Tools for Viewing, Printing, Markup and Conversion 

ViewCompanion v8.20 now available
Another update with great enhancements!

New functionality includes support for reading Gerber file format, a new multiple pages per sheet
printing mode and several smaller improvements. A new option was introduced to make ViewCompanion
create even smaller TIFF files.

This update will be free for you if you purchased a ViewCompanion license, or renewed
software maintenance, less than 12-months ago.

What's new in 8.20?

• Added support for reading Gerber File Format, including both RS-274X and RS-274D variants.

• Added a new print mode for printing more than one page on a single sheet of paper.
  Printing multiple pages per sheet is also called n-up printing (such as 2-up, 4-up, 6-up and more).
  The picture below illustrates how 4-up printing (2x2 pages per sheet) looks like in the print preview.
  

• We've added a new option for creating smaller TIFF files. In the previous versions, ViewCompanion was only able to write multi-strip TIFF files. The new option (enabled by default) will tell ViewCompanion to create single-strip TIFF files.
  Single-strip files are usually smaller (in terms of file size) than multi-strip files. A multi-strip file may however have some advantages (depends on application):
  • Less memory may be used to process the image because an application can process one strip at a time.
  • Random access to image data is less complicated.

• ViewCompanion will now by default create editable PDF files, and not PDF/A files. You can still create PDF/A compatible files, but you will now have to modify a setting (go to Tools->Options->Conversion->PDF and look for the option labelled Standard).

• We've fixed a bug that caused pen table files to be ignored during batch conversion (ref #609).

• And a few minor improvements and changes.

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