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    Scrubber Thumbnails for HTML Articles - How Do You Get them to Actually Appear?!?!?

    bfento Community Member
    bfento Oct 3, 2013 12:00 PM

      Hi Gang,

       

      My apologies if I asked this last month, but it's really driving me nuts.

       

      The cover of our magazine is an HTML article, and it appears as a blank screen in both the TOC and BROWSE modes. The former is easy to fix by simply creating a thumb image and inserting it via Indesign or the Folio Producer. It's the browse mode that is the conundrum. I've followed the following instructions provided by ADOBE and updated my HTML article but to no avail.

       

       

      Creating scrubber thumbnails for HTML articles

       

          

      For InDesign articles, the viewer automatically generates the thumbnails that appear when you drag the scrubber. However, generating thumbnails for HTML articles takes more time, sometimes resulting in poorly rendered thumbnails. To improve thumbnail performance in HTML articles, you can manually add image files to the HTML article folders.

      Create png files that are named "scrubberthumbnail_h.png" and "scrubberthumbnail_v.png" (you can also use _l and _p suffixes). Add these files to the HTML article folder. There is no size restriction for these images, but note that they are scaled down proportionally to a height of 166 pixels. As a point of reference, when thumbnails are generated, landscape thumbnails are 221x166 pixels, and portrait thumbnails are 125x166 pixels.

       

      What am I doing wrong? My folio is portrait (vertical)-only and I put my .png filed named "scrubberthumbnail_v.png" in the parent directory (same level as the "cover_v.html" file targetted) of the HTML article. Should it be put somehwere else in the article folder?

       

      I'm hoping there is a simply solution.

       

      Thanks in advance!