Introduction
Universal Viewer Free is an advanced file viewer.
Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:
- Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
- RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded files
- Images: all general graphics formats: JPG JP2 BMP ICO GIF PNG WMF TGA TIFF...
- Multimedia: all file types supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
- PDF, ebooks: PDF format (Adobe/Foxit Reader not needed) + XPS DjVu CBR CBZ formats
- Internet: all file types supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML MHT...
- Plugins: all file types supported by Total Commander Lister plugins
- MS Office: all file types of MS Office (requires MS Office installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...
- Converters: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...
Application is fully Unicode compatible and can be integrated into
Windows Explorer's context menu,
so there is no problem to call it from anywhere in Explorer:
right-click on a file and select the "Universal Viewer" item.
It can also be integrated into other popular file managers.
Generally, Universal Viewer is an application similar to Total Commander Lister.
But comparing to Lister, it has the following highlights:
- Built-in functions of popular plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view
- Support for multiple codepages: ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ISO etc.
- Support for text converters for DOC, DOCX, ODT, PDF etc.
- Support for user tools
- Toolbar, status bar, other interface improvements
- Auto-reloading of file on changing, "Follow tail" option
- Displaying of line numbers
- Displaying of non-printable characters
- Combined Unicode/Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice)
- Modern RegEx search library
- Print preview
- EXIF viewer
- NavPanel add-on to add Explorer interface
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