RichReader is a powerful and inexpensive Doc reader with formatting capabilities that most other readers can't match.
The freeware version provides most of the same formatting capabilities except the enhanced font styles and sizes.
Not only does the RichReader Freeware provide advanced features (such as screen rotation and wildcard search) that other shareware and commercial readers are lacking, but it is also free!
However, the rich font styles and sizes of the full version of RichReader will convince you to purchase the shareware version.
The following is a list of features which are COMMON to both versions:
COLOR TEXT!
Three styles of paragraph justification: Left, Center, Right
Long Word wrapping
Horizontal lines
Tables
Paragraph indenting: First Line and Left indenting.
Bookmarks
Up to 200.
Automatically created from Heading styles in Word and HTML.
Bookmarks attached to plain "Doc" files.
Manually added bookmarks.
Categories
Up to 30 user defined categories can be created.
Find
Search string can use wildcard characters
Case of letters is ignored
Rotate the View screen
Clockwise or Counter-clockwise 90°.
Windows conversion applications:
RRConverter.exe converters RTF, HTML, PDF, and TXT files.
RTF2Doc.exe and WRTF2Doc.exe for converting Word (RTF) files.
HTML2Doc.exe for converting HTML files.
PDFtoRR.exe for converting PDF files.
Linux conversion applications (emailed upon request).
Large and Small View Controls.
The following is a list of features which are MISSING from the Freeware version:
Extra fonts. Unlike the Shareware version, the Freeware version displays all documents in the Medium Normal font.
The Freeware version will read documents which contain these formatting codes but will ignore them so you can view documents created by the converter applications without any problems.
Update Description:
New: A PDF to RichReader converter! It is based on the xpdf package from Derek B. Noonburg.
The Windows converter is included in the ZIP file.
Send me an email if you want to try the Linux converter.
