ViewCompanion Premium full changelog

News:
The default mouse wheel operation for multi-page PDF files is now zooming.
You can change this behavior using the buttons on the status bar at the bottom of the window.
A new option has been added to set the initial zoom factor for multi-page PDF files.
Available options include: Zoom 100%, Zoom Width, and Zoom All.
PDF conversion and security options can now be accessed directly from the Save as PDF dialog.
Solved issues:
Fixed an issue where only the first page of a multi-page DWFx file was displayed correctly; subsequent pages were previously blank.

News:
Modified the compare function by adding options for toggling visibility of new, old and equal information.
Added support for opening AVIF files for viewing and conversion.
Added AVIF as new output format.
Added a new SVG importer for annotation symbols.
Solved issues:
1644 A PDF file from customer was not identified as a PDF file.

News:
Added a new Batch Scale PDF files dialog.
Use this tool to create scaled copies of PDF files while prevailing all content (layers, text, geometry etc).
Added a new Batch Rotate PDF files dialog. Use this tool to create copies of PDF files where is page is rotated 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
You may also use this tool to force all pages to landscape or portrait mode in the output PDF file.
Added a new Batch OCR dialog for converting PDF, TIFF, CALS and other formats to a searchable PDF.
This tool requires Tesseract OCR engine to be installed.
Added color mode selection to the Print dialog (available options include color, gray or monochrome).
Added JPEG-XL compression setting to control quality and lossless options for exported files.
Added /ocr command line parameter. Use this parameter to create a searchable PDF file from the input file.
Added /cpdfa command line parameter. Use this parameter to create a PDF/A compliant file from the input PDF file.
Changes:
Added rotate option to the Batch Conform PDF dialog.
You can now rotate the pages in the converted PDF while it is being converted to PDF/A standard.
Solved issues:
Some images in a DWF file from a customer were displayed with incorrect colors.
CGM files from a customer were displayed with huge extents.
Excellon drill files were displayed incorrectly.
Excellon drill files with .txt extension were loaded as text files.

News:
Added an option to disable the internal File Explorer (Settings->Advanced->User Interface). The default setting is off.
Added an option for selecting the PDF/A conformance level to use when PDF/A is enabled for output PDF files. Available settings:
PDF/A-2b
PDF/A-3b
PDF/A-2u
PDF/A-3u
PDF/A-4
PDF/A-4e
A setting for PDF/A conformance level was added to conversion ini file (PDFALEVEL).
Solved issues:
No longer opens XPS files as a ZIP archive. These files will now be tried loaded using the DWFX reader.
Excellon G84 command (Canned Circle) was not supported.
Markups were still being loaded in an added compare DWF/DWFX file even if the "Load Markup Created by Design Review" option was disabled.
A DWF file was loaded with invalid dimension.
Missing line style in DWF file from customer.
Some polygons that were the outside paper area was not clipped.
An image in a DWF file had wrong colors and was lost after conversion to PDF.
Missing line styles in DWF file from customer.

Added an option to enable creation of progressive JPEG files.
Added "Convert to PDF Raster" option to the Shell Extension context menu.
Added JPEGPROGRESSIVE setting to conversion configuration file to enable creation of progressive JPEG files.

ViewCompanion has been rebuilt using latest available development tools for full compatibility with the latest Windows versions.
Windows XP are no longer a supported platform.
Internal file explorer is now again available.
Added new sketch mode display option. This option can be useful if you're measuring geometry with wide lines.
Added a new option for setting a new serial number. This option can be found under the Settings tab.
Markup measure is now a separate panel with distance, area and counter options.
Added a new option to control if page rotation for DWF files should be applied (enabled by default).
Several other minor changes and improvements.