Geej Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) Universal Viewer v5.7.3.0HomepageUniversal 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 XML DOC XLS... * Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister pluginsApplication 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 some major advantages: * Full support for Unicode filenames * Built-in functions of several popular plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view * Support for multiple codepages: ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ISO, KOI8, Mac etc. * 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) * More modern RegEx search library * Print preview * EXIF viewerIn 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.Well, I have included the following plugins from the plugin page:==> Office, Excellence, ListDoc, PDFView, Imagine, ICLview, FlashView, Font, XBaseView, FileInfo, PE Viewer, TxquickView, NFO View, Office2007, OpenOfficeUniversalViewer5730_ENU_Inf_addon.cabSize: 9.58 Mb (10,004,274 bytes)MD5: 207EF490FD53B2F72C3D3108E48DEDF1============Screenshot1: Access thru context menuScreenshot2: When opening Excel or Words file, select "Open"Screenshot3: Open MS Words filesScreenshot 4: If you encounter random display in opening Excel file, click Internet/Office button for proper display Edited May 11, 2013 by Geej Quote
Guest DennyMK Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) This could be a useful program. Thanks for the addon [Edit]: For all of you who thinks the download link doesn't work: It works, just need some time... Edited January 22, 2009 by DennyMK Quote
Geej Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 This could be a useful program. Thanks for the addon [Edit]: For all of you who thinks the download link doesn't work: It works, just need some time...U'r welcome.I didn't know DL link takes some time to work... Quote
Geej Posted July 9, 2009 Author Posted July 9, 2009 Updated to v4.0.2Add 1 more plugin: Office2007wlx 0.0.4 Quote
Rud Posted August 12, 2009 Posted August 12, 2009 Thanks!Please, add more plugins for example: OpenOffice.The are more than English interface: Bulgarian, Byelarussian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hellenic, Hrvatski, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Valencian, Vietnamese. Quote
Geej Posted August 13, 2009 Author Posted August 13, 2009 Thanks!Please, add more plugins for example: OpenOffice.I'll add OpenOffice plugin in next update.The are more than English interface: Bulgarian, Byelarussian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hellenic, Hrvatski, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Valencian, Vietnamese.I mainly made it English interface only for the main program as most of the plugins have limited language support. So to made it simple, main program & plugins are English only. If your OS is English, all other languages will are deleted. However if your OS is non-English, language interface will not be deleted. You can still change program language but I won't know whether plugin will work correctly or not. Quote
Geej Posted August 15, 2009 Author Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) Updated to v4.2.0Add 2 more plugins to support OpenOffice excel & word file-type. (Does not requires OpenOffice to be installed to view the text portion of these files) Edited August 15, 2009 by Geej Quote
gurpb99 Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I am writing a research article on the importance of universal viewers and how they can be used in the preservation of digital records (ie. computer files).Can you please tell me the technical basis of how the universal viewer works? How does it identify the various supported file formats and view them in the viewer?Any information would be very helpful, I am having a tough time finding information on how universal viewers actually work.Thank you Quote
crashfly Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) The following is somewhat off topic, however I thought it would be in good form to give some information on "Universal Viewers" and how they operate.Any information would be very helpful, I am having a tough time finding information on how universal viewers actually work.It depends on how the "Universal Viewer" (UV here after) is actually written.There are two defining ways of creating a UV. The first, which arguably is the simplest, is to create the UV to recognize the various file extensions. When a UV does that, it can then examine the file to see if it fits that specific file type.Instead of using the file extension, the second way to create a UV is to actually perform file analysis to determine the file contents. Most file types will have a "signature" to be able to identify it. (e.g. exe files begin with MZ) This kind of UV is more difficult to construct, however it is more robust in the file formats it can identify. Edited October 14, 2011 by crashfly Quote
Geej Posted October 14, 2011 Author Posted October 14, 2011 To what I see, on it homepage (top -right), the program is written with Delphi / C /ActiveX components programming lang.It uses several dll to translate the approprate file information to the UV GUI.I'm not a programmer so how they are translate to the UV GUI is beyond my knowledge. InfoThanks, crashfly for helping to answer an off-topic subject Quote
gurpb99 Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 This information is very helpful. One last questions if you have time, so we understand that the viewer needs to figure out the file type, but once it does that, how does it render the file? How does the file rendering work? Quote
crashfly Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 This information is very helpful. One last questions if you have time, so we understand that the viewer needs to figure out the file type, but once it does that, how does it render the file? How does the file rendering work?And that would depend on the file type. Each graphics file has a different way of storing data. The UV would determine the format and decode it to display on screen. Document formats are different from graphics file, so those would be setup to display text, etc. Audio and video files are the most complex, as they typically have a large amount of information to "display" (or send to the speaker in an acoustic format). ---So the short answer is it would depend on the specific file into how it is rendered.A. Determine file type.B. Decode file type (if possible).C. Display file type. Quote
Geej Posted October 19, 2011 Author Posted October 19, 2011 While trying to update to v 5.5.6.2, the installer now requires you to be online before it will install. Otherwise a pop up message will appear and you cannot proceed with the installation. I do not know why it need to go online. The developer has change its installer routine. Perhaps check / send some information to its server and maybe download some files behind your back. So it is something I do not like or feel comfortable about it.Nevertheless, I repackage this to inf addon so there is no need to be online to install. Includes all usual plugins as before. English only.Updated to v 5.5.6.2 Quote
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