| Version |
What's New |
Released |
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9.22
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Minor update.
Fixed Errors:
| Issue | Description |
| 764 | CGM file from customer failed to open. |
| 772 | Some PLT files caused application to hang if PGLSupport was enabled. |
| 767 | Compressed CGM files failed to open. |
| --- | Doing print preview could sometimes cause a crash if classic toolbar/menu interface was used. |
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22-AUG-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.21
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Minor update.
Fixed Errors:
| Issue | Description |
| 763 | CGM files from customer loaded with wrong extents. |
| 762 | Missing French and Portuguese characters in PLT file from customer. |
| 758 | Extremely slow rendering of some pages in PDF file from customer. |
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10-AUG-2015
Downloads:
No longer available, please download 9.22 or newer instead.
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9.20
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Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
| No | Description |
| 1 | Added support for Clear Text encoded CGM files. |
| 2 | Added support for PGL plotter files, this is a variant of HPGL/2 that is compressed using GZIP. |
| 3 | Calibration now works better while zooming and panning. |
| 4 | Markup measurement text is now placed in center of area by default. |
| 5 | Drawing markup measurement area and dimension line while zooming and panning now works as expected. |
| 6 | Drawing a new dimension line now displays a dimension line using the current settings. |
| 7 | Current measured distance is now displayed while drawing a new dimension line. |
| 8 | Current measured area is now displayed while drawing a new measurement area. |
Fixed Errors:
| Issue | Description |
| 756 | CGM clear text files failed to open. |
| 755 | Splitting a large DWF file to single page DWF files could cause a crash. |
| 754 | Text in CGM file from customer had wrong height. |
| 752 | PGL files failed to open. |
| 751 | Missing French characters in HPGL/2 file from customer. |
| - | Markup line width will no longer affect dimension line text. |
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26-JUL-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.11
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Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
| No | Description |
| 1 | PDF417 barcode format is now available in the add barcode dialog. |
| 2 | Added default line width setting for CGM files (used if no linewidth is set in the file). |
| 3 | Added default line cap style setting for CGM files. |
| 4 | Added setting for enabling/disabling the use of TrueType fonts in CGM files. |
Fixed Errors:
| Issue | Description |
| 753 | Zero length lines in HPGL file from customer was converted to raster using two pixels instead of one. |
| 748 | Printing PDF files on paper sizes larger than A4/Letter could fail (only white page output). |
| 750 | Some CGM text was displayed with wrong height. |
| 744 | Missing line widths in CGM file from customer. |
| 743 | Some CGM files were created with wrong extents (the physical size measured in mm or inch). |
| 740 | Page two in PDF file from customer failed to open. |
| - | The CGM exporter could in some cases set wrong line width for drawing elements. |
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24-JUN-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.10
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Feature update.
All changes included in this update are listed below. You will find more details about some of the new features on the ViewCompanion Premium 9.10 release information page.
News features and improvements:
| No | Description |
| 1 | PDF Bookmarks are now listed in the Outlook Bar (New bookmark section). |
| 2 | New PDF Merge tool added. This tool will merge several PDF files into a single multipage PDF file. All PDF data (markup, text and more) will be retained. |
| 3 | New PDF Partitioning tool added. This tool can be used to split large PDF files into smaller PDF files of one or more pages. The maximum size of each output file (in bytes) is user defined. |
| 4 | MarkupXML: Rubber Stamp center and size parameters can now be defined using the percentage of the actual drawing page size. Stamp rotation can now be defined as well. |
| 5 | MarkupXML: Text center and height parameters can now be defined using the percentage of the actual drawing page size. |
| 6 | New command line parameter for merging several PDF files added, see cmpdf for more information. |
Fixed Errors:
| Issue | Description |
| 737 | PDF files with wrong page size (caused by PDF user unit). |
| 734 | Invisible text in PDF files was incorrectly exported to DXF and other formats. |
| 733 | Calcomp plotter files from customer failed to open. |
| 731 | CALS file from customer failed to open. |
| 727 | A PDF file from customer was not detected as PDF format. |
| 726 | Some files TIFF from customer failed to convert to PDF (CCITTG4 compression error). |
| - | PDF split page tool failed for some PDF files. |
| - | CGM exporter could in some cases create corrupt CGM files. |
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12-MAY-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.06
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Maintenance update.
Error Fixes:
| Issue | Description |
| 719 | Converting HPGL/2 file from customer to PDF using rotation gave offset errors. |
| 718 | Missing drawing information when converting from PDF to DXF. |
| 716 | Missing text when converting PDF file from customer to DXF. |
| 715 | PDF file from customer was not detected as PDF format. |
| 712 | Command line conversion of PDF to TIFF created corrupted files. |
| 711 | Batch conversion of PDF files to TIFF or other formats created corrupted files. |
| 706 | Some text in HPGL file from customer was not displayed correct. |
| 702 | Conversion from PDF, PLT and other formats to SVG now includes raster images. |
| - | Markup text with several lines using RTL (Hebrew/Arabic) caused only one line to be displayed. |
| - | Markup undo sometimes gave strange results. |
| - | Updated PDF reader. |
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28-FEB-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.05
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Maintenance update.
Bug Fixes:
| Bug | Description |
| 701 | PDF file from customer caused a crash. |
| 700 | PDF to CAD: Wrong text spacing in file from customer. |
| 647 | Layer dialog was only available for the first page of a multi-page DWF file. |
| 646 | Rotated view of compared PDF files was not correct. |
| 645 | On some systems ViewCompanion could create corrupt PDF files (very rare bug). |
| - | PDF to CAD: Some files converted with incorrect rotation. |
| - | PDF to CAD: Missing curves when converting file from customer. |
| - | PDF to CAD: Some files had wrong colors when converted. |
| - | Updated PDF reader. |
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19-JAN-2015
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.02
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Maintenance update.
Bug Fixes:
| Bug | Description |
| 643 | PDF to CAD: PDF to DXF: Missing filled arrows when converting PDF file from customer to DXF. |
| 642 | Measurement continued to show invalid results in tooltip after measurement was completed. |
| 641 | Wrong format was displayed as default when opening batch conversion dialog when last used format was not PDF. |
| 640 | PDF to CAD: Conversion of file from customer to DXF gave wrong colors. |
| 639 | PDF to CAD: Invalid extreme coordinates in converted DXF file. |
| 638 | PDF to CAD: Wrong font used for conversion. |
| 637 | PDF to CAD: Missing filled rectangles in file from customer. |
| - | Fixed a problem with polygon and rectangle eraser on some graphics cards when using high quality markup drawing (GDI+). |
| - | A filled area is now displayed while drawing measurement area, polygon and polygon eraser. |
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2-NOV-2014
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.01
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Maintenance update.
News features and improvements:
| No | Description |
| 1 | Compare now works for multi-page PDF files. You can compare page by page in two multipage PDF files. |
| 2 | Conversion to 1-bit PNG file now uses dithering. |
| 3 | Converting multipage PDF to TIFF is now faster and requires less memory. |
Bug Fixes:
| Bug | Description |
| 636 | PDF extract vector information function failed for some files (wrong coordinates and missing information). |
| 635 | Measurement snap was snapping to center of circles far away from current mouse position. |
| 634 | Batch converting files from customer caused ViewCompanion to crash. |
| 633 | In some situations ViewCompanion created distorted GIF files (dependent on dpi and scale combinations). |
| 628 | Missing solid fill for elements in CGM file from customer. |
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1-OCT-2014
Downloads:
32-bit
64-bit
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9.00
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Major release.
You'll find the press release here.
New Features:
| No | Description |
| 1 | You can now extract vector data from a PDF file and save to DXF, DWF, CGM and PLT.
This kind of functionality is also commonly known as PDF to CAD. |
| 2 | Added support for WIA scanner interface. |
| 3 | The updated Shell Extension can now display a full preview inside Windows Explorer. |
| 4 | Added support for new file format: ECW (enhanced compression wavelet). |
| 5 | New Movie Maker tool makes it possible to convert multiple files into a single AVI movie file.
Each page in a converted file becomes one frame in the AVI file (configurable frame length). |
| 6 | Uses a new improved PDF reader which is faster and require less memory. |
| 7 | New Premium Tools ribbon category for additional raster and pdf tools. |
| 8 | New raster tool: Clear rectangular raster area. |
| 9 | New raster tool: Cleanup raster will remove noise for the image. |
| 10 | New raster tool: Flip page vertically. |
| 11 | New raster tool: Burn-in markup to make a markup element permanent part of a raster image. |
| 12 | New PDF Tool: Protect an existing PDF file with a password. |
| 13 | Markup insert symbol dialog now has list of recently used symbols. |
| 14 | Added option to toggle "show on all pages" on/off for markup elements. This makes it easy to display e.g. a stamp or image on all pages. |
| 15 | Added support for adding Datamatrix 2D barcode as a markup element. |
| 16 | Markup text quality has been improved. Text should now look much better in most cases. |
| 17 | New feature for copying a part of the displayed drawing and then add this part to symbol library. |
| 18 | New feature for pasting an image from clipboard and adding it as a symbol to a library. |
| 19 | Markup stamps and symbols are now available from the Ribbon interface. |
| 20 | This update is compatible with Windows 8.1, Windows XP (SP3), Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012, 7 and 8 (all editions). |
Bug Fixes:
| Bug | Description |
| 632 | Pen table line end settings did only apply to the first page in an exported multipage file. |
| 631 | File was not displayed with correct initial rotation (even if use original rotate option was enabled). |
| 629 | DWF file from customer not displayed at all. |
| 627 | Wrong font used for HPGL/2 file from customer. |
| 626 | Symbol library manager: Delete symbol did in some rare cases delete the wrong symbol from a library. |
| 625 | Symbol library manager: Adding symbols smaller than 32x32 pixels caused them to be misaligned. |
| --- | Orthogonal mode didn't work for markup dimension line. |
| --- | HP-RTL exporter didn't support export of multi-page files. |
| --- | Improved the DWF importer with support for many previously unsupported raster image types. |
| --- | Added 32-bit image support to the PLT exporter. |
| --- | Added 32-bit image support to the DWF exporter. |
| --- | Resolution (dpi, or actually pixels per meter) was not written for exported BMP files. |
| --- | Mirror and flip display settings sometimes didn't work for monochrome raster images. |
| --- | Exporting a file with markup text to CGM could cause some of the text to be missing. |
| --- | The file association dialog is moved to a separate application launched in admin mode. |
| --- | The splash screen is now by default off. |
| --- | Several memory leaks fixed (related to dwf loading, conversion to cgm, and raster undo operations). |
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15-SEP-2014
Downloads:
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