ViewCompanion Standard 4.15

ViewCompanion Standard is a powerful application for viewing and printing HPGL, HPGL/2 and HP-RTL files generated by your CAD program or plotter driver. Since the HP-RTL format is supported your HPGL/2 files with embedded images will be shown correctly.
One of the most important features in ViewCompanion is the ability to convert the viewed file into another format.
Autodesk Drawing Web Format (DWF), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Adobe PDF are very useful and popular formats for distributing drawings on the Internet.
You can also use ViewCompanion to convert any HPGL file to AutoDesk DXF format which you can read in any major CAD application, eg: Autodesk AutoCAD.
The ViewCompanion HPGL viewer have advanced functions for zooming and panning, so that you can view your plot files fast and accurate, before actually plotting them.
The program also supports Microsofts IntelliMouse for zooming and panning operations.
Batch printing and conversion functionality is integrated into the program.
The Pro version also allows you to add markups to the loaded file. Among the supported markup elements you will find rectangles, ellipses, polygons, text, arrows and images. Markup elements will be stored in a separate file. The original file is not changed.
Main features:
- View and print HPGL and HPGL/2 files.
- Microsoft IntelliMouse support for zooming and panning.
- Supports Metric and Imperial coordinates.
- Multiple Document Interface (MDI) makes it easy to view several files at once.
- Drag and Drop supported. Both single and multiple files.
- Full screen mode.
- Rotate loaded files in steps of 90 degrees.
- Flip or mirror loaded files.
- Load rotated with user defined rotation.
- Copy selected region to clipboard, and paste into another Windows application.
- Add footer/header containing date, scale, time and filename when printing.
- Color or Black & White Printing.
- Scaled print or fit to paper.
- Poster mode for printing big format drawings on eg. Multiple A4 pages.
- Print Preview.
- Print to all Windows supported plotter and printer devices.
- Overlay up to 10 files and print as one drawing.
- Convert to other formats (PDF, DXF, Postscript etc).
- Rasterize to TIFF, PNG, JPEG etc.
- Create password protected PDF and DWF files.
- Batch Printing.
- Batch Conversion.
- Define user Pen Table full control of colors, styles and widths. Also supported for batch printing and conversion.
- Individual Pen visibility control.
- Entity information query.
- Distance measurement.
- Polygonal area measurement.
- Text search.
- Easy to use installation and uninstallation software.
- Customizable GUI.
- DDE Interface for easy integration with other programs.
- Supports multipage HPGL/2 files.
- Supports embedded (RTL) raster.
- Send a file directly to an other person using E-Mail from within the program.
- Store commonly used files in projects.
Version restrictions:
- 30 days free trial