topic Re: previewing documents in Alfresco Archive

previewing documents

alfhenry — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:57:56 GMT

In my Document Library, I have different kinds of documents (.doc, .txt, .pdf…etc). The "Preview" feature only works for pdf and image file types, I have openoffice headless integrated, both swftools and ImageMagick installed. For other types of content the following notification is displayed: "This

Re: previewing documents

jrcole — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:06:57 GMT

I'm having the same problem with AF 3.0.1 enterprise…

Re: previewing documents

nbcmah — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:14:14 GMT

look at the alfreco.log, OpenOffice (soffice) is in the wrong directory.

It is in ALFRESCOHOME\OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice,
but should be in ALFRESCOHOME\openoffice\openoffice.org.

You must just create the ALFRESCOHOME\openoffice\openoffice.org
an copy the all files from ALFRESCOHOME\OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice
into the new directory.

Further you start soffice before you restart alfreco,
because you have to agree the GPL and you will be asked if you want to registered…

Re: previewing documents

alfhenry — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:57:53 GMT

Ok, I looked at my alfresco.log and looks like openoffice did started up(meaing no [ERROR] entries)
I also checked that port 8100 is being listen to.

-bash-3.2# netstat -anp |grep 8100
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8100              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      13933/soffice.bin
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8100              127.0.0.1:33554             ESTABLISHED 13933/soffice.bin
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:33554      ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8100       ESTABLISHED 13778/java

Still can't preview documents.