Author: shaunp
Description:
Not sure if this is a PDF handler issue or mediawiki.
But I uploaded a 47 page PDF and had to click on each page, so that they were then cached and fast for everyone else.
Is there anyway this can be improved?
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
OS: Linux
jeluf wrote:
We could generate the images on upload, but then the upload would be very slow.
Or we could add a background job that generates them from the background queue. That queue is often
jeluf wrote:
... quite long and it would thus take some time before the images would be generated.
shaunp wrote:
I think adding a background job sounds like the best approach, maybe there could be a configuration option to enable or disable this?
mike wrote:
Added a background job to create thumbnails one by one in r76941.
Disabled by default to not change current behaviour. If you want to enable it, add
$wgPdfCreateThumbnailsInJobQueue = true;
to your LocalSettings.php