ViewCompanion Premium

Viewcompanion includes both batch conversion and batch printing.
You can also monitor a folder for incoming files and automatically print or convert them using predefined settings.
This makes it easy to automate repetitive document-processing tasks and streamline high-volume workflows.

Use ViewCompanion to measure distances, dimensions, and areas directly in your documents and drawings. Measurement points can snap to drawing geometry for improved accuracy.

The measurement tools can also be calibrated, ensuring correct results even when a drawing is not scaled at 1:1. Measurement results can be exported to an Excel workbook (XLSX) or a CSV file for further analysis in any spreadsheet application.

Use ViewCompanion to compare different revisions of a document or drawing and clearly visualize the differences.
All supported file formats can be compared, including PDF and DWG. Multipage files can be compared page by page.
Learn more about file comparison in ViewCompanion.

Annotate documents and technical drawings with text, highlights, dimension lines, area measurements, stamps, arrows, barcodes, symbols, images, freehand markup, and more.
All annotations are stored in a separate markup file, so the original document remains unchanged. Markups can also be included when printing or converting the document.
Learn more about annotations in ViewCompanion.

ViewCompanion Premium includes a wide range of tools for working with PDF files. You can merge and split documents, rotate pages, add watermarks, create searchable PDFs with OCR, convert files to PDF/A, compare revisions, extract pages, optimize files, and more.
These tools make it easier to prepare, organize, review, and archive PDF documents without using a separate PDF application.
Learn more about the PDF tools available in ViewCompanion Premium.

Getting Started

New to ViewCompanion?
Visit the Getting Started page for a quick introduction to the interface and basic features.
Learn how to open files, navigate documents, and perform common tasks such as viewing, annotating, comparing, and converting them.

• View, annotate, convert, and print a wide range of file formats.
• Convert to a large number of output formats, please see the complete list of formats below.
• Use the PDF to CAD tool to convert your PDF files into editable DXF, DWF, PLT, SVG and CGM files.
• Watch folder conversion: Monitor a folder and automatically convert all files created in or copied to the folder.
• Watch folder printing: Monitor a folder and automatically print all files created in or copied to the folder.
• Compare two files and clearly visualize their differences.
• Advanced printing and plotting features for technical drawings and documents.
• Includes both batch conversion and batch printing.
• Annotate your files with text, symbols, stamps, barcodes, images, measurements, and more.
• Precise measurement with snap to drawing geometry.
• Use the measurement and annotation functionality to perform digital takeoffs.
• Easily add watermarks to your PDFs — whether you're working with a single file or processing multiple files in batches.
• Conform, or convert, any PDF file into PDF/A standard for archiving. Supports both batch processing and single-file conversion.
• Merge multiple PDF files into a single multi-page PDF file.
• Split a multipage PDF into separate files based on either a maximum number of pages or a maximum file size for each output file.
• Tile large-format PDF pages into smaller pages or separate files.
• Create searchable PDF files from scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
• Includes advanced raster processing tools to deskew, cleanup, remove foxing and more.
• Scan documents directly into a new file or append scanned pages to the currently active document.
• Overlay up to 10 different files and print them as a single drawing, or convert all files into one combined output file.
• Pen table support provides full control of colors, line styles, and line widths for printing and conversion.
• Color, grayscale, or black-and-white viewing, printing, and conversion.
• Shell Extension for easy access to functions inside the Explorer Window and a full preview of the selected file.
• Powerful command line interface for automated conversion and printing.

• Adobe PDF
• AutoCAD DWG and DXF 2D⁽¹⁾
• Autodesk DWF and DWFx 2D
• Autodesk Inventor Drawings (IDW)⁽²⁾
• AVIF Image Format
• BMP (Windows Bitmap format)
• Calcomp Plotter Format
• CALS type 1 and 2
• CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) ⁽²⁾
• DCX (Multipage PCX)
• ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
• EDMICS C4 (Group 4 Tiled)
• EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile)
• EMZ (Compressed Windows Enhanced Metafile)
• Excellon Drill Format
• Gerber RS-274D (Standard)
• Gerber RS-274X (Extended)
• Gerber X2 / X3
• GIF
• HEIC
• Intergraph Raster File Formats
• JPEG
• JPEG2000
• JPEG XL
• PCX (PC Paintbrush format)
• PLT, HPGL, HPGL/2, HP-RTL and KIPGL files
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
• SFF (Structured Fax Format)
• TGA (Truevision Targa)
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) ⁽⁴⁾
• WebP (Google Image Format for the WEB)
• WMF (Windows Metafile)

Additional document formats are supported when Microsoft Office or LibreOffice is installed:

All input file formats can be converted into the following formats:

If the loaded file is a vector file, you may convert it into the following additional formats:

• Adobe Postscript®
• Autodesk DXF
• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM Binary)
• Gerber RS-274X
• Scalable Vector Graphics

The following file formats are classified as vector: PDF, CGM, DWF, DWFx, DWG, DXF, HPGL/2, PLT, IDW, Excellon, Gerber and Calcomp.

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