Hi Hilton, it seems you're replying to my post on dspace-tech, but you didn't CC your message to dspace tech, so I'm attaching your full message below.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems the open formats work but not the closed ones like .xlsx and .docx > etc.. It's exactly the opposite. The binary formats work, but the Office Open XML ones do not yet have support in Apache POI in the version DSpace uses. If I'm reading the Apache POI docs correctly, a newer version does support them, so you may want to try bumping the apache-poi dependency version number and using the new filters. Let us know if you succeed. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Important information about digital document formats can have their content > extracted/filtered by the DSpace software. > It seems the open formats work but not the closed ones like .xlsx and .docx > etc.. > See: > http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital_Formats > for more info. > > Cheers > > hg > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: helix84 <[email protected]> > Date: 16 May 2013 10:45 > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Filterable document types in DSpace > To: "Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]" <[email protected]> > Cc: "dspace-tech ([email protected])" > <[email protected]> > > > Hi Sue, > > the supported formats are documented here (this is for 1.8 because 1.7 > didn't have this in docs, but I don't believe it changed between 1.7 and > 1.8): > > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC18/Transforming%20DSpace%20Content%20(MediaFilters) > > To sum it up, binary MS Office files are filterable (incl. Excel), but not > the Office Open XML (MS Office 2007+) formats (docx, xlsx, pptx). I'm not > really sure about PDF/A since you're explicitly asking about it, but I don't > think it would be any worse than the generic PDF support, i.e. IMHO it's > supported. rtf doesn't seem to be supported. > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete > security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and > efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls > from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > > > > -- > Hilton Gibson > Systems Administrator > JS Gericke Library > Room 1025C > Stellenbosch University > Private Bag X5036 > Stellenbosch > 7599 > South Africa > > Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758 > http://library.sun.ac.za > http://scholar.sun.ac.za > http://ar1.sun.ac.za > http://aj1.sun.ac.za > > _______________________________________________ > Duraspace mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/duraspace > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems the open formats work but not the closed ones like .xlsx and .docx > etc.. It's exactly the opposite. The binary formats work, but the Office Open XML ones do not yet have support in Apache POI in the version DSpace uses. If I'm reading the Apache POI docs correctly, a newer version does support them, so you may want to try bumping the apache-poi dependency version number and using the new filters. Let us know if you succeed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
