Software Companions - PDF, DWF, PLT and TIFF Viewing and Conversion Software

View, annotate and convert PDF, DWF, PLT, CGM, TIFF and CALS

Windows Desktop Applications


ViewCompanion Standard - dwf, plt and cgm viewer and converter

ViewCompanion Standard

ViewCompanion Standard is a powerful, but easy to use, application for viewing, printing and converting plotter files. ViewCompanion can open PLT plotter files using HPGL, HPGL/2, KIPGL, HP-RTL and Calcomp languages. In addition to plotter files you can view, print and convert Adobe PDF, CGM, Autodesk DWF and Gerber files. Conversion to PDF, PDF/A, TIFF, CALS, DWF, DXF, PNG and several other formats are available.
Annotate your files using the available markup tools which includes stamps, text, symbols, barcodes, dimension lines, measurement areas and other shapes.

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Multi-format viewer and converter

ViewCompanion Pro

ViewCompanion Pro can view, print, compare and convert Adobe PDF, Autodesk DWF, PLT, CGM, TIFF, CALS, PNG, HPGL/2 and other formats.
Annotate your files using stamps, dimension lines, measurement areas, text, highlights, barcodes, notes, symbols, revision clouds and other shapes.
Use ViewCompanion to convert your files into a number of different formats including PDF, PDF/A, DWF, DXF, TIFF, SVG, CALS, JPEG, PNG and HPGL/2.
Both batch convert and batch print functions are included.
With ViewCompanion Pro you may combine and spilt PDF files.

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Multi-format viewer and converter

ViewCompanion Premium

ViewCompanion Premium is the most powerful ViewCompanion edition and includes all functionality from the Standard and Pro editions. View, print, compare, annotate and convert file formats like PDF, DWF, TIFF, PLT, EDMICS, Intergraph Raster, CGM, CALS and PNG.
Premium adds a PDF to CAD tool that can be used to convert your PDF files to an editable CAD format, for example Autodesk DXF or SVG. You can use your scanner from Premium to create a new multipage TIFF or PDF. Advanced raster editing tools like deskew, defox, rotate, resize, erase and clean-up are available.
Premium can merge, spilt and compare PDF files. You can use Premium to convert your existing PDF files to PDF/A for archiving.

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Gerber viewer and converter

GerbView

GerbView™ lets you view, print, and convert Gerber, PDF, ODB++, Excellon, HPGL-2 and other formats.
It supports both RS-274D and RS-274X Gerber standards, allowing you to easily convert older Gerber files to the newer extended Gerber (RS-274X) format.
Create multi-layered PDF, DWF, or DXF files from multiple PCB layers with just a few clicks.
Use the PDF to CAD feature to convert PDF drawings back into editable Gerber or DXF files for further design work.
Add text, barcodes and other information to your Gerber layers using the built in annotation feature.
With advanced measurement and query features, you can quickly inspect apertures, distances, and areas for full design verification. GerbView also includes a visual comparison tool that highlights differences between Gerber layers, helping you catch design changes or errors before production.

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Software Solutions

Printing and Plotting

Printing and plotting in ViewCompanion

Print your files using advanced options like n-up printing and poster printing. Print scaled or fit to page. Add watermark, header and footer to your printed documents. Batch print is available in all editions.
ViewCompanion can print your files to all printer devices supported by Windows.


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File Format Conversion

File format conversion

Convert your files to Adobe PDF, PDF/A, TIFF, Autodesk DWF, DXF and more. With ViewCompanion you have full control of the conversion process; convert file by file, batch convert multiple files, combine several files and create a new multi-page file (TIFF or PDF), or split a multi-page document into smaller files.


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Markup and Annotation

Annotate your files with ViewCompanion

Use ViewCompanion to add stamps, dimension lines, measurement areas, highlights, text, notes, symbols, pictures, polygons and other shapes. With the markup measurement tools you may perform a digital takeoff. Annotations can be included when you print or convert the file.


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Developer Tools

ActiveX multi-format viewer and converter

scViewerX

scViewerX is an ActiveX that can view, print, annotate, and convert PDF, DWF, PLT, CGM, TIFF, CALS, Gerber and other formats. ScViewerX can convert your files to a number of output file formats, including PDF, PDF/A, TIFF, DXF, DWF, CALS and PNG. You may use the PDF to CAD functionality to convert your PDF files back to an editable CAD file, using for example using the DXF format.
scViewerX contains more than 300 methods, properties and events. You will find methods for merging, splitting and encrypting PDF files, comparing drawings, deskewing images, extracting text, printing, converting, adding annotations and much more.

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scConverter multi-format converter

scConverter

scConverter™ is a DLL component that can convert PDF, DWF, Gerber, CGM, TIFF, CALS, PLT, PNG and JPEG files to many different output formats. The list of available output formats includes PDF, PDF/A, DXF, DWF, CALS, TIFF, PLT, JPEG and PNG. You may add annotations like text, stamps, barcodes and other drawings shapes to the converted file by using the XML markup format.
You can merge multiple PDF files into a single multipage PDF file, or split a large multipage PDF file into smaller files with one or more pages each.
With the included PDF to CAD functionality you can convert a PDF file into an editable CAD file, for example using Autodesk DXF output format.

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