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Windows Document Viewer
Read PDF documents on plain Windows 95 — fast, small, native.

Windows Document Viewer is a native PDF reader for Windows 95. No Acrobat, no runtimes, no megabyte-hungry install: one small program that opens PDF files with smooth, anti-aliased text and graphics — and happily runs on a machine with 16 MB of RAM. It also reads multi-page TIFF (including G3/G4 fax), DCX fax, RTF, plain text and EPS preview files, so one viewer covers all the documents that land on your desk.

Freeware · version 1.0 · October 31, 1996 · English and Turkish packages
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Document Viewer screen shot
Document Viewer rendering a scientific paper at 141% zoom — click for the full-size shot (72 KB)

View

* Opens PDF documents up to version 1.4 with anti-aliased text and vector graphics, embedded fonts, images (JPEG, CCITT fax, LZW), shadings, transparency and blend modes
* Encrypted PDFs too: standard security with RC4 40/128-bit and AES-128, with password prompt and permission display
* Zoom 15–600 %, Fit Page / Fit Width / Actual Size, page rotation, grayscale mode, full-screen mode with slide-show timer
* Progressive rendering: the page appears as it is drawn — no staring at a blank window on a slow Pentium
* Looks right even on 256-color displays thanks to careful ordered dithering

Navigate & find

* Page thumbnails panel and full-page thumbnail grid; bookmarks (document outline) tree; hyperlinks inside documents
* Find text (Ctrl+F) with highlighted matches; select text with the mouse and copy it to the clipboard
* Go to page, Back/Forward history, smart PageDown that scrolls before it flips

Print & export

* Print with page ranges and 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 9 pages per sheet, with a live preview; right-click Print from Explorer
* Export any page as BMP, PNG or JPEG, or copy it to the clipboard as an image

The little things

* Acrobat-style toolbar and menus, Document Info dialog (general / fonts / security), tabbed Preferences, recent-file list, file associations dialog
* Full WinHelp documentation with context-sensitive "?" help in dialogs
* Hardened against damaged files — a broken PDF gets repaired or politely refused, never a crash

Download

Language Download Size
[EN] English docuvw_en.zip ~3.7 MB
[TR] Türkçe docuvw_tr.zip ~3.7 MB
[FR] Français docuvw_fr.zip ~3.7 MB
[DE] Deutsch docuvw_de.zip ~3.7 MB

The download is bigger than our other programs because it carries its own font engine and substitute fonts — that is what lets it render any PDF on a bare Windows 95 install. About 20 minutes on a 28.8 modem; worth it. Each ZIP contains the self-installing setup program — unzip it and run the installer. Freeware — see LICENSE.TXT in the package.

System requirements

Windows 95 or later · 16 MB RAM · about 4.5 MB of disk space.

 
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Uses FreeType, IJG JPEG and zlib — see NOTICES.TXT in the package.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 at 800x600 in high color.