# PDF thumbnails not showing up in List view
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109
**Category:** Report a Bug
**Created:** [October 12, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109 "2019-10-12T01:45:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Thomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michael_Thomas)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/1 "2019-10-12T01:45:39Z")
Thumnails that in PDF format do not show up in List view, but the very same does show up in Columns view.
See screenshots.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Thomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michael_Thomas)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/2 "2019-10-12T01:46:35Z")
2nd screenshot
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### Author:  [@George\_B](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_B)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/3 "2019-10-12T03:04:48Z")
Interesting. I’ve never used PDF thumbnails. So is the “image” url actually a url link to a PDF file? Are they special PDF files or do all PDF’s have a default thumbnail?
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Thomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michael_Thomas)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/4 "2019-10-12T04:39:57Z")
Yes, they are normal PDFs. The one in the screenshot is here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxrKuJkRv1M-a3JRNzkwRlYxUFE/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxrKuJkRv1M-a3JRNzkwRlYxUFE/view)
A related problem is that images hosted on Google Drive also do NOT work as thumbnails in the LIST view, but they DO work as thumbnails in every other view.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/5 "2019-10-12T13:56:41Z")
I can confirm that I have the same issue with PDF’s.
I am not seeing the same issue as you with Google Drive hosted images. My images show in list as well as other views. Maybe verify that the list is pointing to the image column.
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### Author:  [@JackVaughan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JackVaughan)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/6 "2019-10-12T17:10:36Z")
Thanks @Michael_Thomas, will pass on.
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### Author:  [@Jason](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/7 "2019-10-12T17:16:28Z")
It’s so cool when the community discovers PDFs work as images before you knew it 😛 That wasn’t on purpose. I will see what can be done about thumbnails, but the fact that they don’t work tells me our image provider probably doesn’t fully support PDF as an image.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/8 "2019-10-12T17:32:15Z")
@Jason I assumed that was a feature. Bonus! It’s so smart it’s starting to code itself. 😉
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### Author:  [@mptA1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mptA1)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/9 "2019-10-12T23:14:03Z")
oops. I made a mistake. The area where google drive images don’t show up are in Rich Text markdown. I have to use imgur instead.
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### Author:  [@spencerb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spencerb)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/10 "2020-10-14T13:40:43Z")
So, if I want PDFs to be viewable by users within my Glide app, do I just need to create a button with Web View option, and provide the link to the PDF that’s stored within my Google Drive?
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### Author:  [@SantiagoPerez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SantiagoPerez)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/11 "2020-10-14T13:48:25Z")
@spencerb,
That seems to be a way. Or you could use the thumbnail and add the web view action to it.
I hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@spencerb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spencerb)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/12 "2020-10-14T14:24:07Z")
Ok sorry, don’t see an option to use the thumbnail. Could you explain further? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@SantiagoPerez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SantiagoPerez)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/13 "2020-10-14T14:26:24Z")
If I’m not mistaken, you can display the pdf link as an image. This will work as a Thumbnail. If you display it in an inline list you can set that inline list to the web view action.
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### Author:  [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/14 "2020-10-14T18:16:43Z")
Maybe I missed this part, but did you make the pdf file viewable to all via the link. If you dont do this it will not show up.
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### Author:  [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/15 "2020-10-14T18:18:07Z")
I have a PDF employee handbook that I did it this way and made every page another cell link so my employees can swipe through each page. But each pdf had to be made public.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/16 "2020-10-14T22:12:01Z")
Have you tried using webview for your document? I think you just need one.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pdf-thumbnails-not-showing-up-in-list-view/1109/17 "2020-10-14T22:26:50Z")
This could be another option. I’ve started wrapping PDF urls in a google docs viewer url to view the pdf more nicely withing a webview component. It seems to work very well for the most part, but sometimes it’s hit or miss if the PDF actually opens. Haven’t really taken the time to figure out why.
Hope if helps.
> [@Black screen when try to enlarge image](https://community.glideapps.com/t/black-screen-when-try-to-enlarge-image/15687/19):
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> point_up_2:t2 What he said. Using https instead of http would have been my suggestion. Also maybe the ‘Open Web View’ action as an option, but I have issues with that going full zoom without the option to pinch zoom, so have used “Open Link” instead, which opens the image externally with full control to zoom. Works fine for me on android, but from what I’ve read, ‘Open Link’ isn’t as friendly with IOS devices. Haven’t tested it, so I don’t know. Just another thought for viewing external c…