Quick View Plus


	Quick View Plus – See Those Files

One of the many neat little features of Windows 95 is something called Quick View, which lets you look at the contents of files from the Explorer (or even from the Open dialog box) just by right-clicking on the file name. The only problem here is that it works only with the most common Windows file formats -- such as plain text files, BMP images and Microsoft Word document files -- and not with a number of other formats that you might encounter. Inso Corporation's Quick View Plus is a replacement for Quick View that not only supports far more formats but adds a number of other useful features for both text and graphics viewing.

Suppose that you're using Word for Windows 95 and you get a text file in a format you've never heard of. Word has "import filters" for several popular competing applications, but if your file is in some really unusual format like MASS-11 or Samna Word IV+ you may be in trouble. Quick View Plus, however, lets you look at the file with most formatting intact - things like centering, justification, tables, embedded graphics and even font selections - and also lets you copy the file (or only a part) to the Clipboard and then paste it into a new document in your preferred Windows application.
In some cases there may be minor differences between
the formatting you get and what you would have had in the native program, but QVP is still better than nothing - a lot better - and it's gotten us out of several such jams. You can also print the file or send it as electronic mail using Windows Messaging (the Microsoft Exchange client).

Quick View Plus is also a first-rate graphics viewer with scaling capabilities to let you see the image either at actual size (in pixels) or scaled down or up to fit the window, and again QVP supports a lot of bit-mapped graphics formats that many other applications may not support. You can copy graphic images from QVP to
other applications via the Clipboard as well. Other QVP capabilities include viewing spreadsheets and database files in many formats, viewing the directories of compressed archive files and even viewing technical information about DOS and Windows .EXE files.
In addition to its function of replacing Quick View, QVP can plug itself into Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Norton Navigator to work as a viewer for those applications; this lets you, for example, view a Microsoft Word document on-line the same way you would with a plain text file you find on a Web site.
Link to Inso Corporation's Web Site


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