In Air Sharing, you can view not only the myriad standard file formats that are supported by Safari, including web content, video, audio, images, and plain text, but also many other types of documents. A few of these are illustrated by the documents in Air Sharing’s Samples folder. For documents that span multiple pages, Air Sharing saves your viewing position when you are done viewing, and restores that position when you view again. Page Up and Page Down buttons in the viewer help you scan quickly through a long document.
File Extensions
Like most desktop operating systems, Air Sharing recognizes the type of a file by its file-name extension. For example, a .doc file is interpreted as a Microsoft Word document. If you remove the file extension from a document name, Air Sharing will not be able to view it.
In addition to viewing folders of web content, Air Sharing can view web pages saved from Safari for Mac OS X as Web Archives. Web archives package the text, images, and other content of a web page in a single file for offline viewing. Web archives may be mailed from the document viewer toolbar.
Air Sharing also lets you view iWork documents (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers). For the most accurate viewing results, save your iWork documents with the "Include preview in document" option.
In addition to the standard RTF format, Air Sharing lets you view RTFD documents, that is, RTF documents with embedded images. RTFD documents cannot be printed, however.
Thanks to the iOS native support for Office file formats, Air Sharing lets you view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Support for Office 2007 formats (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx) is limited. Word documents may be emailed from the document viewer toolbar.
Air Sharing lets you view source code files with syntax color coding. Supported formats include C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, shell scripts, XML, and Property Lists. Many other source formats can be viewed as plain text. Source code and plain text files may be printed, and emailed from the document viewer toolbar.
Air Sharing's image viewer lets you view images in the standard formats supported by the iOS. Special image buffering allows you to view even high-resolution images.
Images may be printed, emailed and saved to Apples Photo applicationfrom the document viewer toolbar.
Air Sharing’s proprietary PDF viewer is much more stable with large PDF documents than the iOS built-in PDF viewer, which is used by Safari, Mail, and most other iOS apps. It also includes advanced functions such as thumbnail selection and navigation through a table of contents.
These functions are accessed via Actions icon in the bottom right of the document viewer toolbar.
Touching “Table of Contents” will bring up a table of contents view of the PDF document.
The thumbnail view allows quick access to a document section. Tap a header to jump to the corresponding page. Tap the blue arrow beside a topic to delve into its subtopics.
PDF documents may be printed and emailed from the Actions button in the document viewer toolbar.
Adobe Illustrator files can also be viewed when saved as "PDF Compatible".