Image generation of AbiWord files

Hi everyone,

I'm new to AbiWord so please correct me if I make a mistake :-).
Yesterday I had the idea to show little thumbnails of the templates in
the 'New from template' dialog.

Since I have no experience with contribing to AbiWord and have none to
little experience with C++ it looks like a nice challange and
oppertunity to give something to AbiWord.

I discussed this little bit with uwog and he suggested that I could give
a try and let other people know of what my idea is. I've opened an RFE
bug[1] for it with some mockups and a detailed description.

uwog noted that there is already some code available to generate PNG
images of the first page of an AbiWord document. I'd like to know where
it is located and how I can use it.

Further, I'd like to receive your thoughts on this idea and every
suggestion is welcome :-)

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
 Michiel

[1] http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8486