A good viewer for photoshop, indesign and illustrator files.

Hello everyone.
I work at an designers firm, and we are avid users of the Adobe Creative Suite. However, it's expensive software, and certain people at the company only have to view the files we create. It's a bit of a hassle to create PDFs for them, and it's expensive to get full CS6 licenses for people who just view the software.
So my question is: is there any good software to view these file types simultaneously?
Thanks!

Any bog standard image viewer like IrfanView can display PSDs - if they are saved with maximum compatibility. Of course without any color management, so colors may be off and CMYK files look whacky. Other than that your chances are slim. Without the proprietary Adobe libraries in place there is simply no way to "understand" ID and AI files beyond the occasional icon thumbnail based on the PDF-compatible data in the file...
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