  and output file generation, is <link href="">gnome-thumbnailer-skeleton</link>.</p>

</page>
