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File conversion software, data capture and plotting
News Release from: Softcover International | Subject: Plot2PDF
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2003
Convertor turns CAD files to PDFs
Plot2PDF converts industry-tandard format CAD drawings into the PDF file format.
Plot2PDF converts CAD drawings saved as industry standard AutoCAD DWG and DXF, HP-GL and HP-GL/2 PLT and CGM files into the PDF file format The recipient of the PDF file can view it using Adobe's enormously popular and free Acrobat viewer
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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A specific benefit of Plot2PDF is that unlike most other PDF file generators it creates and saves PDF as vector graphics, which means that the CAD quality of the drawing is retained even when the viewer zooms in or the drawing is plotted out in detail.
Plot2PDF also converts PLT, DXF, DWG and CGM files to DWF (AutoDesk's Drawing Web Format).
Among the benefits of PDF files are: security (PDFs are unlikely to be corrupted by e-mailing or viruses; design integrity (a PDF drawing cannot be edited, only viewed and printed); and economy (the Acrobat reader is free).
Plot2PDF will convert drawings individually or as a batch and can be used from a command line.
Plot2PDF's batch processing facility will convert hundreds of drawings at once.
Plot2PDF is only available as an Internet download costing GBP 113.98.
A free working demo is also downloadable from the Softcover website.
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