About Viewer Control and Viewer Light Control

There are two features for you to work with DocuWorks files in your web browser: Viewer Control and Viewer Light Control.
Note
For a list of web browsers supported for use with the products, refer to operating environment for DocuWorks 9.1 and DocuWorks Viewer Light 9.1 described in our official website.

Viewer Control

Installing DocuWorks also installs Viewer Control.
It shows DocuWorks files located on a web page or those embedded in a web page in your web browser on a per page basis. It also allows you to edit the files by switching to edit mode.
The edited files can be uploaded to a web server.

Viewer Light Control

Installing Viewer Light also installs Viewer Light Control.
It shows DocuWorks files in your web browser on a per page basis. It doesn't provide any editing capabilities.

Settings to open DocuWorks files in the web browser

If you selected Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome at installation as a web browser to view DocuWorks documents, you need to make some settings for each of your web browsers.
Note
  • If you omit these steps, DocuWorks documents will be downloaded instead of being displayed in the web browser.
    For Microsoft Edge (Internet Explorer mode), these steps are not needed.
  • If you want to share the websites config with another PC or another web browser, you can use the feature for exporting/importing the config file.
    For information on the config file, refer to "Exporting/importing the config" in Setting Websites That Display DocuWorks Documents.
Procedure
1.
Enable extensions.
Note
For information on how to enable extensions, refer to the official site for the web browser you are using, and Enabling the Extension for the Web Browser.
2.
Set websites that display DocuWorks documents.
Note
For information on how to set websites that display DocuWorks documents, refer to Setting Websites That Display DocuWorks Documents.