AppSuite:ReaderEngineInstall

Description

Readerengine is a document conversion engine based on OpenOffice. It contains some tunings special for our requirements, too. Additional there is implemented a completely new export filter for exporting any doc type to SVG.

System requirements

All available readerengine packages need to be installed on the target machine running Linux 64bit that is used for hosting the OX Document Converter.

Install on OX App Suite

Debian GNU/Linux 11.0

Add the following entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/open-xchange.list if not already present:

deb https://LDBUSER:LDBPASSWORD@software.open-xchange.com/products/appsuite/stable/readerengine/DebianBullseye/ /

and run

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install readerengine-writer

Debian GNU/Linux 12.0

Add the following entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/open-xchange.list if not already present:

deb https://LDBUSER:LDBPASSWORD@software.open-xchange.com/products/appsuite/stable/readerengine/DebianBookworm/ /

and run

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install readerengine-writer

Fonts for Debian

Thumbnails and preview of documents are rendered on the server instance of the readerengine. For good results some standard fonts are required. For Appsuite < 7.4.2 the appropriate font packages should be installed.

 * ttf-opensymbol (Bullets and Symbols)
 * ttf-liberation (Aral, Times New Roman, Courier  New)
 * ttf-dejavu
 * ttf-ipafont-jisx0208 (Asian fonts)
 * ttf-arphic-uming ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-unfonts-core
 * t1-thai-arundina

 apt-get install ttf-opensymbol ttf-liberation ttf-dejavu ttf-ipafont-jisx0208 ttf-arphic-uming \
        ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-unfonts-core t1-thai-arundina

Since Appsuite 7.4.2 the readerengine comes with the packages open-xchange-documents-fonts which includes an appropriate set of fonts.

Fonts for CentOS6 / RHEL6

 yum install liberation-fonts-common liberation-mono-fonts liberation-sans-fonts liberation-serif-fonts \
         libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts vlgothic-fonts vlgothic-fonts-common vlgothic-p-fonts

Since Appsuite 7.4.2 the readerengine comes with the packages open-xchange-documents-fonts which includes an appropriate set of fonts.