ViewCompanion Pro is a very powerful application for viewing, printing and converting HPGL, HPGL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, CALS and other formats. Since most AutoCAD plot files (PLT) is using the HPGL/2 or the HP-RTL format, ViewCompanion can be used to view these files.
Conversion is one of the most important features in ViewCompanion and it can convert to the following formats: Adobe PDF,Adobe Postscript,AutoDesk DWF,AutoDesk DXF,CALS Group 4 Raster,Computer Graphics Metafile,Gerber RS-274X,HP-RTL Raster,JPEG Raster,Paintbrush PCx (PCX),Portable Network Graphics (PNG),Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG),TIFF Raster,Windows Bitmap (BMP),Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF),Windows Metafile (WMF).
No extra applications or drivers are needed for conversion to the different formats. More Details about the conversion formats can be found here.
If you need to distribute drawings, e.g. on the Internet, you can convert your drawings to Autodesk Drawing Web Format (DWF), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) or Adobe PDF. All these formats are very popular for distributing drawings.
You can even convert multiple files of different formats to a single multi-page PDF file.
Key Features:
* View, markup, convert and print files of different formats.
* Conversion to other standard formats, see below for a list of supported formats.
* Extensive set of command line parameters for conversion and printing.
* Batch Printing and conversion.
* Open files directly from a ZIP archive.
* Drag and Drop supported. Both single and multiple files.
* Rotate loaded files in steps of 90 degrees.
* Load rotated with user-defined rotation.
* Add footer/header containing date, scale, time and filename when printing.
* Add watermark using text or a raster image.
* Color or Black & White Printing.
* Scaled print or fit to paper.
* Poster mode for printing big format drawings on multiple sheets, e.g. print an A0 drawing in full size using multiple A4 sheets.
