Portable Universal Viewer: Best Free Advanced File Viewer For Your Netbook

Portable Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for your netbook that supports a lot of formats. It is fully Unicode-compatible and can be integrated into Windows Explorer’s context menu, so you can simply right-click on any file and select “Universal Viewer” option to view the contents of the file.

Universal Viewer supported 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 byIrfanView/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…

In the Lister plugins section you will find the list of good Lister plugins to use in conjunction with Universal Viewer. As these lister plugins are developed by 3rd parties they are not included into the standard Universal Viewer application.

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 code pages: 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