Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24888
Wishlist: Quick Viewer Of Documents
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:51 UTC
Sorry about these file manager issues, but the user community is asking for some things that are a part of OO and wouldn't work on a regular file manager. WordPerfect allowed you to run a small applet that would open when you clicked on "View" and you could click into the files one by one and it would show you a the first page only of the document. This is used to see what the documents look like before you open them, sometimes they are very large documents and they just want to see the first page. This works in the same way that OO lets you insert graphics, by giving you a small panel on the right to show you what the graphic looks like. Attaching a shot of WP running in Xwindows and how it worked before.
Created attachment 12775 [details] 1 page quicker viewer, displaying first page of documents.
Created attachment 12776 [details] Proposed mockup of dialog box for quick viewing documents
Reassigned to BH
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Still a desired feature, not in 3.0
It appears this code is already in OOo. In the Base module you can seen previews of the forms which are themselves just documents. If this preview code could be added to the file manager that would help our users greatly.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".