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Google Docs Viewer adds 12 new file types
Google Docs is getting better and better at replacing desktop office software. Today, Google added support for 12 new file types in Google Docs Viewer, including all remaining Microsoft Office file types, Apple's Pages format, and Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator files. A few important niche document types made the cut, too. Designers rejoice, because TrueType fonts and vector graphics files are now supported. Engineers and architects, you've now got support for AutoCAD files. Here's the full list of a dozen new things you can view and share in Google Docs:
- Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
- Apple Pages (.PAGES)
- Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
- Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
- Autodesk AutoCAD (.DXF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
- PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
- TrueType (.TTF)
- XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
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Subscribe to commentsBryan PriceFeb 18th 2011 8:11PM
I will definitely have to remember this. I had to help a friend who was dealing with an email attachment with a PAGES file. I simply unarchived them and sent the underlying PDFs back to them. There really wasn't much information out there on handling them when I used Filext to check the extension. Which as I read again, really has gone over the hill and is more about advertising services than actually giving any real help on what format extensions might be. Nothing on file-ext.com and wotsit.org either. Or it's been so long that Filext has gone from giving technical descriptions of extension.
James LatimerFeb 20th 2011 2:17PM
Not to be snarky, but DXF is a standard drawing format and not independent to AutoCAD.
It is quite literally a text file.