About Previewer

StreamServe Previewer enables you to use external applications to preview output from your StreamServe Project. For example, you can preview PDF output in Acrobat Reader.

StreamServer sends the data to be previewed to the external application via TCP/IP. The output is displayed on screen in the associated viewer.

The connection between StreamServer and Previewer is established on a per-machine basis, not per user.

Requirements

If you run Previewer on a separate machine, you must make sure it can be accessed over the network. Note that you cannot run Previewer in a Terminal Server or Citrix environment.

You must have the appropriate external preview application installed, for example Adobe Acrobat reader to preview PDF files. If Previewer cannot recognize the file format, it will treat the file as if it was ASCII text.

For information on how to associate file types with applications, see the Windows documentation.

Supported formats and viewers

File format	Viewer
PDF	Adobe Acrobat Reader
PCL5	PCL viewer
PS	Ghostview
TIFF	Image
DCX	Image
TXT	Windows Notepad