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Previewing Documents

How to preview

Select a document in the Documents list to open its preview.

What you will see, by file type

File type Preview experience
PDF Shown inline in the preview window.
Image (JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, SVG) Shown inline.
Some generated/converted documents Shown inline as formatted content.
Word documents (DOCX) and other unsupported types Preview not available for this file type. Use Download instead.

Why some files download instead of previewing

Not every file type can be safely rendered in the browser. Where SureSign cannot generate an inline preview, it tells you clearly and offers Download so you can open the file with the appropriate application on your own device.

If a preview fails to load

You will see: "Could not load preview. The file may be missing or inaccessible." See Troubleshooting: Preview unavailable.