ViewCompanion File Format Support
File formats that can be opened by ViewCompanion for viewing, annotation and conversion
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| AVIF | AVIF |  |
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| BMP | Windows Bitmap Format | |
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| CAL | CALS type 1 and 2 | |
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| CIT,TG4,RLE | Intergraph type 9, 24, 27 and 65 | |
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| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile | |
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| DCX | Multipage PCX | |
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| DRL | Excellon Drill Format | |
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| DWF, DWFX | Autodesk Design Web Format (2D) | |
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| ECW | Enhanced Compression Wavelet | |
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| EMF, EMZ | Enhanced Windows Metafile | |
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| GBR, GBX, PHO | Gerber RS-274D and RS-274X | |
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| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
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| HEIC | HEIC Image Format (also known as HEIF) | |
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| IDW | Autodesk Inventor Drawing 1 | |
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| JP2 | JPEG2000 | |
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| JPG | JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | |
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| JXL | JPEG XL | |
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| PCX | PC Paintbrush | |
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| Adobe PDF | |
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| PLT, HP2 | HPGL/2, KIPGL and HP-RTL Plotter Files | |
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| PLT, 907 | Calcomp Plotter Files | |
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| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | |
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| PSD | Adobe Photoshop | |
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| SFF | Structured File Format | |
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| TG4 | EDMICS C4 Tiled Group 4 | |
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| TGA | Truevision Targa | |
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| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | |
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| TXT | Text | |
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| WEBP | Google Image Format for the WEB | |
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| WMF | Windows Metafile Format | |
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Notes:
1. The Autodesk Inventor Drawing format support requires Autodesk Apprentice Server to be installed on the same computer. Get it from the official Autodesk Apprentice Server 2027 download page.
1. The Autodesk Inventor Drawing format support requires Autodesk Apprentice Server to be installed on the same computer. Get it from the official Autodesk Apprentice Server 2027 download page.
If you have Microsoft ® Office or LibreOffice installed, you can view and convert additional formats
| Extension | Description | Standard | Pro | Premium |
| DOC, DOCX | Microsoft ® Word | |
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| LWP | Lotus Word Pro 1 | |
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| ODG | OpenDocument Graphics 1 | |
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| ODP | OpenDocument Presentation 1 | |
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| ODS | OpenDocument Spreadsheet | |
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| ODT | OpenDocument Text | |
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| PPT, PPTX | Microsoft ® PowerPoint | |
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| RTF | Rich Text Format | |
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| VSD, VSDX | Visio Drawing 1 | |
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| WPD | WordPerfect 1 | |
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| WPG | WordPerfect Graphics 1 | |
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| XLS, XLSX | Microsoft ® Excel | |
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All the formats listed above can be converted to PDF, and other formats, by using the Batch Conversion function.
Please note that only the most common file extensions are listed above.
For some of the file formats other file extensions may be used.
If you want more information about a specific ViewCompanion edition you can take a look at the product page: ViewCompanion Standard
ViewCompanion Pro
ViewCompanion Premium
