PDXpert PLM Software
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File viewers for document & raster image formats
Last update 2017-12-06
PDXplorer™ can view a PDX package, which can contain design files. These files (package "attachments") can be viewed by the following file viewers. For information about PDX packages and PDXplorer, see:PDXplorer free viewer for PDX packages (IPC-2570).
There are a number of software companies that provide two versions of their applications: "creating" and "viewing" applications. The most common one is Adobe Acrobat, where anyone can read PDFs, but Adobe wants you to purchase Acrobatsoftware to create a PDF file.
However, you can create PDF files through free 3rd party applications that emulate a printer, such as PrimoPDF and doPDF:
Many Microsoft applications have similar free viewers, separate from the Office suite. For example, you can create an Excel spreadsheet, and other users can view it on their computers without Excel. Readers include Word, Excel,PowerPoint, Access, and Visio. These viewers can be updated to read Office 2007 formats (see the Knowledge Base article):
Many other raster graphics formats can be handled by the quite affordable Irfanview:
There are a number of viewers with a limited variety of supported file formats, such as the OpenText™ Brava!™ Reader(PDF, TIFF, JPG, and OpenText Content Sealed Format):
This application note was relevant to the PDXpert software release that was current at time of publication. Product changes since that time may affect its utility. We'd be happy to assist you in assessing the applicability of this note to your situation.