{"id":15234,"date":"2011-02-21T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:04:20","slug":"12-new-file-formats-for-the-google-docs-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/12-new-file-formats-for-the-google-docs-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"12 new file formats for the Google Docs Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <strong>Google Docs<\/strong>, to such an extent that I don&#8217;t have any productivity suite installed on my Mac at home \u2013 I just use Google Docs for everything. This is why I was <a href=\"http:\/\/googledocs.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html\">happy to read<\/a> that Google is adding <strong>12 new file types to Google Docs Viewer<\/strong>, the tool you&#8217;ve been using so far to open PDF files that you found online or were attached to an email message.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15235\" title=\"Google Docs Viewer\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/docs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/docs.jpg 517w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/docs-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 12 new file types supported by Google Docs Viewer are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 \/ 2010 (.PPTX)<\/li>\n<li>Apple Pages (.PAGES)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Illustrator (.AI)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)<\/li>\n<li>Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)<\/li>\n<li>Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)<\/li>\n<li>PostScript (.EPS, .PS)<\/li>\n<li>TrueType (.TTF)<\/li>\n<li>XML Paper Specification (.XPS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to the support for these types, from now on you&#8217;ll be able to open <strong>all the major Microsoft Office formats<\/strong> (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS and XLSX) plus a bunch of important <strong>document and image formats<\/strong> like PSD and AI right in Google Docs Viewer \u2013 a faster and safer option that downloading them to your hard drive and opening them on your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Google Docs, to such an extent that I don&#8217;t have any productivity suite installed on my Mac at home \u2013 I just use Google Docs for everything. This is why I was happy to read that Google is adding 12 new file types to Google Docs Viewer, the tool you&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/12-new-file-formats-for-the-google-docs-viewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;12 new file formats for the Google Docs Viewer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2608],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-docs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334425,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions\/334425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}