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Concept
File viewer
Résumé
A file viewer is a software application that represents the data stored in a in a human-readable form. The file contents are formatted in a meaningful way, then displayed on the screen, printed out, or read aloud using speech synthesis.
File viewer applications can be split into the following categories:
File Viewer Only applications do not allow the user to edit files.
File Viewer and Converter applications allow both viewing of data and exporting data in a different or copying information the clipboard.
File Viewer and Editor applications allow the user to view existing files, create a new file of specific type or modify the content of an existing file.
Such division of functionality was initially a result of software licensing for proprietary file formats, such as all file formats can be read freely but software license may exist that limits file creation and modification algorithms to be used only by licensor. For example, database software DBASE used proprietary algorithm for creating .DBF files, but Norton Commander had a built-in viewer for .DBF files. Acrobat Reader supports viewing of .PDF files, but another software application such as Adobe Photoshop, LibreOffice or Microsoft Word is required to create .PDF files.
File viewers need to have structure information about the file format to be viewed in order to handle different byte orders, code pages or newline styles. On contrary, media file viewers, such as Video Player applications may have initially very small number of or none recognized, but rely on video codecs to play various media, making their capability to read and represent media file data to the user expandable.
Some file viewer may be classified as filters that translate binary files into plain text (e.g., antiword). However, depending on the competence of the translating routines, some information may be lost.
s display graphics files onscreen. Some viewers such as IrfanView are capable of reading multiple s but some such as JPEGview are dedicated to a single format.
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