Listed below is a selection of the viewers required to read files stored in the various specific formats:
| Viewer | Format |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader | PDF files |
| Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview | PostScript (.ps) files |
| IrfanView | BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, Photo-CD, PNG, TGA, TIFF image formats ... |
| WinZip | ZIP, CAB, Microsoft Compress, GZIP, TAR, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex und MIME |
Providing a multisectional online publication is available compound in an archive file (for instance an online dissertation, which consists of several individual files condensed in one ZIP archive file) all member files ought to be unpacked at the local terminal before a specific member file is being opened. Only in such a way it can be secured that data concatenations among the individual member files will work correctly.
Links to producers of other viewers: Microsoft
Occasionally online publications will not be displayed free from errors with just any version of a normally appropriate data viewer. When problems occur please make sure that the current version of the data viewer is being employed. Should you notice serious errors when trying to access archived online publications, please report this to np-info@d-nb.de.
| Hannelore Effelsberg | |||
| Copyright: German National Library Marcus Klein, Hannelore Effelsberg / 12.09.2003 |
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