Update documentation about how to create thumbnail image from poster PDF

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 - Host poster PDF files on ptrace.gafam.info
 - LQDN shared the German PDF file variant. Santé!
+- Update documentation about how to create thumbnail image from poster PDF


 2018-01-14 0.4.0

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    open ./htdocs/index.html

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+Create thumbnail image from poster PDF
+======================================
+::
+
+    # Just a workbench
+    mkdir tmp; cd tmp
+
+    # Acquire PDF file
+    wget https://ptrace.gafam.info/upstream/pdf/lqdn-gafam-poster-de.pdf
+
+    # Layout multiple pages in matrix
+    pdfnup --nup 2x3 --landscape=true --no-tidy lqdn-gafam-poster-de.pdf
+
+    # Convert to GIF format appropriately
+    convert -units PixelsPerInch lqdn-gafam-poster-de-nup.pdf -density 72 -trim +repage -resize 595x gafam-german-card.gif
+
+    # Copy to target directory
+    cp gafam-german-card.gif ../htdocs/static/img/
+