Help on viewers for electronic papers
Here are some free viewers downloadable from the WWW for various applications. Also included are various decompression utilities. Some of these links are now a bit dated. Suggestions and corrections are most welcome!- PostScript (.ps)
- Ghostscript,
Ghostview and GSview
- Linux distributions have PostScript viewers installed by default.
- Portable Data Format (.pdf)
- Adobe
Acrobat Reader
- MacOS and Linux distributions have PDF viewers installed by default. Look for KPDF or Evince, for axample.
- Other viewers
- MacOS and Linux distributions have PDF viewers installed by default. Look for KPDF or Evince, for axample.
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- OpenOffice for all operating systems.
- Abiword is also cross-platform.
- RTF-Viewer-10 for Mac
- Ted for Linux
- Abiword is also cross-platform.
- Microsoft Office
- OpenOffice for all operating systems.
- Various viewers and converters
- Microsoft Word (.doc)
- Microsoft
Word Viewer (Windows only, registration necessary)
- OpenOffice for all operating systems.
- Envoy (.evy)
- Envoy Plug-in
- Device Independent (.dvi)
- DVI Viewer for
Microsoft Windows
- SeeTeX - DVI for X-11
- ChiWriter (.???)
- ChiView for DOS/Windows
- Microsoft Excel (.xcl)
- OpenOffice for all operating systems.
- Gnumeric for Linux and MacOS
- Microsoft Excel Viewer
- Gnumeric for Linux and MacOS
- WordPerfect (.wpd)
- OpenOffice for all operating systems.
- Abiword is also cross-platform.
- Plug-in from Corel views WordPerfect 8 files.
- Abiword is also cross-platform.
- HyperText Markup Language (.htm, .html)
- Browsers listed by Yahoo
- Framemaker (.fm, .fm?, .mif)
- FrameReader for Windows, Macintosh, Unix,
- Zipped (.zip)
- WinZip for
Windows decompression
- ZipIt for Macintosh decompression
- On Unix/Linux, use the
gunzip
command - ZipIt for Macintosh decompression
- GNUzipped (.gz)
- WinZip for
Windows decompression
- Mac gzip
- On Linux/Unix, use the
gunzip
command - Mac gzip
- Taped (.tar)
- Tar
for Macintosh unpacking
- WinZip for Windows unpacking
- On Linux/Unix, use the
tar -xvf filename
command - WinZip for Windows unpacking
- Unixcompressed (.z)
- Stuffit
Expander for
Macintosh decompression
- On Linux/Unix, use the
uncompress
command - On Linux/Unix, use the
- Prn (.prn)
- At DOS prompt, type
print filename.prn
Comments to Christian Zimmermann. I put all I know on this page, no need to ask me for more! But additions and corrections are most welcome!