We are creating a custom document management application that requires a viewer for the user to quickly move through various documents no matter the format (image files, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .rtf, .pdf). Is there a control out there that will handle this problem? If not, what approach would you recommend we use? We would rather not use any MS products (embedded Office viewers for example) due to licensing concerns.
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There are several, however, you need to license them all as well.
One of the most popular choices is the Outside In SDK.
Outside In Viewer Technology is a software development kit (SDK) that enables file viewing, printing, and copy/paste functionality of nearly 500 file formats. It includes an annotation API which allows the developer to highlight, hide or insert text in a document view without altering the underlying native file. Its use is appropriate to solutions that can benefit from desktop viewing functionality.
- Available on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms
- Access via a C API or ActiveX Control for Visual Basic or other ActiveX compliant development environments
- Includes sample applications with source code
GalacticJello
2010-02-03 21:39:01
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Have you looked at adeptol ajaxdocumentviewer. They have Online Document Viewing Available in the Cloud also and on premise option too. A very low cost option and let's you embed more than 300 file formats with no active x or applets.
kim
2010-02-09 08:36:21
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i have found the Edraw component, the demo works fine but they still haven't reply me on licensing http://www.edrawsoft.com/officeviewer.php
Deni Mf
2010-06-24 12:41:52
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I have worked with Adeptol Document Viewer in Sharepoint. We use it as a Sharepoint Document Viewer and it works awsome.
Suni
2010-07-08 06:34:23