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Viewers enable you to view and print documents in various formats:

  • Portable Document Format (*.pdf): Adobe Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript
  • PostScript (*.ps): Ghostscript
  • Microsoft Word (*.doc): Microsoft Word Viewer
  • Microsoft Excel (*.xls): Microsoft Excel Viewer

Adobe Acrobat Reader

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

Adobe Acrobat Reader enables you to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (*.pdf) format. It is available for a large number of platforms and languages.

The latest version (as of April 29, 2002) is 5.0.5.

Ghostscript, gv and GSview

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
AFPL Ghostscript Development Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

Ghostscript enables you to view and print documents in PostScript (*.ps) and PDF (*.pdf) format. It is available for a number of platforms.

Ghostscript has a command line user interface. There are a number of programs that provide a graphical user interface to Ghostscript, such as gv for Unix & VMS, MacGSView for MacOS, and GSview for OS/2, Microsoft Windows & Linux.

The latest version of AFPL Ghostscript (as of April 29, 2002) is 7.04 (released on January 31, 2002). The latest version of GSview is 4.2 (released on February 7, 2002).

Microsoft Word Viewer

http://office.microsoft.com/
Search for Word Viewer

The Microsoft Word Viewer enables you to view and print documents in Microsoft Word (*.doc) format.

Microsoft Excel Viewer

http://office.microsoft.com/
Search for Excel Viewer

The Microsoft Excel Viewer enables you to view and print documents in Microsoft Excel (*.xls) format.

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