Java HTML and RTF Viewer

Java HTML and RTF Viewer is a simplistic piece of software developed in Java, which helps you open HTML and RTF-formatted files to read their contents. Before proceeding any further, you should know that this tool acts as a plain viewer, as its name suggests. It doesn't support any kind of editing options.

No setup required, besides Java

The entire program's packed in a single executable .jar file that can be saved to a preferred directory on the disk or copied to a removable storage unit, in order to seamlessly launch it on any computer with Java. It doesn't change the system registry settings or create files on the disk without letting you know about it. To get rid of it, you just have to delete this file.

Simple viewer for HTML and RTF docs

When it comes to the interface, Java HTML and RTF Viewer opts for a single window with a minimalistic appearance and neatly structured layout, inviting you to locate and open an HTML or RTF file by resorting to the file browser.
If the files contain tables or graphical elements, they will be stripped off in the viewer. Hyperlinks are supported, however, and they can be launched in the default web browser by just clicking on them. We've also noticed that it doesn't support some special characters, being replaced by empty squares in our tests.
There is no context menu available. However, you can select text and copy it to the Clipboard by triggering the Ctrl+C combination. There are no other noteworthy features implemented by this piece of kit.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues throughout our evaluation, thanks to the fact that the software utility didn't hang, crash or indicate errors. It left a small footprint on system resources, as it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly.
All in all, Java HTML and RTF Viewer comes packed with a pretty poor set of features for displaying the contents of HTML and RTF documents. It hasn't received updates for a long time, though.