ODT files on my Windows 7 machines will not display in the Explorer preview pane if they were created with LO 3.4.2 but do display if created with 3.3 This is repeatable, every time, across two computers, one running W7 profesional, and one running W7 home. It is very irritating. I poked around in the meta.xml files to see if anything had changed in the file format between 3.3 and 3.4. I couldn't see anything obvious. But something has clearly changed to break the preview mechanism. Opening a file created under 3.3 and saving it out under 3.4.2 will break the previewing too, reliably. I would file this in any list of really irritating bugs, because it makes file management really hard and irritating.
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I am having a similar problem with the 3.5 RC2 but it affects all doc types. This was working fine on the 3.4.5 release.
Still broken in the 3.5 RC3
Created attachment 56651 [details] screen print from Win7 file manager with files from 3 LibreOffice versions Hi, I have created 3 files in LibreOffice versions in Linux, and pasted those in a folder and created a screen print of how it shows in WIn7 in my VirtualBox They all look the same, and I can see a preview of the simple text in the file. I have installed 3.4.2 on that Win7 box (and 3.5.0... in parallel)
Created attachment 56698 [details] SS with LO 3.4.5 installed
Created attachment 56699 [details] SS with LO 3.5 RC3 installed
Created attachment 56700 [details] SS with no LO installed
Note that the explorer preview cache was cleared so no cached thumbnails were shown. I have another system that was running OpenOffice in parallel with 3.3.4, I had installed the OO windows explorer extension and did not install the non working LO 3.3.4 windows explorer extension, with that set up preview thumbnails work fine. If you have multiple versions of LO installed installing multiple windows explorer extensions might change it's behavior depending on the install order.
I can confirm this is a regression against 3.4.5 Tested on LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3 under Win XP x86 SP3
Regression does appear in oldest version of bibisect-3.5.tar.lzma and must be older.
This bug is still present in the 3.5.1 rc1
it looks like the code for this explorer extension is in shell/source/win32, and it's custom stuff that doesn't use OOo libraries. so this would need somebody to debug on Windows. (and i wonder how Bjoern managed to bibisect it :-P )
I don't see this bug in 3.5.1 rc2. In fact I think I've fixed it with bug 46167.
I was wrong. Only thumbnail image works well with 3.5.1 rc2, preview is not available.
Bug still present in 3.5.1 RC2 It appears to be fixed in the 3.4.6 RC1
Explorer Preview and Icon thumb also broken in 3.5.2rc1
I can confirm this bug with 3.5.1 and it's linked to the saved version of document (1.0/1.1 version works), 1.2 and 1.2 extended format doesn't work. to reproduce: - open a document and type some text. - Change the option of recording format : to odf 1.O/1.1 - Save the document - preview works. With 1.2 or 1.2 extended, preview doesn't work.
Explorer preview never worked, and in fact IMHO it is not implemented. Don't you have by any chance MS Office 2010 installed? You may see shell extension of MS Office 2010, that has the Explorer preview for ODF files.
So, I think I can close this bug. MS Office does not handle ODF 1.2, that's why you cannot see the preview. LibreOffice does not have a working preview shell extension.
So the workaround is to get LO to save in the earlier ODF format?
Yes, you might export ODF 1.0/1.1 but then you might loss some information that is supported only by ODF 1.2, see http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5#ODF_1.2_Conforming_Documents
The Windows Explorer Icon Thumbnail Preview is broken in 3.5.3.2 it works fine in 3.4.6 Something has happened to stop it as I can remove 3.5.3.2 and put 3.4.6 on and the icon thumbs work correctly, if I then remove 3.4.6 and put 3.5.3.2 back on and refresh the icon cache they go back to the default icon. Maybe this belongs in another bug report about this problem