ViewCompanion Pro is a very powerful application for viewing, printing and converting HPGL, HPGL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, CALS and other formats. Since most AutoCAD plot files (PLT) is using the HPGL/2 or the HP-RTL format, ViewCompanion can be used to view these files.
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).
No extra applications or drivers are needed for conversion to the different formats. More details about the conversion formats can be found here.
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.
With ViewCompanion Pro you can add markups to the loaded file. Supported markup elements include rectangles, lines, dimension lines, area measurements, ellipses, polygons, text, arrows and images.
Hyper links can be added to markup elements, and a hyper link can either open another drawing in ViewCompanion, or open an Internet location using the default browser.
All markup elements are stored in a separate file. The original file will be left unchanged.
The markup elements can optionally be included when the viewed file is printed or converted.
The markup elements can be exported to a DXF file.

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