Xinet servers have been engineered to “talk” to OpenOffice.org software or
LibreOffice.org software
) which renders Microsoft Office documents into previews that can then be stored in the Xinet database.
Besides the Xinet database, you must also have OpenOffice.org (version 4 or later with Solr enabled) or
LibreOffice.org software installed on your server before users can preview Office files inside a Pilot. You can download a copy of
OpenOffice.org software from
http://download.openoffice.org. you can download a copy of
LibreOffice.org software from
https://www.libreoffice.org/download. It’s best to download the package on the server where you will be installing it.
Important! Only one copy of
OpenOffice.org software should be installed on your server and Solr Search must be enabled.
The officesync(8) man page provides details about the mechanisms that make these Web previews possible. For troubleshooting information,
Problems with Office Web previews.
As long as you have OpenOffice.org software or
libreoffice.org software in the right location (see
Prerequisites), the Xinet installer should take care of everything else. If you don’t intend to use the Xinet installer, however, turn to the
officesync(8) man page for details about manual installation or reinstallation.
To obtain Xinet previews for Office documents, you must enable the database on the Web volume you are using. Enabling the database on volumes provides information about that. You will also need to enable the option,
Store Office Document Previews, as well as having either
Store Small Web Preview or
Store Large Web Preview enabled, as described on
here .
As OpenOffice.org begins rendering files, it needs to have access to appropriate TrueType or Type 1 fonts in the correct repository; otherwise, it can not render documents accurately.
On Unix systems some care needs to be taken to ensure that the appropriate fonts reside in the appropriate location.
