topic Re: MS Office 2007/2010 preview crashes openoffice process in Alfresco Archive

MS Office 2007/2010 preview crashes openoffice process

ericnk — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:26:48 GMT

Hi,We are currently evaluating alfresco 3.4.e. In our tests we've come across a minor deficiency with the openoffice version being used for the preview of Microsoft Office 2007/2010 documents. When a user uploads and attempts to preview a MS Office 2003 or earlier version document, everything work

Re: MS Office 2007/2010 preview crashes openoffice process

loftux — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:33:36 GMT

You can do that yourself. Just install the latest version of either Open Office or LibreOffice that your OS supports.
Then update /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties and the
ooo.exe=/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
(the path above is what I use for libreoffice)

Not, if you are using LibreOffice, you get an exception whe Alfresco queries for version info, that error can just be ignored.

Re: MS Office 2007/2010 preview crashes openoffice process

ericnk — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:49:55 GMT

Loftux,

Thank you for your comments. In fact, we have decided to do that. It does solve the problem after all.

Best Regards,

Eric