Getting pdf thumbnails

Is there a way to get page thumbnails from a PDF without using the PDFThumbnailView. I just want to be able to scroll to a page in a PDFView and grab a thumbnail for that current page.

Your first statement is incorrect.  Acrobat hasn't generated embedded thumbnails of pages since version 6.
You mention, CopyToClipboard(), which implies to me that you are trying to do this through the COM interfaces - those are going to be slower than working with the plugin interfaces, but plugins require C/C++.  If you do stick with COM, then you should look at the drawing interfaces used by the Static and Active samples in the SDK - those will be much faster than copy to clipboard.

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