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

[Raymond Naseef]

MS Word now has the ability to save as PDF.  At MSU, they had us require
PDF documents in the online application for handling this scenario (this is
not a Sakai Project).  We looked at using Open Office, but the results were
not that good.

Good Luck,
Ray


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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