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Pretty Preview transformer for source code?

nickburch — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:41:46 GMT

Does anyone know of an examples of content transformers for giving pretty previews in Share for source code?Currently, some source code types are recognised by Alfresco as plain text (eg Java files), and you get a basic Share preview via OpenOffice and PDF2SWF. Other source code types are correctly

Re: Pretty Preview transformer for source code?

wabson — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:54:24 GMT

Hi Nick, did you try the Share Extras add-on already? There is a screenshot on the wiki page, or check out trunk and try it out directly (a new release is coming in the next few days).

From http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/MediaViewers

<blockquote>Prettify allows formatted code, mark-up and other supported text formats to be displayed in directly in the document and uses <a href="https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/">google-code-prettify<a/> to provide an in-line browser-based view with syntax highlighting.</blockquote>

I'd be interested in your feedback on this highlighting lib plus any MIME types you think may be missing.

Cheers,
Will

Re: Pretty Preview transformer for source code?

nickburch — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:03:02 GMT

Ah, I'd missed that in my google searching. Looks just what I needed, thanks, I'll give it a whirl shortly!