Rendering

Function definition: Tools that support the rendering of digital resources so they can be viewed, printed, or otherwise accessed by users.

Lifecycle stage: Preservation Action

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
7-Zip	7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.
Calibre	An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others.
DANS DBF	DANS DBF Library is a Java library for reading and writing xBase database files.
Filzip	Filzip offers full support (add and extract) support for ZIP (including Quake III's PK3), BH (BlakHole), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), JAR (JavaARchive), LHA (LZH), TARand GZIP(TAR.
Grok	JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder
Gzip	gzip produces files with a .gz extension. gunzip can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)	A set of APIs, tools and protocols for manipulating and providing interoperable access to digital images
ImageMagick	ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images.
IrfanView	IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
JJ2000	Pure Java implementation of a JPEG2000 decoder
Kakadu	JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder
METS Navigator	METS-based system for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects.
MPlayerRR	A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers
MeshLab	A tool for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing, converting, and editing 3D triangular meshes.
Mplayer	A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers
Mutlivalent	Multivalent works on digital documents research and development.
NT (New Tool)	This is a presrvation tool
Open Office	OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
PDFsam	PDFsam splits and merges PDF files
Potree	A free open-source WebGL based point cloud renderer for large point clouds.
QGIS	QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS application that supports a wide range of raster and vector spatial data types.
Quick View Plus	View virtually all the files and e-mail attachments you need, instantly without purchasing numerous software programs.
Smithsonian Cook	Processing of 3D model, mesh, and texture data including the option to define custom processing workflows, where a set of files is processed by multiple tools.
Sumatra PDF	Open source, fast, PDF and eBook viewer
Tar	The Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation.
VLC Media Player	Cross platform audio and video player based primarily on the libavcodec.
Warc-proxy	Warc-proxy is a simple tool to view WARC content in Firefox
Warcit	Warcit is a command-line tool that converts directories (including nested directories), files (including HTML or other web assets and data files) and ZIP files to Web Archives (WARC).
Web Recorder Player	A tool that replays WARC files on your local computer.
WinZip	WinZip is the world's most popular Windows Zip utility for file compression, file sharing, file encryption, and data backup.
Xpdf	Open source PDF viewer that includes PDF information extractor and font analyzer