Enable document and PDF previews in Nextcloud

manxam

Seeing as how many of you use Nextcloud (thank you @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch for your work on the deployment script), how does one get document previews to work?
Libreoffice is installed and my config.php contains:

  'preview_libreoffice_path' => '/usr/bin/libreoffice',
  'enabledPreviewProviders' => array(
        'OC\Preview\PNG',
        'OC\Preview\JPEG',
        'OC\Preview\GIF',
        'OC\Preview\BMP',
        'OC\Preview\XBitmap',
        'OC\Preview\MP3',
        'OC\Preview\TXT',
        'OC\Preview\MarkDown',
        'OC\Preview\MSOffice2003',
        'OC\Preview\MSOffice2007',
        'OC\Preview\MSOfficeDoc',
        'OC\Preview\OpenDocument',
        'OC\Preview\PDF',
  ),

Yet whenever I click on an doc/docx, xls/xlsx, or pdf I'm prompted to download instead of providing me a preview.

The logs don't appear to contain any errors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

manxam

Searched the interwebs and, it appears, that Nextcloud's idea of a "preview" is, in fact, a thumbnail. Only PDF files will actually display a true "preview" when using the built-in PDF viewer app.

I guess this won't work. I was hoping for more

https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/issues/710