topic Document viewer in Alfresco Archive

Document viewer

harishk — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:47:18 GMT

I want to view any uploaded document as pdf when anchor link is clicked. For this problem I need to transform the document (like .doc, .xls etc) to pdf before downloading it so that it can be viewed in browser. One solution to this problem is verride DownloadContentServlet and apply transformation

Re: Document viewer

zaizi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:55:12 GMT

Check out the Thumbnail service implementation. If you look at thumbnail-service-context.xml, you'll see examples for doc -> png (various sizes) and doc -> flash. You can create one that is doc -> pdf. You can use the thumbnail webscript (thumbnail.get.*) to get your custom thumbnail. Or just use the webscript as your download link. Modify the UI to include this link.

Re: Document viewer

harishk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:26:54 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion, but I am still facing problem.
I changed UI link to point to "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/path/workspace/SpacesStore/9c3862c9-f85b-4380-b47b-688352a00ec4/content/thumbnails/previewpdf?c=force".
But it is giving 500 server error. When I did debugging, I found that reader object is null because of contentProperty. I don't know what property it is referring to and how to set it as I am newbe to alfresco.

I want a pdf version of the content(document) should be opened when I click on above link. :?

Re: Document viewer

harishk — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:57:21 GMT

Problem is resolved as I used "path" instead of "node" in "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/path/workspace/SpacesStore/9c3862c9-f85b-4380-b47b-688352a00ec4/content/thumbnails/previewpdf?c=force" URL.
Correct URL is "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/9c3862c9-f85b-4380-b47b-688352a00ec4/content/thumbnails/previewpdf?c=force".

Thanks for your help.

Re: Document viewer

gangadharjwala — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:04:00 GMT

Hi team,

here the client requirement is they want to edit the document or pdf in alfresco with out using googledocs because the users systems they don't have the internet connection to edit the Document.

So they want view a document in browser with out net connection in the system.

so can u please help me out how can i edit the document or pdf programmatically or is there any way to do the same.