[Building Sakai] possible to preview word doc in CLE?

[Steve Swinsburg]

If you just wanted a preview of the document, you could use something like what DSpace does and generate a preview image of it. Though I'm guessing you want more than just the first page. Alternatively, hook up the Open Office server and process them that way, perhaps turning them into RTF or PDF for a preview.

cheers,
Steve


On 30/01/2013, at 10:15 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> This is functionality that could for sure be developed. 
> There were two versions of the Sakai OAE preview processor. An older ruby script [1] that would pull new documents when they were uploaded from the server, use Open/Libre Office (on some machine, that was slightly difficult to get running [2]) and post back preview images. These preview images would be displayed by the UX.
> 
> There was a newer preview processor that also needed Open Office but was written in Java and listened for events posted by the server. [3]
> 
> Sakai CLE currently passes events with the ClusterEventService which is pretty inefficient and would require linking up some service like this to the database, or having some rest endpoint provide the new documents in the system (as the old ruby method did). Then you'd have to have someone build in the UI for displaying the previews into the resources tool. Neither of these would be a trivial task and something that made OAE really cool.
> 
> At this point you'd have to weigh the cost of this (developing a processor, possibly switching the event processing to MQ, and integrating preview and sending documents into the Resources tool) against something like an integration with Crocodoc (which would also give collaboration/markup) or Scrib/Google Drive.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/sakaiproject/nakamura/tree/master/scripts
> [2] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75667933
> [3] https://github.com/sakaiproject/preview-processor
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> One of the nice features of the OAE is the ability to preview Word documents without downloading it.  I'm sure this is a naive question, but I'm curious if this is possible to implement in the CLE? It might be nice to have in a grading interface for either Assignments or SAMigo (Please don't read anything into this question in terms of committing to doing it!) or to have it in Resources.
> 
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Stanford University, Academic Computing Services
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