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LibreOffice has a pretty powerful document conversion, which you can run headless. I'm guessing they are converting to HTML and perhaps other formats -- do they
by yesbabyyes 13y ago
LibreOffice has a pretty powerful document conversion, which you can run headless. I'm guessing they are converting to HTML and perhaps other formats -- do they offer anything like that?
Edit: You can invoke it something like this:
soffice --headless --convert_to html file.doc
I'm just speculating, but it seems reasonable that it would open the document just like the regular LibreOffice, fetch external resources and so on.
- gjulianm 13y agoIt seems like they're converting it to PDF. When you click the .doc file in Dropbox, they open a PDF preview. It fits with the fact that the buzzs I've seen are only for the .doc file, not the HTML or the XLS.
- the_mitsuhiko 13y agoThat's pretty much exactly what is happening. DropBox converts documents into HTML for easy viewing on the web interface.
- skeletonjelly 13y agoYou seem pretty confident! Is your source you? A DropBox employee?
- icoder 13y agoabortz from DropBox has stated just this, in this thread, 4hrs before your post
- davidu 13y agoDropbox used to use Crocodoc which was just acquired by Box... And now Dropbox doesn't use Crocodoc. And now we learn about LibreOffice... Coincidence? Just pointing it out...
- altrego99 13y agoWhy would LibreOffice allow the .doc to run whatever embedded macro within it which does the job of calling home?