Open Source Document Management System | OpenKM

Dear All,
I got OpenKM 6.3.4 CE installed on an Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS machine. Everything seems working fine,
but I can't preview PDF or open office documents. I have read through the forums and it seems that for
some reasons there are some services not starting.
As suggested elsewhere I checked if I have soffice on this path /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/ and yes,
it is there together with many others.
I suppose this is something very easy for those who know how to do it, but I don't.
I don't know where to start, any suggestions?
Regards,
VV

Now I figured it out! Everything installed properly and the services worked fine as well, but the community edition
requires Adobe Flash Player to work which in the case of Opera needs a special installation and activation.
After installing AFP and configuring Opera correctly the preview started to work just fine.
I was confused because at work AFP is not needed, but then I read that the professional version uses a different
way of rendering the preview.
So, I decided to write this here in case somebody else is confused as I was.
Regards,
VV

You are in truth. Preview is based in flowpaper ( older flexpaper ) and we can not include by licensing reasons the licensed version what comes into OpenKM. Unfortunately now flowpaper only offers community version in flash player mode. The only improvement we have thought might be done and have sense is to applying changes in source code for what user who will be interested in buying a license of flowpaper.

May be out of topics, flash is dying (adobe is stopping support in near future too), is there any plan to change ?

Did you know any preview tool like flowpaper ( previsouly was named flexpaper ) what allow previewing PDF document with HTML5 ? because this is the point, flowpaper only allows flash for community version ( in professional we have a licensed version what allows HTML5 preview, but we can not release it to the community version for license restrictions ). We are open for suggestions about it.

If I could find anything like that, openkm community will be the first one to be informed ^^

have done some google, how about this:

http://viewerjs.org/

There have been some time I didn't do web development (and never do node.js development), will try in the near future.

Alex

Seems promising, do you want to work with us with the integration of this viewer into community version ?
I can give you the clues - classes - involved with the previsualization ? Really the logic is ... we try to convert everything to PDF and then we preview it, in almost cases this is the logic.

If you can not work on it, open an issue in our github project https://github.com/openkm/document-management-system with this previewer and we'll try to investigate it.

I have not been writing codes for more than 10 years (even I was, I develop linux device drivers) and believe that I can't help much. Anyway will do little experiment for java / node.js hybrid later.

Sure will open an issue after reviewing more previewing tools.

Pleaes, open the issue and we'll take a look on it.

Done ^^.