PC File Viewer

PC File Viewer

The PC file viewer software provides you with an application to view popular PC file formats such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, and AutoCAD. Use the viewer 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).

File Formats Supported

PC file viewer supports 17 different file types:

Word Processing Formats

• Microsoft Word for Windows versions through 7.0 and Word 97

• Microsoft Windows Works versions through 4.0

• Word Perfect for Windows versions through 7.0

• AMI/AMI Professional versions through 3.1

Spreadsheet Formats

• Microsoft Excel Windows versions 2.2 through 7.0 and Excel 97

• Microsoft Excel Chart versions 2.x through 7.0

• Microsoft Windows Works versions through 4.0

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

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

• QuattroPro for Windows versions through 7.0

Presentation Formats

• Microsoft PowerPoint versions through 7.0 and PowerPoint 97

• Corel Presentation versions through 7.0

• Freelance versions 1.0 and 2.0

Graphics Formats

• BMP--Windows

• DXF--versions through 13

• GEM--bitmap and 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 Microsoft 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 is 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 is replaced by an asterisk in the document as shown by the file viewer.

Installing PC File Viewer

See "Installing Supplement CD Software".

Adding PC File Viewer to the CDE Front Panel

To Add PC File Viewer to the CDE Front Panel

1. Open File Manager (dtfile).

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

   The PC file viewer icon appears there.

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

   For example, the Application or File sub-folder.

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

5. Launch PC file viewer by clicking on the icon in the CDE front panel.

   You can also promote the icon to appear on the front panel by default.