ActiveX Control for Viewing, Printing and Converting Technical Files

Add PDF, CAD, and plot file viewing, printing, and conversion to your Windows application

Build your application with ScViewerX
scViewerX can be used in any development environment that supports ActiveX controls, for example VB.NET, C#, MFC, C++, Delphi and many other.
The SDK includes complete C++, VB.Net and C# sample projects with full source code.

More than 300 methods, properties and events are available for use by your application. You will find methods for comparing drawings, deskewing image files, adding annotations, printing and conversion. The control can merge, split, sign and encrypt PDF files. There are methods for printing multiple files on a single sheet (n-up), poster printing, scaled print and more.
Please take a look at the online documentation for more information.

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Licensing

A developer license is required to use and redistribute scViewerX.

• One developer license grants you the right to develop and distribute one application that integrates scViewerX to an unlimited number of end users without any additional fees. Using scViewerX as part of a WEB server solution count as one application.
• The SDK is available as both 32-bit and 64-bit. Only one developer license is required if your application is available as both 32 and 64 bit.
• There is no royalty or any other redistribution costs.

For details about licensing and pricing, please see:

• SDK License Agreement
• scViewerX Purchase Information

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scViewerX Key Features

• View, print and convert Adobe PDF files.
• View, print and convert PLT (HPGL, HPGL/2, KIPGL and HP-RTL) plotter files.
• View, print and convert Autodesk DWF and DWFx 2D files.
• View, print and convert Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files.
• View, print and convert TIFF, CALS, JPEG, PNG, and BMP image files.
• View, print and convert Gerber plotter files.
• View, print and convert Excellon drill files.
• Annotate your files with text, stamps, area measurements, dimension lines, polygons, images, arrows, barcodes, shapes and revision clouds.
• The Software Companions XML Markup format is fully supported.
• Use the compare feature to display differences between two revisions fast and easy. You may save the result of the comparison to a file.
• Use the DrawToDC method to draw a file to your own device context.
• Split a PDF file into multiple PDF files with one or more pages each.
• Merge two or more PDF files into a single multi-page PDF file.
• Protect a PDF file using password, encryption and optional restrictions.
• Convert existing PDF files into PDF/A standard.
• Create ZUGFeRD-compliant PDF invoices using a base PDF and an accompanying XML file (EN 16931).
• Precise tools for measuring distances and areas with snap to drawing geometry.
• Print multiple document pages on a single sheet of paper, known as n-up printing.
• Use Poster mode to print large drawings across multiple sheets. For example, an A0 drawing can be split across several A4 sheets.
• You can also add a header, footer, or watermark to each printed page.
• Color or Black & White Printing.
• Scaled print or fit to paper.

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Supported Formats

Open for viewing, printing and conversion

• Adobe PDF
• Autodesk DWF and DWFx 2D
• Autodesk Inventor Drawings (IDW)¹
• AVIF image format
• Calcomp plotter format
• CALS image format
• Computer Graphics Metafiles (CGM) ².
• EDMICS C4 tiled image format
• Excellon drill format
• Gerber RS-274D (Standard Gerber files)
• Gerber RS-274X (Extended Gerber files with embedded aperture info)
• Gerber X2
• GIF image format
• HEIC image format
• Intergraph image formats
• JPEG image format
• JPEG 2000 image format
• JPEG XL image format
• PLT (HPGL/2, HP-RTL, KIPGL and HPGL)
• PSD image format (Adobe Photoshop)
• PNG image format
• TIFF image format
• WebP image format
• Windows BMP image format

Notes:

1. Support for Autodesk Inventor IDW file format requires Autodesk Apprentice Server to be installed on the same computer.
   Download Autodesk Apprentice Server here — available free of charge.
   
2. Supports CGM files using both binary and clear text encoding. Supported profiles include ATA, CALS, WebCGM, and CGM*PIP.
   

Additional document formats are supported when Microsoft Office or LibreOffice is installed:

• Word (doc and docx)
• Excel (xls and xlsx)
• Powerpoint (ppt and pptx)

Conversion output formats

• Adobe PDF
• Adobe PDF/A
• Autodesk DWF
• Autodesk DXF
• AVIF
• CALS CCITT Group 4 (Type 1)
• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM Binary)
• Gerber RS-274X
• HEIC
• HPGL/2 Plotter Format
• HP-RTL Plotter Format
• JPEG
• JPEG 2000
• JPEG XL
• Paintbrush PCX
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• TIFF
• WebP
• Windows Bitmap
• Windows Enhanced Metafile
• Windows Metafile

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Supported Operating Systems