By very popular demand we present Image Thumbnailing in messages and comments. We have image thumbnails in Campfire, Highrise, and Backpack, so it’s great to finally bring it to Basecamp. This has been one of the top feature requests for quite some time.

How does it work?

Here’s an example of what it looks like:

In this example I’ve uploaded 4 separate images.

A couple of quick notes: This only works on GIF, JPG, and PNG files. We may support additional image formats in the future. The images will not be thumbnailed on the files tab, but they will be listed as files just as they always have. This feature also only works if you use Basecamp file storage – it will not work if you use your own FTP server for file storage. Finally, images you’ve already uploaded will not be thumbnailed retroactively – this feature is only available for images uploaded from now on.

We hope you like it! Thanks for your continued support.

SWEET!! Hope to review it soon.

Thanks JF + Crew.

Michael.

Our pleasure. Enjoy!

Hehe, we just noticed this on one of our design presentation message posts. Client was very impressed.

Thanks.

Excellent, I’ve been waiting for this one too. Thanks!

why cant it also be on the files page?

JESS3.com, it may be on the files page eventually but for now it’s just on the messages and comments pages.

The files page will require a more extensive redesign to make the thumbnails fit properly. The messages and comments page didn’t require a redesign—we could just pop the images down under the message.

I like it. See I actually like most of what you guys do :)

Cool! although.. Doh! swapping back to using basecamp storage rather then using my own now :)

Huh. Neat. Thanks, this was unexpected and cool.

Great. Launched on day of five day photo shoot and so we are testing it now. Thank you

Looks like a very nice feature. But unfortunately I fear we will never get to use it because we absolutely must use our own file storage. Do you think that you may be able to make it work with FTP in the future? We would have NO [edit – how can i miss that – changes the whole meaning] worries about you FTP-ing a thumbnail onto our server with every image we upload.

Thanks for the continual inprovements anyhow!

Thank you!

That’s another feature crossed off my wish list :)

Thank crew! Yesterday a client talk me about that…

Great! Thank you.

I love it. Thanks!

As noted above: Great stuff, thanks much.

Great new feature – now what would make it extremely useful is to have it work with PDF files too!

have i told you lately how much you rock? thanks for the functionality.

I’m in the same boat as Findel. We use our own server for file storage. Could you get this to put thumbs on accounts such as ours as well?

great feature. double ping on the pdf request.

x 2 on additional file support like pdfs (we use ‘em a lot).

:)

what would make it extremely useful is to have it work with PDF files too!

Unfortunately this is a no can do for security reasons. Postscript files (which is what PDFs are) have a specific weakness where someone can embed a program in the file and launch executables on an end-user system without the end user’s knowledge.

This isn’t a problem if you just upload a PDF because we don’t open the files, but when we thumbnail an image a program has to open the image to resize it. Opening the file can trigger the malicious code.

While this has been fixed by Adobe in Acrobat Reader v 7.0.5+, there are a lot of people out there using an older version of Reader. We’re not yet comfortable exposing this potential security issue to our customers.

It’s those damn bad people! They ruin the party for everyone.

Read more on Adobe’s site if you’re interested.

Ah, thanks for the explanation Jason. I know they show up as thumbnails on Entourage for our designers so I figured it was a fairly simple thing to do.

You may have just made Basecamp now the most progressive and focused app for working on the web making the web via the web!! My only complaint all these years has been this lack of visual reference that is so central to web design projects, which is 90% of what I do. Just yesterday after using you guys personally for my consulting work over the years since your app was in beta, I just purchased a business account for my department of 20 here at work… when introducing it to all here who haven’t used it before I listed my complaint again…. no thumbnails of images, just nice icons of file types, but otherwise a great KISS group hub for all our 30+ projects.

THANK YOU!!!