ViewCompanion Premium
Multiformat viewer and converter
ViewCompanion Premium is the most powerful member of the ViewCompanion family. ViewCompanion Premium can view, print and convert Adobe PDF, PDF/A, Autodesk DWF, PLT, CGM, TIFF, CALS, EDMICS and several other file formats.
ViewCompanion Premium supports conversion to a wide range of output formats, including PDF. Please see the complete list of supported output formats below.
Your CGM, DWF, Gerber, IDW, and PLT files can be converted into Autodesk DXF format, which can be read by all popular CAD applications, for example Autodesk AutoCAD™.
The built-in PDF-to-CAD tools allow you to convert PDF files into editable DXF, Gerber, CGM, and SVG formats.
Includes both batch conversion and batch printing. The software can be configured to monitor a user-defined folder, and all files copied to that folder will automatically be printed or converted using your predefined settings.
You can merge multiple files of different formats to a single multi-page PDF, DWF or TIFF file.
ViewCompanion can split a multipage PDF, TIFF or DWF file into multiple files.
You may split a PDF file either based on a maximum number of pages per file or based on the maximum file size for each output file.
With ViewCompanion you can measure dimension lengths and areas. All measurements can be done using snap to drawing geometry to give the highest accuracy. Calibration of the measurement tools is available to make sure you get correct results even if your drawings are not scaled 1:1. The measurement results may be exported to either a Excel Workbook (XLSX) or to a CSV file which can be opened by any spreadsheet application.
Use ViewCompanion to compare files of different revisions and visualize the differences. You can compare all supported file formats, including PDF. Two multipage files can be compared page by page.
Annotate documents and drawings using text, highlights, dimension lines, area measurements, stamps, arrows, barcodes, symbols, images, freehand markup, and more.
ViewCompanion supports symbol libraries for quick insertion of frequently used markup symbols. Custom symbol libraries can easily be created from image files.
All markup elements are stored in a separate file, leaving the original document unchanged. Markups can optionally be included when the document is printed or converted.
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.
Key Features
- 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 by adding 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 multi-page PDF file into individual files.
- 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.
- Text search and extract.
- 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.
Supported File Formats
ViewCompanion Premium can open the following file formats for viewing and conversion:
- Adobe PDF
- Autodesk DWF 2D
- Autodesk DWFx 2D
- Autodesk Inventor Drawings (IDW)1
- 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) 3
- WebP (Google Image Format for the WEB)
- WMF (Windows Metafile)
1. Support for Autodesk Inventor IDW file format requires Autodesk Apprentice Server to be installed on the same computer.
Download Autodesk Apprentice Server 2027 here — available free of charge.
2. Supports CGM files using both binary and clear text encoding. Supported profiles include ATA, CALS, WebCGM, and CGM*PIP.
3. Supported TIFF compression methods: Uncompressed, Packbits, LZW, Deflate, JPEG, CCITT G3 and G4.
- Microsoft® Excel
- Microsoft® PowerPoint
- Microsoft® Word
- OpenOffice Document Format
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- Lotus Word Pro 1
- Microsoft Visio 1
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) 1
- WordPerfect 1
1. This file format is only supported if LibreOffice is installed.
2. Read more about Libreoffice and ViewCompanion.
ViewCompanion Premium can convert to the following file formats:
- Adobe PDF
- Adobe PDF/A
- Autodesk DWF
- AVI 1
- AVIF Image Format
- CALS CCITT Group 4 Raster 2
- GIF Image Format
- HEIC Image Format
- HPGL-2
- HP-RTL Raster
- JPEG Image Format
- JPEG2000 Image Format
- JPEG XL Image Format
- Paintbrush PCX
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- TIFF Raster 3
- WebP Image Format
- Windows Bitmap
- Windows Enhanced Metafile
- Windows Metafile
- 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, HPGL/2, PLT, IDW, Excellon, Gerber and Calcomp.
1. AVI files can be created by using the Movie Maker tool. This tool will let you add multiple files, of all the different formats ViewCompanion supports, to a movie. Each page from all the added files will be converted to a single frame in the movie.
2. MIL-PRF-28002B Type 1.
3. Supported compression methods for TIFF includes: Uncompressed, CCITT-G3, CCITT-G4, LZW, Deflate, JPEG and Packbits.
4. No additional applications or drivers are needed for conversion.
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit
- Windows 8, 32 and 64 bit
- Windows 8.1, 32 and 64 bit
- Windows 10, 32 and 64 bit
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2025
- Runs in virtualised and remote desktop environments including Remote Desktop Services, Azure Virtual Desktop, TeamViewer, and Citrix.
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If you want to continue to use the product after this period, you're required purchase a license.
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