Cumulus provides special support for documents of certain office systems. This special support is based on specific support modules.

Special support is provided for documents of the following office systems:

When cataloging, Cumulus can capture all office document information such as author, dates and version, and even all text contained in the document.

If you have installed LibreOffice on the Client machine, Cumulus can properly create high quality previews and thumbnails from office documents. This includes RTF files, MS Office Open XML files and templates, MS Office files and templates, Open Document files and template, and Open Office files and templates. The client machine is any computer on which a Cumulus Client application is running, e.g. the Cumulus Desktop Client or a Cumulus Java Classes based application like Cumulus Web Solutions (for installations employing the Cumulus Web Client or the Cumulus Integration Platform).

If you have installed PowerPoint on the Client machine, the Cumulus PowerPoint Filter will create high quality previews and thumbnails for PowerPoint assets. You can also create new presentations out of your cataloged single slides directly in Cumulus. When you are working with Microsoft PowerPoint, Cumulus allows you to insert cataloged assets into presentations. For more details see “PowerPoint Support­” , and “The PowerPoint Add-In”.

Some of the special AssetStores for office documents enable Cumulus to create records for pages, sheets or slides of office documents. These records are created in addition to a record for the entire document. Other special AssetStores enable Cumulus to create one record for each picture embedded in an office document while cataloging. All these records are created in addition to a record for the entire document and in addition to separate records for pages or slides. The records will be assigned to the corresponding document as “related sub asset”. A category for each document will automatically be created and the records are assigned to these categories. For further details on such AssetStores, see “Asset Storage Modules” .

The MS PowerPoint Asset Processor and Office Open XML Presentation Processor enable the user to create PowerPoint presentations from selected PowerPoint assets (slides, presentations) and image assets within Cumulus. For further details on such Asset Processors, see “Asset Processor Modules” . (For more information on how to use the PowerPoint/Presentation Asset Processors, see “Creating Presentations” .)

The office document filters can capture:

 

Some office document filters have properties that you can change. The range of options depends on the filter.