Generic file viewer for Windows

[cookie365]

Can anyone recommend a free Windows 7 app that will open to view and print a wide variety of file types?

I want it so that my mum can view email attachments (Tbird) in a consistent way regardless of the file type.

It has to open doc, docx, rtf, pdf, jpeg as a minimum.

Simplicity is key, view, print, nothing much more needed.

So far the most likely contender is File Viewer Lite
http://windowsfileviewer.com/

But it doesn't have a print button on the viewer (you can CTRL-P or access the file menu, but I want it as easy as possible) and I'm not sure whether it's a trustworthy app.

Any recommendations?

Thank you

[jim]

I know this doesn't meet your request (as it's not free and doesn't work with Tbird), but I'm pretty sure that Outlook 2013 does that for me.

The reason I mention it is because at least it's an all-in-one solution - you get the email, click on the attachment, and it opens in the same window.

[cookie365]

Thanks Jim, yes, the first option I looked at was to see if Tbird had an addon to make it preview attachments like Outlook does - it's what I use myself.

Unfortunately the level of use just doesn't justify buying Outlook unfortunately.

[TheAnimus]

the outlook.com webmail interface does most of this now?

[cookie365]

She uses gmx! And needless to say, the gmx webmail doesn't preview attachments - or at least didn't preview the docx and doc ones I tried.

I installed Windows Live Mail 2012 on my own PC to see what that was like; it does look a lot simpler than Tbird so I may see if she can swap to that, but that doesn't preview attachments either, so I'm back to looking for a generic viewer!

[tomasz]

You might have to settle on couple of applications to handle every file.
Infran Vew http://www.irfanview.com/ is a very good and lightweight one, especially for media, but it does not handle documents.

[cookie365]

Thanks tomasz - I'd looked at irfanview and already ruled it out for that very reason!

[Divo]

Have a look at

Apache OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org

Supported filetypes
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Doc...d/File_formats

[cookie365]

Divo, that's an interesting option, thank you. She does actually use LibreOffice for documents at the moment.

I've never had any joy opening pdfs to view in either Open or Libre - they both tend to OCR them as if you want to edit them, rather than just display the pdf as it is.

But if I can find a way around that, I suppose I could put OpenOffice portable on her laptop, customise the Draw and Writer apps to basically have a print and save button and nothing much else, and set Tbird to open attachments in that.

I'll experiement and see if I can get it working.

Thank you.