topic Thumbnails not working with PDF / DOC in Alfresco Archive

Thumbnails not working with PDF / DOC

goldmar — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:54:11 GMT

Hello!This problem is driving me nuts for real. We are trying out Alfresco at our company and I want to get thumbnails to work in Alfresco Share. The funny thing is that thumbnails work for JPGs and PNGs. The SWF preview works for all documents (including PDF and DOC). Also, I've tested that I can c

Re: Thumbnails not working with PDF / DOC

gnyce — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:25:52 GMT

Am no expert, but this seems to be part of the problem:

Caused by: java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:10.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

Do you have Xorg running on this box? What happens when you kill it/run in console/cmd-line mode? Alternatively, what if you edit the alfresco.sh startup script and set the java.awt.headless=true?

http://www.hell0w0rld.co.cc/2009/02/jfreechart/
Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the
DISPLAY variable.
java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server
using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

After researching with Mr.Google, the solution for this is you have to set your JAVA_OPTS variable with

-Djava.awt.headless=true

or http://livinginjava.blogspot.com/2008/10/javaawtheadless.html

Re: Thumbnails not working with PDF / DOC

goldmar — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:35:14 GMT

Am no expert

No, you're a genius!

This is the solution! Thank you!

PS. I think the headless option should already be preconfigured in Alfresco though. Or at least there should be something in the wiki about this.