MangoApps Document Viewer
MangoApps ships with an inline document viewer for opening more than 45 file types. The end user does not need to download or install any additional software normally required by other document viewers. You can zoom in, view, and copy information from documents right from the web or desktop. By the end of this document we will have answered your questions including:
What is the MangoApps document Viewer?
What User Actions are available in the MangoApps Document Viewer?
What browsers does the MangoApps Document Viewer work on?
What document file types are supported by the MangoApps Document Viewer?
What is the maximum file size the MangoApps Document Viewer can display?
What is the MangoApps document viewer?
The MangoApps Document Viewer allows users to view any kind of document as fast as possible without downloading or installing anything on the client side. The MangoApps Document Viewer uses state-of-the-art conversion methodologies to render documents on the fly. Included with the viewer is a unique set of user actions to render, enrich, and dynamically view and act on content.
What user actions are available in the MangoApps document viewer?
Depending on the document file type, user actions include:
Zoom in or out using the + or – zoom buttons.
File Access Tracking, see what has happened to the file.
Fit your document to the width of the window.
Navigate quickly through multiple pages of the document.
Select and copy content from the document.
Check out the document, preventing co-workers you are working on it.
Initiate document Approval, ability to create workflow for a document.
Add comments, these will also display actions made to the document.
Switch to full screen document viewing.
What browsers will the MangoApps document viewer work on?
The MangoApps Document Viewer will work on 99% of modern browsers as long as JavaScript is enabled. The shortened list of modern browsers that are certified with the MangoApps Document Viewer includes: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later. Internet Explorer 10 or lower is not supported.
What document file types are supported by the MangoApps online (browser) document Viewer?
Currently MangoApps browser document viewer supports more than 50 document types and the list continues to grow. The supported file types are listed below.
DOCX ODT SXC SXW STC STW FODS FODT UOS UOT | PPT PPTX CSV DIF XLT DOCBOOK XSL XLSX MSG(Outlook Email) DOC | HTM OTT PPSX XLA XLTM DOTM WPS HTML POTX | GDOC HTM RTF CSV ODP XML MOBI DOT DOCM | ODS POTM DOTX TXT GDOC ZIP(Extraction) RAR(Extraction) |
TIP: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. (Internet Explorer 10 or lower is not supported)
What document file types are supported by the MangoApps iOS app on iPhone/iPad?
iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) comes with the preloaded universal document viewer and MangoApps application uses the same to render following types of documents/media
COMPRESSED | AUDIO | VIDEO | IMAGES | DOCUMENTS |
ZIP | M4A WAV AIF AIFF MP3 AAC OGG ALAC | MP4 MOV(Quick Time) M4V 3GP WMV MPG MKV AVI FLV | JPEG PNG TIFF DIB ICO CUR XBM JPG GIF | DOC DOCX XLS XLSX PPT PPTX TXT RTF Google Docs |
TIP: Open Office documents are not supported on iOS devices.
A detailed documentation can be found here – https://support.apple.com/kb/PH16864?locale=en_US
What document file types are supported by the MangoApps Android application?
As Android OS does not comes with the preloaded (universal) documents/media viewer and that’s why the end user need to install third party apps to view the following types of content on the phone.
COMPRESSED | AUDIO | VIDEO | IMAGES | DOCUMENTS |
ZIP | MP3 MIDI 3GPP (.3gp) MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a) WAV OGG | 3GPP MPEG-4 MP4 WebM MKV (Android 4.0+) AVI FLV | BMP GIF JPEG PNG WebP(Android 4.0+) HEIF (Android 8.0+) | DOC DOCX PPT PPTX XLS XLSX TXT RTF Google Docs CSV HTM/HTML |
A detailed documentation can be found here https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats
TIP:
MangoApps iOS Android application stream the audio and video files, as we convert all of the media (audio and video files) to the MP3 and MP4 formats.
The XLS containing Macros or having Pivot tables will have limited support on the MangoApps.
TIP: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. (Internet Explorer 10 or lower is not supported)
What is the maximum file size the MangoApps document viewer can display?
There is a 100 MB file size limit for documents that can be viewed by the file viewer.
Questions about document viewer for MangoApps?
We’d be happy to hear from you by email: support@mangoapps.com or inform your CSM/TAM to answer any questions you may have about our product.
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