topic Preview generation with LibreOffice does not work! in Alfresco Forum

Preview generation with LibreOffice does not work!

hal — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:36:09 GMT

Running Alfresco Community Edition v5.2.0 on Linux - i know this question was asked several times before, but the final solution - if LibreOffice is running properly - does not work for me. So: i fixed everything to run LibreOffice headless (installed Nightly 6.1.x, because due to a bug in LibreOffi

Re: Preview generation with LibreOffice does not work!

hal — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:00:25 GMT

I would try to fix this myself, if anyone could point me to some direction where to look at in the source - or is this done in the closed-source part of Alfresco? Grepping through the source-code didn't help me much, so far 😞 ...

Re: Preview generation with LibreOffice does not work!

hal — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:29:03 GMT

So, now it suddenly works: if i prevent LibreOffice from starting through the ctl script (during alfresco startup), alfresco seems to start it itself. So, it seems the only necessary fix was installing LibreOffice 6.1 ...

I feel a little stupid and confused. Sorry for the hassle ...

Re: Preview generation with LibreOffice does not work!

kgastaldo — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:45:30 GMT

Hey Harald - Glad things are working now. I'll mark this post as answered, but hopefully someone can chime in with an idea about why it wasn't working before ...