Universal Viewer is a lightweight and advanced file viewer capable of opening various file formats. It supports PDF files, fonts, Flash video, SWF animations, all MS Office formats, images, music, and video files.
The 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.
There is no need for additional software to view Word, Excel, or PDF files. You do not need to have installed Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, etc. For multimedia files, no external codecs are required too.
Supported view modes and corresponding file formats are:
- Images: all major graphics formats: JPG, BMP, ICO, GIF, PNG, WMF, TIF, PSD…, over 40 formats. Also, RAW images from 400+ cameras are supported.
- Multimedia: all major media formats: AVI, MPG, WMV, MP3, MP4, FLV, MKV…, over 170 formats.
- Word: file types of MS Office Word: DOC, DOCX.
- Excel: file types of MS Office Excel: XLS, XLSX.
- PDF: Adobe PDF format, in addition to DJVU, XPS, CBR, and CBZ formats.
- RTF: Rich Text format.
- Internet: all file types supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML, XML, MHT…
- Text: View for unknown file types. Files of unlimited size can be shown (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed). All major text encodings are supported. Unicode/UTF-8 views are present.
- Plugins: all file types are supported by Total Commander Lister plugins.
Universal Viewer Pro additional features:
- support for Word, and Excel files (including DOCX XLSX). MS Office is not needed.
- preinstalled PDF plugin; Adobe or Foxit Reader is not required.
- a new multimedia player that supports over 170 formats; external codecs are not required. (UV Free only shows multimedia files supported by Windows Media Player engine).
- support for complex RTF files (with images, tables…).
- support for RAW images (from 400+ cameras).
- image panel with the “Convert to” feature.
- options added:
- option “Fit window to media size” for media mode
- search option “Highlight all matches” for text mode
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11.
