Legacy Aspose MSOffice document converter
This document describes how to install the Aspose document converter add-on as a standalone executable. It is only suitable for small deployments with low throughput (e.g. less than 5 documents per minute). We recommend the Docker installation for larger deployments.
Document previews
A separate application is used to generate document previews of Office/OpenOffice documents. If the application is not installed, then these previews will not be available to user.
To install, download the application from the RSpace download site:
wget --user=<username> --password=<password> https://operations.researchspace.com/software/aspose/aspose-app-VERSION.zip
replacing VERSION with the current release version and using your download credentials in place of <username> and <password>. As of April 20
1. Unzip and follow the installation instructions in the file Usage.md. Here we assume you are putting the application in /etc/rspace/aspose.
2. Make sure the application has executable permissions:
chmod 755 /etc/rspace/aspose/aspose-app.jar
3. There are several deployment properties relating to document preview generation. These three are mandatory. Add these to /etc/rspace/deployment.properties
aspose.license Absolute file path to Aspose license E.g.
aspose.license=/etc/rspace/aspose/Aspose-Total-Java.lic
aspose.app Absolute file path to Aspose standalone document converter executable E.g.
aspose.app=/etc/rspace/aspose/aspose-app.jar
aspose.logfile Absolute path to Aspose document converter's log file. E.g.
aspose.logfile=/etc/rspace/aspose/logs.txt
These two are optional:
aspose.logLevel The log level (default is INFO) e.g. aspose.logLevel=WARN
aspose.jvmArgs Optional jvm args to pass to application. E.g. aspose.jvmArgs=-Xmx1024m
4. Restart RSpace
5. Test by uploading an MSOffice or text file and try to view a preview.