#11 Formatted preview for PDF and MS Office documents

[Nam-Quang Tran]

Outline

Formatted preview for PDF and MS Office documents. This is a Windows-only feature.

Implementation details

SWT has an OLE API that makes it possible to provide Windows users with a formatted preview for OLE-accessible documents (e.g. PDF, MS Office).
Here are some tutorials I know of that explain how to use OLE in SWT:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-ActivexSupportInSwt/index.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-activex/

Theoretically, this should also work for OpenOffice files, since there is this Eclipse plugin (http://ubion.ion.ag/solutions/003officeintegrationeditor) with which you can view OpenOffice files in Eclipse.

[Freecicero]

Have you considered using the type of plugin technology that TotalCommander users, especially the "ulister" plugin, which appears to be free: https://totalcmd.net/plugring/oilister.html

I personally use these plugins with Freecommander and they work fine, and they even run in linux using WINE.

[Nam-Quang Tran]

Can't use this. DocFetcher is written in Java and uses an SWT interface, whereas this plugin is built on TotalCommander (or FreeCommander).