what is a good way to create thumbnail view of book documents?

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From: Johannes Buchmann
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:11

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Hi,
I am looking for a way to crate a document with thumbnail-pics of each page of a book-file

right now i export each page (of each file) as pdf, and then I place them to another file - scaled to thumbnail-size

if it only worked it'd be fine, but - it is a 80-page-magazin and indesign is crashing again and again while placing the pdfs - and i cant figure out why - sometimes after 60 pages, after 20 or even 10 - so I cant blame it on one specific page...

Is anyone doing something similar? There should be a way (see the OffTopic @Bottom)...

Thanks
Johannes

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offTopic! - dont read this :)
I saved a 80-page-PDF as .jpg with acrobat, and importing the jpg's was fine - then i tried to do this with VB but I faced:

Runtime-Error : '429'
       ActiveX component can't create object

tried 'GetObject', 'CreateObject' an tried 'New' I got Acrobat 5.0, and created a reference to the TypeLibrary nothing - Google: much questions like mine - no answer... [VB6, WIN2k])

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