How to add Quick Look support for OpenDocument file formats

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I prefer OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice to MS Office because MS Office is expensive.

But OS X Quick View functionality that allows a preview of a file by taping space bar doesn't show an OpenDocument file's contents but just an icon.

  • How can I add Quick Look support for OpenOffice files, like .ods, .odt and .odp ?

I know OpenOffice can write MS Office documents but it would be nice to have Quick Look understand the OpenDocument formats.

Note: ods are spreadsheets, odt are word processor documents and odp are presentations.

Best Answer

There's a longstanding request for it at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=68600

And an early implementation is at http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/patches/aqua_February2008/quicklook/

To install, place OOoQuickLook.qlgenerator from that site into /Library/QuickLook and wait a few minutes for QuickLook to detect the new generator.

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