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Configuring Excel preview to be more accurate?

sscbrian — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:46:13 GMT

Wondering if there's a configuration option available to do more accurate Excel document previews. Under our old system (SharePoint), Excel documents previewed looking like Excel. In Alfresco/OpenOffice though, they preview looking like PDF/text documents. Is there a way to configure OO to show s

Re: Configuring Excel preview to be more accurate?

angelborroy — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:32:11 GMT

Alfresco uses PDF.js for preview: every document is transformed to PDF in order to show it on the browser. There is no other option out-of-the-box. However, you can develop your own extension (maybe based on your previous SharePoint web client) to include any web previewer. Some samples can be found at https://github.com/share-extras/media-viewers

Re: Configuring Excel preview to be more accurate?

mrogers — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:13:42 GMT

Another option if you are using alfresco enterprise is the alfresco transformation server.

Re: Configuring Excel preview to be more accurate?

angelborroy — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 06:35:18 GMT

Mark,

Transformation Server includes a custom html previewer? Or it's just a better transformation due to be performed by Microsoft software?

Thanks