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icon5.gif   Attachments and images of attachments, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Nov 23 11:53:22 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Attachments and images of attachments, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Nov 23 12:32:14 2009 
       icon14.gif   Re: Attachments and images of attachments, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Nov 23 13:17:53 2009 
Message ID: 66627     Entry time: Mon Nov 23 13:17:53 2009     In reply to: 66626
Icon: Agree  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.7-2266 
Subject: Re: Attachments and images of attachments 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I attached a 12 page (22kB) pdf file - no images - to an entry, but elog only converted the first 8 pages to
> > images (.png).  This is reproducable, i.e. a different small multipage pdf file produced the same number of images.
> > 
> > The size of the pdf file does not seem to be a problem, a single page pdf file with a lot of images in it
> > attached as expected.
> > 
> > Is this correct, or a defined limitation?
> 
> This is a defined limitation. Sometimes people attach whole books in PDF form to an entry, and you don't want to end up 
> with hundreds of images cluttering your browser. If you want to see the full document, just load it into your PDF viewer.

Thanks, Stefan (why is this answer down under my name!?)

I couldn't find reference to this in the documentation.  In the case I referred to, I'll have to play with the pdf so that
the six pages I actually want displayed are.
ELOG V3.1.5-fe60aaf