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STDU Viewer v1.6.205 Updated

Checker on 27 Mar 2013

STDU Viewer is a text/graphics viewer, primarily focused on scientific and technical documentation like TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2. The program also supports a wide variety of other formats including FB2, TXT, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, DCX and image (BMP, PCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PSD) files.

Additionally, the program can convert DjVu and PDF files to image files (GIF, PNG, etc.)

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: GDIPLUS.DLL only on Windows 2000
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware for private or educational use -- commercial users must register.
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch STDUViewerApp.exe.
What's new?
  • Added German language
  • Fixed bug with password protected PDF files
  • Fixed problems with "frozen" scrolling in some files
Latest comments
outskirter on 2011-12-08 04:00

I'm using STDUViewer on Windows 7 and find it very useful, especially for reading eBooks in TXT format, as the app keeps my place for me and reopens files exactly where I left off.

It renders PDF files and JPEG images very well, too. However, be careful with the built-in file browser if you browse a folder with a lot of images, because the app creates a large cache in the program folder, and this takes quite some time to complete. If you try to select something or change folders while the cache is being created, the app can crash. Using the file open dialogue instead solves the problem, and still gives you previews, so the browser isn't really necessary.

At first I had trouble assigning shortcut keys, but after seeing tproli's comment above about language files, I looked for them in my installation. The languages are actually dealt with in a single file, STDUViewerResource.xml, which contains Russian, English and French versions of the menus, etc. The configuration file, STDUViewerSetting.xml, came with no language selected (Language ID=""), and once I specified English by editing it to read Language ID="en", I was able to assign shortcuts.

This is now my default PDF reader, replacing PDF-XChange.

avoidz on 2012-06-06 15:22

Not bad. Although SumatraPDF seems to render pages better (at least on my system) in a direct comparison.

Mark-B on 2012-06-19 21:55

STDU Viewer is much more than a PDF viewer. It supports TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2, WWF document formats as well as FB2, TXT, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX and image (BMP, PCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PSD) files. It's an excellent e-book reader.

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Gwennel Doc v0.13

lautrepay on 27 Jul 2012

Gwennel is a lightweight word processor that takes an innovative approach to formatting options by separating them into a tree-like structure. This is useful for handling long documents with clear, organized formatting tools or for users who wish to focus on the text first and formatting second. Any style changes (such as headings, lists, or colors) are propagated throughout the entire document and, although only able to open and save OpenDocument (.odt) files, this makes the program a capable WYSIWYG editor. Additionally, users can open existing files and make rapid changes to the entire document.

Category:
System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gwennel.exe.
What's new?
  • Bug fix: The color button was always black on Windows 7
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2010-07-30 13:50

It is not at all intuitive, but once you play with it a bit, It comes together.
I probably won't use it on my own computers where Open Office Portable is much handier, but as I like to keep my usb key light, I keep it there. Hint: go over your Open Office documents and see what styles you like to use, and update the openoffice-style.gwen template. I found this makes it more user friendly, as I am dealing with my own tastes.

tpig on 2011-03-12 06:57

I've tested it. I does support Unicode.

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Universal Viewer Free v5.7.2.0

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by dasfx

Universal Viewer is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. The program can open large text files, such as log files, very quickly and without eating memory.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MS Internet Explorer 4.0 and above
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the Portable ZIP package to a folder of your choice
  2. Create empty text file and name it Portable.ini in that folder
  3. Launch Viewer.exe
What's new?
  • Added support for CHM + 5 e-book formats
  • Added Unicode filelist handling
Latest comments
Magibon on 2011-04-24 04:28

F.Y.I
This is not stealth, it creates a folder in %Profile%>AppData>Roaming called "ATViewer".

gurp99 on 2011-10-13 23:15

I am writing a research article on the importance of universal viewers and how they can be used in the preservation of digital records (ie. computer files).

Can you please tell me the technical basis of how the universal viewer works? How does it identify the various supported file formats and view them in the viewer?

Any information would be very helpful, I am having a tough time finding information on how universal viewers actually work.

Thank you

gurpb99@gmail.com

webfork on 2011-10-14 20:31

gurp99: that's an important topic I'd be happy to address, but could you move it over to the forums?

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yBook v1.5.32

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

yBook is a document viewer that has both single or dual-page view capability. You "turn" the pages by clicking on them. It supports ASCII, HTML, RTF and PDB/PRC files.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the installer and Pendrive Runtimes. Extract both to separate folders and combine the contents of their {app} subfolders. Launch yBook.exe.

On first run let the program check for update and download the update file (select "Download only"). Extract the update file located in the main application directory and merge the contents of its {app} subfolder with the main program files.
What's new?
  • 1.5.32 Now allows up to 144 point font. Don't forget you can press 1 and 2 for single/two page view.
  • 1.5.31 Added support for ePub files, fixed a formatting issue with HTML files
  • 1.5.29 Now includes a free copy of Hal Spacejock
  • 1.5.28 Fixed the yBookmaker problem with creating empty files.
  • 1.5.27 Fixed the 'open last file' checking/unchecking
  • 1.5.27 Fixed the bookmarking of filenames with commas in
  • 1.5.26 yBook will now reopen the file you last used. You can switch this off if you don't like it.
  • 1.5.24 Updated the Gutenberg downloader with the new URL
  • 1.5.20 Quick fix for texture misalignments in 1.5.19
  • 1.5.19 New texture tiles - should cover even the largest screens.
  • 1.5.18 New feature - Press H to toggle desktop hiding. Good with single page and broad margins (1000 all round)
  • 1.5.10 Fixed the conversion of [pb] formatting in plain text files.
Latest comments
Nh on 2008-01-15 22:43

Universal Extractor can't extract these installers.

Simon on 2011-01-10 01:22

There are instructions on my website for putting the vb6 runtimes into the ybook program folder on the memory stick. The only sticking point is the rich text control, which has to be registered with the OS, but that just means you may not be able to open RTF files directly.

yBook2 is also available, uses dotnet (or mono) instead of vb6, and also works with unicode files.

grannyGeek on 2011-04-25 08:47

Installed this on my portable hard-drive, including the PenDrive runtimes into the default Temp folder inside the yBook folder. It does work on both my office pcs ( XP-Pro SP3, and Win7 Enterprise).
Only tested so far with the included free html e-book --- and it looks pretty good.
Nicely configurable, and seems nicely flexible.

It won't work on my home pc with XP-Pro SP3, when I try to advance to next page it freezes, and I have to kill it with Task Manager. Sadly, there seems to be no guidance for trouble-shooting, nor is any contact link provided, so I don't have a clue where to start trouble-shooting this to get it working at home. :(

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DIZzy v1.12

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

DIZzy displays DIZ, NFO and other confusing, ASCII-extended text files in a pleasing graphic format. It supports drag-and-drop, file associations and command line.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the standalone executeable to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking dizzy.exe.
Latest comments
anonymous on 2009-12-04 19:31

a very simple nfo viewer without all the bells and whistles, and at only 9kb how could you go wrong?

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