Earlier we did a review on google drive, a service like many of the other cloud based storage services with desktop sync. We have compiled a list of file types that Google Drive now supports with their online viewer below. While there is support for many types of files, take notice to the important ones that are missing like .raw and .dng. Photographers will be very disappointed with this one as these are the two main file formats used among them. Picasa does support both file types, but some users would like to use Google Drive as a Picasa replacement as the overall user experience is better in Google Drive in my opinion.
Supported file types
Google Drive viewer helps you preview over 16 different file types, listed below:
- Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
- Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
- Apple Pages (.PAGES)
- Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
- Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
- Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
- Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
- PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
- TrueType (.TTF)
- XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
- Archive file types (.ZIP and .RAR)
- Text files (.TXT)
- Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS)
- Images (.jpeg, png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp)
- WebM files (Vp8 video codec; Vorbis Audio codec)
- .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files – (h264 and mpeg4 video codecs; AAC audio codec)
- .AVI (MJPEG video codec; PCM audio)
- .MPEGPS (MPEG2 video codec; MP2 audio)
- .WMV
- .FLV (Adobe – FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)
