Problem

Users often want to have a visual from MS Office of LibreOffice-Files, without having to upload the PDF version.

Solution

Set up a LibreOffice Container in the translate5 ecosystem.

If

• the Visual-Plugin is active
• and there is not already a PDF provided as Visual source for a file

send all LibreOffice and MS Office files to it to render a PDF.

Use this PDF as visual source.

Do this only, if no visual sources are provided by the user. If the feature is active and there are visual sources alongside world-files, a warning/info should be written to the task-log that no office-pdf conversions were done

Container

The container called "officeconverter"  is architecturally based on the pdfconverter/visualconverter code and a libre-office container readily available should be the base. Preferrably, the shared code shall be externalized to a seperate composer module. The git-project shall be called "visual-officeconverter".

InstantTranslate specific

A sysconfig, overwriteable on client-level, determines, if the feature is available for client.

Project overview specific

A sysconfig, overwriteable on client-level, import and task-level determines, if the feature is available/used.

Deployment

There is a seperate issue for setting up the new "officeconverter" container in the Cloud: https://jira.translate5.net/browse/MITTAGQI-387