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What's new
ABViewer 6.2 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | New CAD entity is supported - TOLERANCE. |
| • | New CAD entity is supported - TRACE. |
| • | New DWG entity is supported ACAD_TABLE. |
| • | Entity's displaying is improved - ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY. |
| • | Entity's displaying is improved - LEADER. |
| • | Entity's displaying is improved - LWPOLYLINE. |
| • | Entity's displaying is improved - MTEXT. |
| • | Entity's displaying is improved - SPLINE (with zero Start/End-tangents). |
| • | Displaying files of HPGL-2 and PCL formats is improved. |
| • | Displaying files of DWG format versions up to «AC1009» (R12) is improved. |
| • | Support of the oldest DWG file format versions (up to «AC1002») is added. |
| • | Resulting PDF file size is decreased in ten times when converting to PDF file format. |
| • | Speed is increased in three times when converting to DXF file format. |
| • | Displaying files of TIFF format is increased. |
ABViewer 6.1 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | Export to HPGL/2 file format is added. Multi pages and rectangle viewports are supported. |
| • | Converting to DXF supports enhanced Unicode symbols (hieroglyphs etc.). |
| • | DXF loading has been optimized for files with big amount of blocks (layers and styles). In some cases speed is increased up to ten times. |
| • | Enhanced work with mm / inches is added. It is used: |
| • | New Snap abilities: snapping to lines, line centers and intersection points. |
| • | Big rasters shown better with smoothing technology. |
| • | Speed when viewing and scaling raster images has been increased in times. |
| • | Gradient filling for complicated types is implemented. |
| • | Enhanced Unicode symbols for TTF fonts are supported. |
| • | All ANSI-codepages are supported. |
| o | incorrect displaying of HPGL/2 page sizes; |
| o | incorrect viewing of some Backward texts; |
| o | incorrect printing of some gradient fillings; |
| o | incorrect viewing of raster images in block; |
| o | bugs when converting SVG to DXF. |
ABViewer 6 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | New editing ability makes ABViewer full functional editor of CAD files and raster images. |
| • | New panel Properties gives an access to entities' properties and allows changing them on the spot. |
| • | New option Set size as gives flexible access to the drawing's dimensions. It allows making precise measurements on the CAD drawings with several scale factors or to measure raster images. |
| • | New feature Thumbnails makes access to files faster and easer. |
| • | AutoCAD™ DWG 2007 file format is supported. |
| • | Converting to the Adobe Acrobat Document PDF file format is supported. |
| • | Converting to AutoCAD™ DXF file format has been improved significantly. |
| • | AutoCAD™ PROXY (including AEC) entities are supported. |
| • | HPGL/HPGL2 file format - Bezier splines are supported. |
| • | CALS Images (*.cal) are supported. |
| • | Pens for HPGL/2 files are available as a Layers list. |
| • | Main menu contains new item Draw. It contains commands for adding new entities to the drawings. |
| • | Main menu item Edit contains additional sub items which allow copying, pasting, deleting etc. entities on the drawing. |
| • | Main menu item File contains additional sub item Print View Area. It allows to print only visible part of the loaded image. |
| o | Measuring areas - new Tools > Area menu command allows measuring areas on the images. |
| • | Options dialog box contains new tab Units. Its settings influence on the results of Tools > Distance menu item usage. |
| • | Snap to inserts - this option allows snapping to the block's insert point. |
ABViewer 5.2.5 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | HPGL: fixed bugs with gradient filling. |
| • | Scaling factor has been increased in 32 times under WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP. |
| • | Favorites menu has two additional items: |
ABViewer 5.2.0.125 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | Viewing of HPGL files became significantly faster. Requirements for memory lowered. |
| • | The original way of loading, storing and drawing of TTF fonts has applied. |
ABViewer 5.2 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | Added support of BigFonts in AutoCAD™ DWG/DXF files. |
| • | Using default SHX font if necessary is absent. |
| • | A lot of corrections in AutoCAD™ DWG 12, SVG and CGM file formats. |
| • | Added support of AutoCAD™ DWG 9, 10 and 11. |
| • | The Options dialog window (available on Tools > Options menu command) has a new tab Converting settings. |
| • | CAD format files auto rotation when opening (important for HPGL files). |
| • | Edit > Find Point menu commands allows finding 3d point. |
| • | Max possible sizes for exported raster formats are increased. |
ABViewer 5.1 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | ABViewer is available in two versions: |
| • | The new File > Merge menu command allows merging of several CAD format files. |
| • | The new File > Batch Print menu command provides ability to print a batch of chosen files. |
| • | The new Edit > Find Point menu command provides finding of the required point on the drawing. |
| • | The new Edit > Find Text menu command provides finding of the required text string on the drawing. |
| • | The new CAD files > Dimensions Show menu command provides the showing/hiding dimension lines. |
| • | The new CAD files > Texts Show menu command provides the showing/hiding texts. |
| • | Improved option available by CAD files > Show Layers menu command. |
| • | The CAD files > 3D Views menu command is enlarged with the additional views. |
| • | Options menu item moved to the new menu item Tools. |
| • | The new Tools > Redline popup menu command provides a set of tools for creating, editing and saving Redline patterns. |
| • | The new Tools > Distance menu command provides the measuring of distance between two points on the drawing. |
| • | The Options dialog window (available on Tools > Options menu command) has a new tabpage Redline. This tabpage includes Grid options of Redline. |
| • | The CAD Files > Show Lineweight and CAD Files > Hide Lineweight menu commands are brought together to a Show Lineweight menu item. |
| • | The CAD Files > Arcs Split and CAD Files > Real Arcs menu commands are brought together to an Arcs Split menu item. |
ABViewer 5 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | Viewing Viewing TIFF, SVG (restricted functionality), CGM, BW, CEL, CUT, DIB, FAX, GED, ICB, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PAL, PBM, PCD, PDD, PIC, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RGB, RGBA, RLA, RLE, RPF, SGI, TGA, VDA, VST, WIN formats. Working with GIF, DWG, DXF, GL2, HG, HGL, HPG, HP, HP1, HP2, HPGL, HPGL2, PCX, PLO, PLT, PRN, SPL formats was improved. |
| • | The File > Print Preview... CADImage tabpage has new features for defining and scaling line's weight. |
| • | The new File > Batch Print menu command is available. |
| • | The Options > Visualization tab page has new features: |
| o | Double buffering reduces the amount of flicker when the image repaints, but is more memory intensive. |
| o | Border around CAD image for adding the border around the image for the best visualization. |
| • | The menu command Options > Options... has new tab page 'SHX Fonts'. It allows the use of SHX CAD fonts. |
| • | The new File > Batch menu command allows user to convert selected file(s) to *.bmp, *.emf, *.wmf, *.jpg, *.gif, *.tiff and *.dxf formats. |
| • | The menu command Options > Options... has a new tab 'Soft Gold Direct'. It defines an ability of connection to proxy-server for manual or auto update check. The property 'Quality' of 'Visualization' now allows one to set up the number of lines in which circles, circle arcs, ellipses, elliptic arcs and splines would be split up for the best quality. |
| • | The new CAD files menu commands allows drawing top, bottom, left, right, front, back or initial view if AutoCAD™ DWG, DXF or Hewlett-Packard HPGL file loaded. |
| • | The new View > Rotate (Counter clockwise, Clockwise, by Angle) menu command allows users to rotate an image. |
| • | The CAD files > White background menu commands now available as CAD files > Custom background menu. |
| • | The View > Back > Forward menu commands  and  are available now as View > Back > Forward menu commands  and  . |
| • | The new View > Next > Previous files in directory menu command and allows users to view files in current directory. |
| • | New support of animated *.gif files. |
| • | The zoom dropdown list in the toolbar was expanded by new default dimensions (1%, 5% and 25%). |
ABViewer 4.4 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | 'Export file size' dialog box (Save Picture... menu command) was expanded. It allows users to define the actual size, maximum and custom sizes, pixels, millimeters of an image. |
| • | Menu command Options > Options... the 'Visualization' tab page has a new property 'Quality'. It allows users to set up the quality of drawn arcs and splines. |
| • | Property 'Close on' of the 'Common' tab page of the menu command Options > Options... tab page consist of two points: |
| • | The new CAD files > Change Background Color menu command allows user to choose custom background color. |
| • | New options are available when AutoCAD™ DWG, DXF or Hewlett-Packard HPGL files are loaded in 'Structure' mode. On the left side of the tree view, right click, a window appears with two items: 'Find... Ctrl + F' and 'Find Next F3'. On the right side of the tree view, right click, a window appears with 'Copy Ctrl+C'. |
| • | The Print Preview menu command property 'Additional settings' has new option 'Frame offset'. Specifies the offset from original frame if it exists. |
ABViewer 4.3 includes the following new features and enhancements:
| • | 'Export file size' dialog box while saving picture was added. It defines the size of an image. |
| • | The new Favourites > Add From Folder menu command allows user to add all supported files from selected folder to Favorites. |
| • | Support of the layouts viewing. Layout combo box accesses virtual drawing sheets viewing. |
| • | It is now possible to view drawings with a large scale factor. You can view a very small drawing element. |
| • | It is possible now to view *.dxf, *.dwg and *.hpgl formats with better quality. |
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