this plugin allows file previews of the following mimetypes application/pdf image/gif image/jpeg image/png image/svg+xml image/tiff image/ vnd.microsoft.icon application/vnd.ms-excel text/csv application/xml text/* (source-code)
Download http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/web2py.plugin.filepreview.w2p Screenshots http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/plugin_filepreview_csv.png http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/plugin_filepreview_xls.png http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/plugin_filepreview_sourcecode.png Usage: call the plugin with http://127.0.0.1:8000/pyMantis/plugin_filepreview/index/plugin_webfolder_files.file.8ea642e39dea5073.696e746572616374696f6e732e637376.csv it assumes the upload path to be upload/ (this could be improved) if the file is not found it will return a 404 you will need to install some external modules to get all previews working (mimetypes, xlrd, csv, pygments, pdfminer) it would be nice if you could help to add some more support to other filetypes (really nice would be OpenOffice -> pyUNO) post cheers and improvements here :)