PC File Viewer

The PC file viewer software provides you with an application to view popular PC file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, and AutoCAD. The viewer allows you to choose a file and to copy and paste information from the viewer to another application, such as a text editor. CDE applications will be able to identify these filetypes and launch this application by double-clicking on the icon in your mail attachment or from File manager (dtfile). PC file viewer supports the following file formats:

• Word Processing Formats

  • Microsoft Word for Windows Version through 7.0 and Word 97

  • Microsoft Windows Works Version through 4.0

  • Word Perfect for Windows Version through 7.0

  • AMI/AMI Professional Version through 3.1

• Spreadsheet Formats

  • Microsoft Excel Windows Version 2.2 through 7.0 and Excel 97

  • Microsoft Excel Chart Version 2.x through 7.0

  • Microsoft Windows Works Version through 4.0

  • Lotus 1-2-3 Windows Version through 6.x

  • Lotus 1-2-3 Chart Windows Version through 5.0

  • QuattroPro for Windows Version through 7.0

• Presentation Formats

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Version through 7.0 and PowerPoint 97

  • Corel Presentation Version through 7.0

  • FreelanceVersion 1.0 and 2.0

• Graphics Formats

  • BMP (Windows)

  • DXF Version through 13

  • GEM (Bitmap & vector)

  • PIC (Lotus)

PC File Viewer Limitations

PC file viewer is limited to the following products and configurations for this Solaris release:

• SPARC architecture ONLY

• Printing is not supported

The following limitations are related to displaying items in a supported file:

• Charts are not supported in QuattroPro

• Text that is designed to be shown vertically is shown horizontally in the viewer. This vertical text may overlap adjacent cells making reading what is in them difficult.

• Figures and footers are aligned with the anchors in the text. If font sizes on the viewing system are not identical to those on the authoring system, then anchored objects will not be at the appropriate place in the text.

• There is limited support for incremental shading in presentation file formats

• There is no support for drawing objects in MS Word, and Lotus.

• Borders in Word Perfect and AmiPro files are not supported

• Copy & paste does not work for Japanese text in Microsoft Office applications

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  All of the above limitations also exist in the Microsoft Windows version of the product from Inso Corporation.

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• There is no support for OLE objects

• If a font that is used in a document is not on the system, the default system font will be used and the viewed text may look different than what was seen in the authoring application.

• If a special character is used in a document that is not in the available character set, it will be replaced by an asterisk in the document as shown by the file viewer.

PC File Viewer Packages

Table 3-6 lists the packages that are provided with PC file viewer.

Table 3-6 PC file viewer Packages

Locale	Package Name	Description
English	SUNWdtpcv	US base package
	SUNWdtpcz	US base actions and messages
Japanese	SUNWjdpcv	Japanese EUC/PCK/UTF-8 common messages
	SUNWjepcv	Japanese EUC messages
	SUNWjppcv	Japanese PCK messages
	SUNWjupcv	Japanese UTF-8 messages
	SUNWjepcz	Japanese EUC action files
	SUNWjppcz	Japanese PCK action files
	SUNWjupcz	Japanese UTF-8 action files
Korean	SUNWkcpcv	Korean EUC/UTF-8 common messages
	SUNWkupcv	Korean UTF-8 messages
	SUNWkdpcv	Korean EUC messages
	SUNWkupcz	Korean UTF-8 action files
	SUNWkdpcz	Korean EUC action files
Traditional Chinese	SUNWhcpcv	Traditional Chinese EUC/BIG5 common files
	SUNW5pcv	Traditional Chinese BIG5 messages
	SUNWhdpcv	Traditional Chinese EUC messages
	SUNW5pcz	Traditional Chinese BIG5 action files
	SUNWhdpcz	Traditional Chinese EUC action files
Simplified Chinese	SUNWccpcv	Simplified Chinese EUC/GBK common messages
	SUNWcdpcv	Simplified Chinese EUC messages
	SUNWgpcv	Simplified Chinese GBK messages
	SUNWcdpcz	Simplified Chinese EUC action files
	SUNWgpcz	Simplified Chinese GBK action files
German	SUNWdepcv	German messages
	SUNWdepcz	German action files
French	SUNWfrpcv	French messages
	SUNWfrpcz	French action files
Spanish	SUNWespcv	Spanish messages
	SUNWespcz	Spanish action files
Italian	SUNWitpcv	Italian messages
	SUNWitpcz	Italian action files
Swedish	SUNWsvpcv	Swedish messages
	SUNWsvpcz	Swedish action files

Installing PC File Viewer

To install PC file viewer, follow these steps:

1. Start CDE or OpenWindows.

2. Insert the Supplement CD into your CD-ROM drive.

   The File Manager window is displayed.

3. Open a command window and become superuser using the su command and superuser password.

4. Enter the swmtool command at the # prompt:

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   # /usr/sbin/swmtool
   

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   The Admintool:Software window is displayed.

5. Select Add from the Edit Menu.

   The Admintool:Set Source Media window is displayed.

6. Type:

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   # cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Product
   

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   The Admintool:Add Software window is displayed.

7. In the Admintool:Add Software window, select PC File Viewer 1.0.1.

   The software is installed in the /opt directory (default).

8. In the Admintool: Add Software window, click Add.

   The installation process should take a few minutes.

9. Quit Admintool.

Using PC File Viewer (Command Line Usage)

To use PC file viewer without the icons, run the following command:

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% /opt/SUNWdtpcv/bin/sdtpcv &

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Adding PC File Viewer to the CDE Front Panel

To add PC file viewer to the CDE front panel, dtfile, dtpad, etc., do the following:

1. Open File Manager (dtfile)

2. Go to the /opt/SUNWdtpcv/bin directory.

   You will see the PC file viewer icon there.

3. Open the CDE front panel where you want the icon.

   For example, Application or File sub folder.

4. Drag and drop the PC file viewer icon from File Manager to InstallIcon in the selected subfolder.

Now the PC file viewer can be launched by just clicking on the icon in the CDE front panel. You can also promote the icon to appear on the front panel by default.