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ViewCompanion Standard x64 is a powerful application for viewing and printing plotter files generated by your CAD program or plotter driver. ViewCompanion can read plotter files using HPGL, HPGL/2, HP-RTL (HPGL with raster data) and Calcomp file formats.

In addition to plotter (plt) files ViewCompanion Standard x64 can read CGM and AutoDesk DWF files. One of the major features in ViewCompanion is the ability to convert the viewed file into another format.

Conversion is one of the most important features in ViewCompanion and it can convert to the following formats:
Adobe PDF
Adobe Postscript®
AutoDesk DWF
AutoDesk DXF
CALS Group 4 Raster
Computer Graphics Metafile
Gerber RS-274X
HP-RTL Raster
JPEG Raster
Paintbrush PCX (PCX)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
TIFF Raster
Windows Bitmap (BMP)
Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
Windows Metafile (WMF)

If you need to distribute drawings, e.g. on the Internet, you can convert your drawings to Autodesk Drawing Web Format (DWF), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) or Adobe PDF. All these formats are very popular for distributing drawings.
You can even convert multiple files of different formats to a single multi-page PDF file.
HPGL plotter files can be converted to AutoDesk DXF format, which can be read by almost all CAD application, e.g.: Autodesk AutoCAD and Microstation.
Both batch conversion and printing is included.

Autodesk Drawing Web Format (DWF), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Adobe PDF are very useful and popular formats for distributing drawings on the Internet.
You can also use ViewCompanion to convert HPGL/2, CGM and DWF files to AutoDesk DXF format which you can read in any major CAD application, e.g.: Autodesk AutoCAD.
The ViewCompanion viewer have advanced functions for zooming and panning, so that you can view and check your plot files fast and accurate, before actually plotting them.
Both batch printing and conversion functionality is integrated into the program.