How come no Microsoft Office (WORD, EXCEL) support?

[CrashKasbar]

Hello,

I am coming from Paperport, and I am amazed at this product. So many reasons this product
rocks: features, customizations, and speed. Thanks.

A thing I miss, is the thumbnail previews and in program viewing of Microsoft Office
products? (Word doc, Excel xls, etc). I did notice Powerpoint does seem come up
in thumbnails.

Is there a reason these formats have been avoided? (you don't like microsoft?
I should switch to openOffice?) Any chance these formats will be supported?
(xnviewmp?)

Thanks

[CrashKasbar]

bump

Sorry to harp, but this is unfortunately turning into a big issue here at my company. As
we look at trying to migrate from Paperport(boo) to XnView/XnViewmp.

So is Word/Excel thumbnails not supported for a reason? Is this something that a developer
could to do? Or do people here prefer some other product maybe? It just seems we have
a lot of Documents that come up with just an icon.

Thanks in advance for the thoughts and inputs.

[XnTriq]

Thumbnails for office documents

[CrashKasbar]

Thank you for the link.

So now the question is, can this be solved? Is this a technical, time/financial resources or religious reason?

[obelisk]

it's an image viewer, not a universal thumbnailer. it's up to Microsoft Office to provide thumbnailers. They don't because you already have Microsoft Office (WORD, EXCEL) viewers.
if xnview cost $100 and had 100 staff maybe they'd get around to this, but not currently.

[foxyshadis]

The 2007 and up versions sometimes have embedded thumbnails easily accessible in the zip, mostly in powerpoints: <root>\docProps\thumbnail.jpeg. That might get you part of the way. The older versions also do, but you have to parse the binary IStream file format to get to them.