Allow PDFs as card image in Base

Use case or problem

For collections of notes with embedded PDF documents, to be able to display the first page (or selectable page, and/or a scrollable window of many pages) of the PDF indicated in a frontmatter key as cards in a Base.

Proposed solution

Similar to the new 1.9.3 cards feature that displays an image.
Ideally, indicate the page number to display, like “[[PDFfile.pdf#page=3]]”

Current workaround (optional)

None.

Related feature requests (optional)

None found.

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I’d love this, too.

I have a large collection of research “reviews” where each note contains detailed notes, excerpts, and quotes from library books. Almost all of them link to a file, a scan of the physical book, and I’ve been thrilled to have quickly figured out how to write a formula to get a link to the “scan” file. However, only those which happen to be a PNG or JPG are able to be displayed as a cover.

It’d be great to be able to use pdf files with the image function!

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