Hi Softmakers,
After some digging I realized that I have to bring my question here.
Is there a way to be able to see a preview or a thumbnail of a document? I use KDE and Dolphin is my file manager.
On openSUSE forum they suggest that I install Calligra Suite but they are not sure that the Calligra thumbnailer would support .docx
Would appreciate help.
Kind regards
Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
Re: Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
Yes. If you install Caligra and then in Dolphin you go to General => Previews you can activate previews for MS Office Documents, as well for LibreOffice/OpenDocument.
Re: Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
Thank you @lgsl for the reply.
Edit: I did install calligra, made sure the Dolphin settings had the previews on and rebooted. But there are no previews. Is this a bug? Is there a conflict somewhere!?
I wonder if it would be possible that SoftMaker team can implement in a thumbnailer/preview feature so we don't have to install calligra?!
Thanks in advance.
Re: Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
Thank you for your suggestion which I have forwarded to product management...
Re: Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
This feature (or at least for me) is a bit buggy. Dolphin can take a sweet time rendering the thumbnail depending on the size and complexity of the document. That's why I think, it's turned off by default.
LibreOffice goes arround this issue with a different approach (at least for odt). It pre-generates an thumbnail/image of the document. Perhaps Text Maker could come up with something like this.
Re: Thumbnailer support for .docx .xlsx
Thank you for your reply.lgsl wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:03 pmThis feature (or at least for me) is a bit buggy. Dolphin can take a sweet time rendering the thumbnail depending on the size and complexity of the document. That's why I think, it's turned off by default.
LibreOffice goes arround this issue with a different approach (at least for odt). It pre-generates an thumbnail/image of the document. Perhaps Text Maker could come up with something like this.
Couple of days ago, suddenly Dolphin was showing thumbnails but after a restart, it stopped. Glitch maybe!