Software Companions News 2004

• Compare two different plotter files and see the difference visually (Pro only).
• Up to 10 other plotter files can be added as overlay on viewed file. The user controls the scaling and placement of the overlay files.
• Measurement with entity snapping is now available.
• New measure function to measure distance between several points.
• New text search function.
• New text extract function (Pro only).
• Close button on the reference and detail window added.
• Transparent raster in HPGL files are now supported.
• A collate option is now available in the batch print dialog.
• The image is now centred on the screen.
• Watermark position and rotation are now user configurable.
• Header and footer can now contain 3 different lines.
• The user can set footer and header distance from page edge.
• Tiff with LZW compression is now supported.
• JPEG quality is now configurable.
• The GUI look can be changed, two options available in the Customize dialog.
• New command line parameter /ro# rotating after load.
• Markup layers can now be protected with password so that other users cannot change and/or view the layer contents (Pro only).
• Markup text rotation can now be set in the markup text dialog (Pro only).
• Markup entities can now have hyperlinks, either to other files or an URL location (Pro only).
• Markup text can now be opaque as well as transparent (Pro only).
• Markup text size can now be set using mm/inch (Pro only).

Download and install ViewCompanion Pro or Standard now.

Gerbview updated.
See here for more information about this update.

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