Here’s a really useful little tool that you’ll definitely want to add to your Quick Launch bar. It’s called Universal Viewer, and that’s about a good a summary of what it does, as it’s possible to get. Simply click the file open icon, locate the file you want to look at, double click on it and like as not the Universal Viewer will be able to open it. It can handle a very wide range of standards and formats including (deep breath) text, binary, hex and unicode: (RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded text), bmp, jpg, gif, png, tga, tiff, etc. plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView and external viewers. All formats supported by MS Windows Media Player including: avi, mpg, wmv, mp3 etc. All common web format: html pdf, xml, mht etc. All formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins. And not forgetting all MS Office file types (if installed): doc, docx, xls, ppt etc.
In short no more hunting around for the right application, if you want to open a file try Universal Viewer first.
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| Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. 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 texts
- Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
- Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
- Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML PDF XML MHT...
- Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins
- MS Office: all file types of MS Office (if installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...
- Converters: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...
Universal Viewer showing an image
Navigation Panel add-on activated 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 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 several 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
In the Lister plugins section you will find the list of rather good Lister plugins to use in conjunction with UV. These plugins are developed by 3rd parties and are not included into UV installation.
License:
- the main application is freeware;
- the add-on "Navigation Panel" is shareware.
The "Navigation Panel" add-on is used for the following purposes:
- showing Explorer-like window;
- commands "Delete", "Copy to folder", "Move to folder", "Rename", "Send by email";
- running user-defined tools;
- running text converter for Office files;
- registering of MS Office control (note: when NavPanel trial period will expire, program won't display MS Office files anymore).
System requirements: Windows All (32-bit)
Additional requirements: MS Internet Explorer 4.0+ |
Categories: docx, hex, html, ms office, PDF, png, quick launch bar, rtf, support, total commander, universal viewer, web, web format, windows, windows media player
