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Third-party viewers

The Meridian Enterprise viewer can integrate simultaneously with multiple third-party viewers that support different file formats. To integrate with Meridian Enterprise, a third-party viewer must be an ActiveX control. Each file format can be associated with a different viewer. The viewing tools available for a particular file depend on the viewer associated with the file’s format.

The following third-party viewers (not included) are supported by Meridian Enterprise in addition to Oracle AutoVue, which is included with Meridian Enterprise.

Supported third-party viewers
Viewer Name
Adobe Reader⁴
Autodesk CAD Overlay ESP format¹
Autodesk DWF Viewer
Autodesk DWG TrueView⁶
Autodesk Inventor View 2010 or later
Autodesk NavisWorks Freedom¹
AutoVue 3D Professional Advanced²
GTX RasterCAD format¹
Hitachi Raster format¹
IGC Brava! Desktop⁵
Kodak Image Viewer
Microstation DGN format
Microsoft Excel Viewer
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
Microsoft Word Viewer
SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 or later
TopSolid'Viewer³
TSL CADRaster format¹

Notes

BlueCielo does not test all versions of the viewers listed in the preceding table. Version numbers that are shown indicate the versions that have been tested by BlueCielo. If a version number is not shown, specific versions might work but may not have been tested. Such versions will only receive basic technical support and might require upgrading for full functionality.

BlueCielo assumes no responsibility for the functionality or visual fidelity provided by third-party viewers or available within BlueCielo products integrated with such viewers.

Can be detected by Meridian Enterprise if support for it is installed on the computer . This is done by importing a registry file located in C:\Program Files\BC-Meridian\Program\Viewers as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User's Guide.
Not supported on 64-bit Windows. Three dimensional viewing is available from BlueCielo ECM Solutions as an additional cost option for AutoVue Enterprise Visualization. Each version of Meridian Enterprise is distributed with and supports specific versions of AutoVue.
Available upon request from BlueCielo ECM Solutions Technical Support.
Adobe Reader is supported whether installed stand-alone or by Adobe Acrobat Standard or Adobe Acrobat Pro. Version 11 requires release 11.0.09 or higher. The Draft Print privilege cannot prevent printing from Adobe Reader in Protected Mode. If you want to prevent printing, Protected Mode must be disabled and the user prevented from modifying the corresponding setting in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive of the Windows registry. Batch printing is not supported.
The following features are limited or not yet supported:
- Redlines
- Renditions and electronic signatures
- Watermarks
- Hotspots
- Text extraction for full-text search
- External reference files that reside in folders other than the location of the parent file will not resolve on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 if the user does not have write permission to the myrdrv.ini file that is located in the Brava program folder. Following are the recommended workarounds:
  - Install Brava in a location other than the Program Files (default) folder
  - The user runs PowerUser as an administrator of the PC
  - A system administrator grants write permission to the user for the myrdrv.ini file located in the Brava program folder.
  For a list of the supported file formats, see Brava! desktop supported file formats.
Through version 2014. Version 2015 can cause the viewer toolbar buttons to “stick” and requires pressing Esc to use other toolbar buttons.