Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Viewers are a 3rd party component for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3. This update brings the Viewer support level up to the same level as released for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Build 1436). Most enhancements are in the PDF Viewer functionality.

• This software contains Excel, PowerPoint, Word and PDF viewers. See the Release Notes for more information.
  
  This release contains the following enhancements to the PDF Viewer:
  • General performance enhancements
  • The imaging model has been modified to allow the PDF Viewer to load a larger variety of images, with higher color depths, using less memory and with reduced processing time.
  • The most common types of embedded JBIG2 images.
  • Line join features are now supported.
  • Image rotation is now supported.
  • Support for images with 16 bit per pixel and 2 bit per pixel components have been added to this release.
  • Limited annotations are supported.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Westtek File Viewers 6 Release Notes.htm SHA1: 83c13a86d3f8b1528283ffd99f97f77da7f06399	9 KB
WesttekFileViewers6_CE6_6.2.1437.exe SHA1: 75130c6f75b84ee526b2cb0e7b1de033d210c78d	258.49 MB

• Hardware requirements:
  • PC with 933 MHz or faster processor. 2 GHz recommended
  • 512 MB of RAM; 1GB recommended
  • 18 GB of available space on installation drive
  • 1 GB of available space on system drive
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Monitor that supports 1024 x 768 screen resolution with 16-bit color
  
  Required Software:
  • Windows Embedded CE 6.0
  • Visual Studio 2005 (except Express)
  • Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
  • Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista (if applicable)
  • Windows Embedded CE 6.0 SP1 (required if PB 6.0 Tools have been installed)
  • Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2
  • Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

• Select the file you want to download and then do one of the following:
  1. To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run.
  2. To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save