To have additional features like the full preview, you need to install some external components.
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Brew cask install libreoffice If you do not have Homebrew installed, you can follow the installation instructions on Homebrew website to install it before running the above command. $ brew install ghostscript Pdftohtml. This is a converter from Pdf to HTML format, LogicalDOC makes use of this utility to prepare the documents for annotations. Without this you will not be able to insert annotations inside the content of the document. To install it on MAC, execute this command: $ brew install pdftohtml Tesseract. Recurring donation - repeats automatically LibreOffice is Free Software and is made available free of charge. Your donation, which is purely optional, supports our worldwide community. If you like the software, please consider a donation.
LibreOffice
- Please download and install LibreOffice in your system: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
- Setup the application following the instructions at https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-x/
- Create a symbolic link from the command line (Terminal server) using the instructions below
XCode
Please download and install XCode in your system: https://developer.apple.com/xcode
After the installation of XCode you also need to install the optional package 'Command Line Tools', so proceed as follows:
- Launch XCode
- Open the menu XCode->Preferences->Downloads
- Select the 'Components' tab
- Install 'Command Line Tools' item
Once you have your command line tools installed you can quit XCode.
Homebrew
Please download and install Homebrew in your system: http://brew.sh/
You can install Homebrew by executing this command:
ImageMagick
You have to install and configure ImageMagick (rel 6.6 or greater). LogicalDOC uses ImageMagick to manipulate images for previewing.
To install it on MAC, execute this command:
GhostScript
LogicalDOC needs to print documents to a virtual device sometimes when performing barcode recognition. In general in GhostScript is a package installed by default.
To install it on MAC, execute this command:
Pdftohtml
This is a converter from Pdf to HTML format, LogicalDOC makes use of this utility to prepare the documents for annotations. Without this you will not be able to insert annotations inside the content of the document.
To install it on MAC, execute this command:
Tesseract
Tesseract is an Open Source OCR engine adopted by Google. This package represents the basic OCR engine available on LogicalDOC and it is required only if you want to extract texts inside images. Read this Mini How-To on how to install it.
However, to install it on MAC, execute this command:
OpenSSL
OpenSSL is the most known Open Source SSL implementation. This package is required to sign documents server-side.
To install it on MAC, execute this command:
Antivirus ClamAV
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LogicalDOC is integrated with the ClamAV antivirus to check if a submitted document is infected, the the best way is to install ClamXav, a free graphical front end that includes the clamav software: http://www.clamxav.com. Once installed execute it and it will guide to in the installation of the ClamAV antivirus, at the end check to have the command clamscan installed in your system, probably in /usr/local/clamXav/bin/clamscan
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AcmeCadConverter
This utility is used to manage AutoCAD preview and conversion. The LogicalDOC distribution cannot include a licensed version of this utility so the preview will contain a watermark, to remove this watermark you will have to purchase a license from here: http://www.dwgtool.com/cadconvert.htm
Once you have a valid license key please do the following in LogicalDOC:
- Stop LogicalDOC
- Open the text file conf/context.properties
- Locate the property acmecad.key and put here your license key
- Save and start LogicalDOC
As this is a Windows application, you need to install wine in your MAC to use it so follow this procedure:
1. Go to the XQuartz homepage, download XQuartz, and install it.
2. Install wine by executing these commands:
The path /usr/local/Cellar/wine/1.6.2/bin/wine is where your wine was installed, it may be different in your system
To check if all is ok, execute this command:
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About the App
- App name: LibreOffice
- App description: libreoffice (App: LibreOffice.app)
- App website: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Install the App
- Press
Command+Space
and type Terminal and press enter/return key. - Run in Terminal app:
ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key.
If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish. - Run:
brew cask install libreoffice
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Done! You can now use LibreOffice.