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PDFThumbnailer not working for ppt files which were saved as pdf

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
computer-graphics

Research direction

Reproduce the problem with a single-slide PDF exported from PowerPoint, then inspect PDFThumbnailer and the imagesFitPage methods that return false. Compare that path with the successful behavior when the result is forced to true; done means the PDFThumbnailer creates the expected thumbnail without that workaround.

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Description

I tried to create a thumbnail with the PDFThumbnailer of an pdf file which was created by PowerPoint exporting one slide.

I debugged the code and the imagesFitPage methods returned false.
If a changed that result to true (while debugging) the thumbnail was created correctly.

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Java
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