Software Companions - Gerber, PLT and HPGL Viewing and Conversion Software

Viewing and Conversion Software

ViewCompanion Premium
Updates

The latest update will always include all previous fixes and improvements

ViewCompanion Premium
Version What's New Released
9.22 Minor update.
Fixed Errors:
IssueDescription
764CGM file from customer failed to open.
772Some PLT files caused application to hang if PGLSupport was enabled.
767Compressed CGM files failed to open.
---Doing print preview could sometimes cause a crash if classic toolbar/menu interface was used.

22-AUG-2015

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9.21 Minor update.
Fixed Errors:
IssueDescription
763CGM files from customer loaded with wrong extents.
762Missing French and Portuguese characters in PLT file from customer.
758Extremely slow rendering of some pages in PDF file from customer.

10-AUG-2015

Downloads:

No longer available, please download 9.22 or newer instead.

9.20 Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
NoDescription
1Added support for Clear Text encoded CGM files.
2Added support for PGL plotter files, this is a variant of HPGL/2 that is compressed using GZIP.
3Calibration now works better while zooming and panning.
4Markup measurement text is now placed in center of area by default.
5Drawing markup measurement area and dimension line while zooming and panning now works as expected.
6Drawing a new dimension line now displays a dimension line using the current settings.
7Current measured distance is now displayed while drawing a new dimension line.
8Current measured area is now displayed while drawing a new measurement area.
Fixed Errors:
IssueDescription
756CGM clear text files failed to open.
755Splitting a large DWF file to single page DWF files could cause a crash.
754Text in CGM file from customer had wrong height.
752PGL files failed to open.
751Missing French characters in HPGL/2 file from customer.
-Markup line width will no longer affect dimension line text.

26-JUL-2015

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9.11 Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
NoDescription
1PDF417 barcode format is now available in the add barcode dialog.
2Added default line width setting for CGM files (used if no linewidth is set in the file).
3Added default line cap style setting for CGM files.
4Added setting for enabling/disabling the use of TrueType fonts in CGM files.
Fixed Errors:
IssueDescription
753Zero length lines in HPGL file from customer was converted to raster using two pixels instead of one.
748Printing PDF files on paper sizes larger than A4/Letter could fail (only white page output).
750Some CGM text was displayed with wrong height.
744Missing line widths in CGM file from customer.
743Some CGM files were created with wrong extents (the physical size measured in mm or inch).
740Page two in PDF file from customer failed to open.
-The CGM exporter could in some cases set wrong line width for drawing elements.

24-JUN-2015

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9.10 Feature update.
All changes included in this update are listed below. You will find more details about some of the new features on the ViewCompanion Premium 9.10 release information page.
News features and improvements:
NoDescription
1PDF Bookmarks are now listed in the Outlook Bar (New bookmark section).
2New PDF Merge tool added. This tool will merge several PDF files into a single multipage PDF file. All PDF data (markup, text and more) will be retained.
3New PDF Partitioning tool added. This tool can be used to split large PDF files into smaller PDF files of one or more pages. The maximum size of each output file (in bytes) is user defined.
4MarkupXML: Rubber Stamp center and size parameters can now be defined using the percentage of the actual drawing page size. Stamp rotation can now be defined as well.
5MarkupXML: Text center and height parameters can now be defined using the percentage of the actual drawing page size.
6New command line parameter for merging several PDF files added, see cmpdf for more information.
Fixed Errors:
IssueDescription
737PDF files with wrong page size (caused by PDF user unit).
734Invisible text in PDF files was incorrectly exported to DXF and other formats.
733Calcomp plotter files from customer failed to open.
731CALS file from customer failed to open.
727A PDF file from customer was not detected as PDF format.
726Some files TIFF from customer failed to convert to PDF (CCITTG4 compression error).
-PDF split page tool failed for some PDF files.
-CGM exporter could in some cases create corrupt CGM files.

12-MAY-2015

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9.06 Maintenance update.
Error Fixes:
IssueDescription
719Converting HPGL/2 file from customer to PDF using rotation gave offset errors.
718Missing drawing information when converting from PDF to DXF.
716Missing text when converting PDF file from customer to DXF.
715PDF file from customer was not detected as PDF format.
712Command line conversion of PDF to TIFF created corrupted files.
711Batch conversion of PDF files to TIFF or other formats created corrupted files.
706Some text in HPGL file from customer was not displayed correct.
702Conversion from PDF, PLT and other formats to SVG now includes raster images.
-Markup text with several lines using RTL (Hebrew/Arabic) caused only one line to be displayed.
-Markup undo sometimes gave strange results.
-Updated PDF reader.

28-FEB-2015

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9.05 Maintenance update.
Bug Fixes:
BugDescription
701PDF file from customer caused a crash.
700PDF to CAD: Wrong text spacing in file from customer.
647Layer dialog was only available for the first page of a multi-page DWF file.
646Rotated view of compared PDF files was not correct.
645On some systems ViewCompanion could create corrupt PDF files (very rare bug).
-PDF to CAD: Some files converted with incorrect rotation.
-PDF to CAD: Missing curves when converting file from customer.
-PDF to CAD: Some files had wrong colors when converted.
-Updated PDF reader.

19-JAN-2015

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9.02 Maintenance update.
Bug Fixes:
BugDescription
643PDF to CAD: PDF to DXF: Missing filled arrows when converting PDF file from customer to DXF.
642Measurement continued to show invalid results in tooltip after measurement was completed.
641Wrong format was displayed as default when opening batch conversion dialog when last used format was not PDF.
640PDF to CAD: Conversion of file from customer to DXF gave wrong colors.
639PDF to CAD: Invalid extreme coordinates in converted DXF file.
638PDF to CAD: Wrong font used for conversion.
637PDF to CAD: Missing filled rectangles in file from customer.
-Fixed a problem with polygon and rectangle eraser on some graphics cards when using high quality markup drawing (GDI+).
-A filled area is now displayed while drawing measurement area, polygon and polygon eraser.

2-NOV-2014

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9.01 Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
NoDescription
1Compare now works for multi-page PDF files. You can compare page by page in two multipage PDF files.
2Conversion to 1-bit PNG file now uses dithering.
3Converting multipage PDF to TIFF is now faster and requires less memory.
Bug Fixes:
BugDescription
636PDF extract vector information function failed for some files (wrong coordinates and missing information).
635Measurement snap was snapping to center of circles far away from current mouse position.
634Batch converting files from customer caused ViewCompanion to crash.
633In some situations ViewCompanion created distorted GIF files (dependent on dpi and scale combinations).
628Missing solid fill for elements in CGM file from customer.

1-OCT-2014

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9.00 Major release.
You'll find the press release here.
New Features:
NoDescription
1You can now extract vector data from a PDF file and save to DXF, DWF, CGM and PLT.
This kind of functionality is also commonly known as PDF to CAD.
2Added support for WIA scanner interface.
3The updated Shell Extension can now display a full preview inside Windows Explorer.
4Added support for new file format: ECW (enhanced compression wavelet).
5New Movie Maker tool makes it possible to convert multiple files into a single AVI movie file.
Each page in a converted file becomes one frame in the AVI file (configurable frame length).
6Uses a new improved PDF reader which is faster and require less memory.
7New Premium Tools ribbon category for additional raster and pdf tools.
8New raster tool: Clear rectangular raster area.
9New raster tool: Cleanup raster will remove noise for the image.
10New raster tool: Flip page vertically.
11New raster tool: Burn-in markup to make a markup element permanent part of a raster image.
12New PDF Tool: Protect an existing PDF file with a password.
13Markup insert symbol dialog now has list of recently used symbols.
14Added option to toggle "show on all pages" on/off for markup elements. This makes it easy to display e.g. a stamp or image on all pages.
15Added support for adding Datamatrix 2D barcode as a markup element.
16Markup text quality has been improved. Text should now look much better in most cases.
17New feature for copying a part of the displayed drawing and then add this part to symbol library.
18New feature for pasting an image from clipboard and adding it as a symbol to a library.
19Markup stamps and symbols are now available from the Ribbon interface.
20This update is compatible with Windows 8.1, Windows XP (SP3), Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012, 7 and 8 (all editions).

Bug Fixes:

BugDescription
632Pen table line end settings did only apply to the first page in an exported multipage file.
631File was not displayed with correct initial rotation (even if use original rotate option was enabled).
629DWF file from customer not displayed at all.
627Wrong font used for HPGL/2 file from customer.
626Symbol library manager: Delete symbol did in some rare cases delete the wrong symbol from a library.
625Symbol library manager: Adding symbols smaller than 32x32 pixels caused them to be misaligned.
---Orthogonal mode didn't work for markup dimension line.
---HP-RTL exporter didn't support export of multi-page files.
---Improved the DWF importer with support for many previously unsupported raster image types.
---Added 32-bit image support to the PLT exporter.
---Added 32-bit image support to the DWF exporter.
---Resolution (dpi, or actually pixels per meter) was not written for exported BMP files.
---Mirror and flip display settings sometimes didn't work for monochrome raster images.
---Exporting a file with markup text to CGM could cause some of the text to be missing.
---The file association dialog is moved to a separate application launched in admin mode.
---The splash screen is now by default off.
---Several memory leaks fixed (related to dwf loading, conversion to cgm, and raster undo operations).

15-SEP-2014

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Older Updates:
Updates for version 8.xx
Updates for version 7.xx
Updates for version 6.xx
Updates for version 5.xx
Updates for version 4.xx
Updates for version 3.xx