Software Companions - Gerber and HPGL Viewers

ViewCompanion Family Comparison Chart

Features

Feature Standard Pro Premium
View, print and convert plotter file formats, including:
HPGL, HPGL/2, HP-RTL, KIPGL, Calcomp and Gerber
yes yes yes
View, print and convert Adobe PDF yes yes yes
View, print and convert Autodesk DWF and DWFx 2D yes yes yes
View, print and convert CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) yes yes yes
Convert your files to many different output formats, including PDF, PDF/A, DXF, DWF, TIF, CALS, PNG, JPG and more yes yes yes
Apply watermark, header and footer during printing yes yes yes
Large format, poster and n-up printing yes yes yes
Batch print and batch convert yes yes yes
Compare and overlay files yes yes yes
Measurement with snap to geometry yes yes yes
Markup feature, also known as commenting or annotating yes yes yes
View, print and convert raster image formats: TIFF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, CALS, PNG, SFF, DCX, PCX, ECW, TGA, EDMICS, WEBP, JPEG2000, JPEG-XL, AVIF, PSD, HEIC and Intergraph yes yes
Page Manager
Remove pages from, and add pages to, a multipage TIFF, PDF and DWF file
yes yes
Split and Merge PDF files yes yes
Advanced PDF page splitter based on either file size, or number of pages, of the output file yes
Add digital signatures to PDF files yes
PDF to CAD
Convert PDF files to DXF, CGM, PLT, DWF, Gerber and SVG
yes
PDF/A Conformance
Conform, or convert, any PDF file to PDF/A standard for archiving
Both batch and single file conformation are included
yes
Advanced raster tools: Image deskew, cleanup, rescale, defoxing and scanning yes
Optical character recognition (OCR)
Create Searchable PDF files from scanned PDF, TIFF and other image formats using OCR. Learn more about the Tesseract OCR engine.
yes
Hot Folder Printing
Monitor a folder and automatically print any files copied to this folder
yes
Single License Price
Perpetual Licenses
Volume discount available from 2+ licenses
$60
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$75
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$95
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This chart lists a only few of the available features, and the major differences between the products.
For a complete list of all features, please take a look at the specific product pages:

ViewCompanion Standard
ViewCompanion Pro
ViewCompanion Premium


File Formats

Each ViewCompanion edition do support different file formats.
Check out the ViewCompanion File Format Support Comparison Chart for more information.