How does everyone handle multi-page media documents? If you have a 5 page letter, do you create 5 different media objects and just give them all the same citation? Do you combine them in an image editor into one big image?
Thought? Best practices?
A 5 page letter I would combine into a PDF. If it was a 2 page document, a marriage record as an example, I would create a single image to add to the citation.
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A five page letter I would store in a pdf and put that pdf into a media object. A two-sided postcard I would store front and back page as an image into one media object. Whenever I manipulate an image, for example colorize an old black-and-white photo, I store the original and the manipulated image together into one media object. At least GEDCOM allows that, I’m not sure if Gramps supports that in the meantime.
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don’t you mind that pdf’s aren’t showing thumbnails or previews?
For multipage pdf’s I mostly convert them into jpg’s (one jpg for each page) and use them in gramps.
This is why we are hoping for a thumbnailer plugin for PDFs to emerge. (Hopefully with a Page number choice for the thumbnail.)
I use. pdf2jpg Which is free, gives good results, doesn’t use my originals. But has a 2mb PDF limit.
And they promise to plant a tree for every 50.000 pdf’s they did
Would I like a thumbnail pdf preview. Yes. But for a multipage letter, I feal the PDF is the way to handle it. Especially as the pdf/letter will probably be added to an individual’s gallery tab.
A multipage document I would add as induvial page images. These are more often than not added to a citation. An example is a Sons of the American Revolution application. Each page is added to the citation’s gallery, and the citation is added to a membership event.
And an example of a two page document where I have combined the front and back into a single image.
