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Published Jun. 30, 2025

What will generate previews for PDF files, if OpenOffice is enabled? PDFBox or OpenOffice?

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Sorin Pop

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Issue

As the article at https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029131731-Server-Administration-External-Services mentions
 

PDFBox is included with Liferay DXP and generates automatic previews for certain file types (mostly PDFs). You can install two additional tools to generate previews for other file types:

 

 

My question is very simple: if OpenOffice is installed and enabled, then what will be the default behavior of Liferay when it comes to PDF preview generation? Will it still be using PDFBox or will it use Openoffice?

Environment

  • 7.1+

Resolution

  • Yes, it will still use PDFBox for this purpose. (if you enable ImageMagick, then ImageMagick will take over the task of generating previews for PDF files)
  • OpenOffice will only be used when generating previews for "office" files (doc, docx, xls, etc.)

 

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