Online Document Viewer: every tool and its size limit
4/5/2024

Online Document Viewer: every tool and its size limit

The rebuilt site, stated plainly: which viewer takes which extensions, the size limit on each, and why the converters accept smaller files than viewers.

The site was rebuilt. The job is unchanged: upload a file, read it, close it, no account. What follows is what is on it now and what each part accepts, because the question people actually arrive with is "will it take my file".

Not sure which tool you need? Drop the file on the viewer and it routes itself.

Online Document Viewer
Online Document Viewer

Viewers

ViewerExtensionsLimit
PDFpdf25 MB
Worddoc, docx, odt, rtf, docm, dot, dotx, dotm, ott15 MB
Excelxls, xlsx, csv, ods, xlsm, xlsb, xltx, xltm20 MB
PowerPointppt, pptx, odp, pptm, ppsx, ppsm, pot, potx, potm20 MB
CADdwg, dxf, dgn10 MB
PSDpsd25 MB
Emaileml, msg, emlx10 MB
Visiovsd, vsdx, vss, vssx, vst, vstx, vdx, vsx, vsdm25 MB
Projectmpp, mpx20 MB
TIFFtiff, tif25 MB
Imagejpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, webp, jpe, avif25 MB
Vector & raw imagetiff, tif, svg, webp, ico, dng, cdr, cmx, tga, eps, emf, wmf, jp225 MB
eBookepub25 MB
RTFrtf15 MB
HTMLhtml, htm, mhtml, mht5 MB
XMLxml5 MB
Texttxt, rtf, xml, html, mhtml, xps5 MB

Macro-enabled files — docm, xlsm, pptm — render. Nothing in them executes.

Converters, and the limit that catches people

A converter accepts less than the viewer for the same format, sometimes much less. Converting rewrites the document; viewing only draws it.

ConverterInOutLimit
PDFpdfWord, DOC, Excel, PowerPoint, PNG, JPG25 MB
Worddoc, docxPDF, JPG, PNG15 MB
Excelxls, xlsxPDF, JPG, PNG5 MB
PowerPointppt, pptxPDF, JPG, PNG20 MB
Imagepng, jpg, jpegPDF, WebP, TIFF25 MB
CADdwg, dxfPDF, JPG, PNG5 MB
Emailmsg, emlPDF, HTML10 MB

Excel is the widest gap and the one that surprises people: the Excel viewer takes 20 MB, Excel to PDF takes 5. CAD is the same shape — 10 MB to look at a drawing, 5 MB to turn it into a PDF.

Converters also take fewer extensions. The Word viewer opens nine; the Word converter takes two. ODT, RTF and the template variants have to be saved as .docx first.

Over the limit

Usually images. In Word, Excel or PowerPoint: click a picture, Picture Format, Compress Pictures, tick "delete cropped areas", pick 150 ppi, save under a new name. For a spreadsheet, Ctrl+End shows where the used range really ends — delete the empty rows below it and save again.

What did not change

No account, no sign-up. One file at a time. The file is deleted after viewing, and the rendering engine underneath is the Doconut .NET library.