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The PerfectShare service includes a built-in viewing system to review and comment 2D and 3D files. This feature also includes the ability to view many other types of multi media files. Exactly which file types are supported, depend on your operating system and what software you have installed on your system. Basically, if your computer has the plug-ins or appropriate software installed, PerfectShare will also support it.

For instance, PerfectShare will support viewing PDF files within it's inline viewer. However, this requires that you also have Adobe Acrobat be installed on your computer. Same is true of viewing Powerpoint or Excel files. Our viewer will support it providing Microsoft Office is already installed on your computer.

Lastly, viewing 2D and 3D CAD models requires the installation of free browser plug-ins available from the prospective publishers site. i.e. viewing files exported from Dassault Systemes Catia V5, requires the instalation of the free 3D XML viewer available from Dassaults web site.

Currently PerfectShare supports the following file types:

Multimedia formats

asf   Advanced Systems Format File
asx   Microsoft ASF Redirector File
avi   Audio Video Interleave File
avs   Application Visualization System Format
divx   DivX-Encoded Movie
fcp   Final Cut Project
flc   FLIC Animation
fli   FLIC Animation
flv   Flash Video File
flx   FLIC Animation
mov   Apple QuickTime Movie
movie   QuickTime Movie File
mp4   MPEG-4 Video File
mpe   MPEG Movie File
mpeg   MPEG Video File
mpg   MPEG Video File
qt   Apple QuickTime Movie
rm   Real Media File
swf   Macromedia Flash Movie
swi   Swish Project File
wm   Windows Media File
wmd   Windows Media Download Package
wmv   Windows Media Video File

Image formats

3dmf   QuickDraw 3D Metafile
3ds   3D Studio Scene
ai   Adobe Illustrator
ais   ACDSee Image Sequence
bmp   Bitmap Image
cdr   CorelDRAW Image
cgm   Computer Graphics Metafile
cvx   Canvas 9 Image Format
gif   Graphical Interchange Format
iff   Amiga IFF Graphic
jpeg   JPEG Image
pdf   Adobe Portable Document
pic   Generic Picture
pict   Picture
png   Portable Network Graphic
psd   Photoshop Document
psp   Paint Shop Pro Image
qxd   QuarkXpress Document
svg   Scalable Vector Graphics
sxd   StarOffice Drawing
tif   Tagged Image File Format
wmf   Windows Metafile

3D model formats

3D XML   Catia 3D model
VRML   Generic 3D Virtual model
JT2Go   Unigraphics 3D model
eDrawings   SolidWorks model
DWF AutoCAD - TrueView

Microsoft Office formats

doc   Word
ppt   Powerpoint
xls    Excel

Office 2007 XML based file types are also supported.

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