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Drawing printing permission from
A cor Cadesign & Build SPRL(Belgium).
Architectural Solutions:tof-cor@tiscalinet.be
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Outline
Open file
Display command
Thumbnail display
Setup of pen
Text font
Measurement of distance between lines, and angle
Line connection search
Text search
Output to printer, plotter
Various file outputs
Comment function
Operation conditions
Licensing fee
Flow to trial, order, and use
Latest upgrade history
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Outline
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PloView is viewer for viewing drawing of HPGL/Vector/image file, and there
are the following functions.
(1) High-speed displaying of vector drawing, and many commands about displaying
(2) Color and width change of line, whole drawing black and white / color
change, background color change, pen ON/OFF
(3) Mode(Merge command of overwrite / mixed color / difference writing
/ data)
change of drawing
(4) Rotation, mirror, grid displaying
(5) Thumbnail displaying
(6) Vector font / TrueType font change of character font
(7) Measurement function of coordinates, length, line width, and angle
(8) Character search
(9) Connected line search, the total line length measurement
(10) Comment (straight line, free form curve, cloud mark, rectangle, ellipse,
character) insertion edit
(11) Multi-page correspondence
(12) Black and white/color copy to clipboard
(13) Support to many file formats
Input:PDF,HPGL,HP-GL/2,HP RTL,DXF,GERBER,NC-Drill,IGES,EMF,
TIFF,JPEG,Bitmap,PCX,FPX,GIF,PNG
Output:PDF,HPGL,HP-GL/2,HP RTL,EMF,TIFF,DXF,JPEG,Bitmap,PCX,FPX,GIF,PNG,
IGES,Printer,Plotter,WMF,PS,EPS,SVG,XPS,PCL
(WMF,EMF,PS,EPS,SVG,XPS,HP-GL/2,HP RTL,PCL):(
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Open file
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PloView opens many kinds of HPGL, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, PDF, DXF, GERBER, NC-Drill, IGES, EMF, TIFF, JPEG, Bitmap, PCX, FPX, and PNG of files.
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Display command
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The following abundant displaying operations are possible.
1. Mouse Operation
| Mouse operation |
Function |
| Mouse left button click |
Whole display |
| Mouse right button click |
Display pop up menu of often used command |
| Mouse left button drug |
Setup of zoom display area |
| Mouse right button drug |
Zoom display |
| Mouse middle button drug |
Dynamic shift display |
| Mouse middle button double click |
Whole display |
| Mouse wheel other-side rotation |
Dynamic expansion display |
| Mouse wheel this-side rotation |
Dynamic reduction display |
2. Keyboard operation
| Keyboard oparation |
Function |
| Shift key |
Drug ON |
| Ctrl key |
Drug OFF |
| Right arrow -> key |
Shift-to-the-right display |
| Left arrow <- key |
Shift-to-the-left display |
| Up arrow key |
Top shift display |
| Down arrow key |
Bottom shift display |
| Home key |
Whole display |
| PageUp key |
Zoom-in display |
| PageDown key |
Zoom down display |
3.Menu operation
Whole displaying
Zoom window
Zoom up
Zoom down
Re-displaying
Zoom copy area displaying
Zoom windows 1-5
Shift displaying
Drug mode
Rotation displaying
Mirror displaying
Grid displaying
Multi-page change |
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Thumbnail display
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Change of "page", "thumbnail", and "thumbnail + page" can be performed.
Thumbnail displays all files under folder having selected drawing file.
Thumbnail and page display screen
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Setup of pen |
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Usually, although displayed with color of pen and line width in drawing data, it is changeable with setup of pen.
Setup of background color:
Screen background color:
It becomes the color of pen No. specified by background pen No.
Background color at the time of outputs, such as printer, and TIFF, PDF:
It is usually white. If the check mark "This background color
is used with output" is attached, it will become the color of pen
No. specified by background pen No.
Setup of foreground color:
Priority 1:
If it is set as monochrome display mode, it will become black and white.
Priority 2:
"Ignore PC (pen color) command" check mark is removed,
it will become the color of PC command of drawing data. Priority 3 will
be applied if there is no PC command in drawing data.
Priority 3:
It becomes the color set up for every pen.
Setup of line width:
Priority 1:
It is displayed with the line width of No. 16 pen that it sets up
for "Set to mode: all line width is 16th pen."
Priority 2:
"Ignore PW (pen width) command" check mark is removed,
it will become the line width of PW command of drawing data. Priority 3
will be applied if there is no PW command in drawing data.
Priority 3:
It becomes the pen width set up for every pen.
Example:
Set to black and white mode OFF and background color as black
Set to black and white mode ON and background color as black
Set to black and white mode ON and background color as white
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Text font |
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Windows font and Vector font can be selected.
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Measurement of distance between lines, and angle |
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The following figure shows result after specifying P1 point and P2 point
of Drawing data.
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Line connection search |
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Line connected with specified line of vector drawing data can be searched.
Search results are displayed on screen as the specified color. Since these
search results are memorized temporarily, it will disappear, if it performs
clearing search results or ending this program, or it searches connection
of the next line, or it opens another file etc. If it is while having memorized,
displaying, printer output, PDF output, DXF output, and clipboard copy
can be performed for search results. The total line segment length of connected
line who searched is displayed.
Search condition setup
Line is recognized to bring mouse cursor to line.
If mouse button is clicked here, continuous line is searched, and color
is changed and displayed as shown next figure.
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Text search |
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Letter string of LB (label) command of HPGL data is searched, and it expands
and displays on middle of the screen.
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Output to printer, plotter |
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It can output to Windows printer or HPGL plotter.
It can preview before output.
If file is selected as output destination with plotter output, the following HPGL files can be obtained.
- HPGL file which changed scale, angle, and mirror ON/OFF
- HPGL file of expansion area
- HPGL file which made comment and HPGL file one
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Various file outputs |
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It can output to PDF, DXF, TIFF, JPEG, Bitmap, PCX, FPX, GIF, PNG, IGES,
WMF, PS, EPS, SVG, XPS, PCL and EMF file.
Overprint is supported with PDF output.
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Comment function |
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The comment is figure and text put in when the drawing is checked. The
comment consists of the straight line, the free curve, the cloud mark,
the rectangle, the long circle, and the text. The comment can be inputted
and edited.
(1) Display ON/OFF of comment tool
(2) Display ON/OFF of comment
(3) Selection for comment edit
(4) Straight line input : Attributes are form(Straight line, Starting-point
arrow, Terminal-point arrow, Starting and terminal point
arrow, Cloud mark)
line color, line width, arrow size, cloud mark pitch, and
layer top /
bottom.
(5) Free form curve input : It is the same as (4).
(6) Rectangle input : attributes are line color, line width, coating existence,
coating color, and layer top / bottom.
(7) Long circle input : attributes are line color, line width, coating
existence, coating color, and layer top / bottom.
(8) Text input : attributes are character color, line width, character width,
height, interval, angle, and layer top / bottom.
(9) Input grid ON/OFF
(10) Comment attribute set
(11) Redo/Undo
(12) Deletion
(13) Attribute change
(14) Copy, cut, and pasting to clipboard.
(15) Perform the transfer of comment by mouse operation.
(16) Saving, reading
(17) Output to printer, plotter, PDF, DXF, TIFF, JPEG, and Bitmap in piles
with HPGL.
(18) Copy to clipboard in piles with HPGL.
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Operation conditions
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Personal computer of Intel compatible CPU
mounting
- Memory: 512 MB or more (Vista, 7, and 8 are 1 GB or more)
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Empty capacity of hard disk drive: 100 MB or more
- Screen resolution: 1024
dots x 768 dots Above
- OS:
32Bit of Windows ME, NT4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8
64Bit of Windows Vista, 7, and 8
- It is necessary to
install some printer drivers.
Printer driver of high resolution is required to read PDF file.
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Licensing fee
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Licensing fee of PloView is 80US$ per license.
In addition, please pay PayPal remittance charge.
PayPal remittance charge is 7.2% of licensing fee.
Therefore, the amount of remittance is [ 85.76US$ x order number]. |
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Flow to trial, order, and use |
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1. Trial
Please download product from this HP. Since product is compressed into
ZIP file, please extract it with suitable thawing software. A file called
Readme.txt should be in extracted inside, and since product summary, the
installation method, the uninstallation method, license agreement, licensing
fee, protection release, reference, and upgrade history are described,
please read well. And since a file called Setup.exe is in extracted inside,
it is installable if it double-clicks by Explorer. Opening to the public
on HP serves both as trial and object for formal. All the function usage
can be carried out free for 30 days from installation for trial. If 30
day will pass and password will not be entered, protection starts and product
stops working. Please order the formal version, when you use more.
2. Order of formal version
It can pay with PayPal or credit card with the next button.
PayPal charge is displayed as "Postage and packaging" with the
next button.
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Please refer to Readme.txt file to carry out bank transfer.
Please send the next "order sheet" to e-mail address described at the last of this HP.
Order sheet
1. Soft name: PloView (English)
2. Soft version no.: 9.0
3. Order number: 1
4. Company name:
5. Offer person name:
6. Offer person E-mail ID:
7. Charge payment day:
8. Charge payment amount:
3.Sending of password
The copyright holder will email the password when payment of the licensing
fee has been confirmed.
4.Release of lock
Execute PloView and display 'Version Information' dialog box with the menu
'Help'-'Version Information' and input the password.
5.OS exchange or exchange of installation personal computer
Even if given password replaces exchange of OS, or installation personal
computer, it can release lock.
However, the number which can install PloView in personal computer simultaneously
is less than ordered number.
6.Revision up (rise of the 2nd place of decimal point of version number)
Revision up is free of charge.
Software of new revision is downloaded and reinstalled from the Internet
HP.
Previous password is effective. |
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Latest upgrade history
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Ver.8.01 June 02, 2008
(1) It enabled it to read PDF and EMF file.
(2) Function which carries out data conversion to WMF, EMF, PS, SVG, XPS,
HPGL, and PCL from PDF file was added.
(3) Restriction of Windows font was lost at the time of PDF file output.
(4) When PDF and EMF file were read, mode which displays font currently
used in the file was prepared.
(5) It supported to CO (comment) command.
(6) Progress bar was displayed at the time of thumbnail creation.
(7) It was made for improvement in resolution and frame size data to be
included with EMF output.
Ver.8.02 June 29, 2008
(1) Although color operator of PDF output was only RGB in the past, you
could specify CMYK.
(2) Overprint was supported with PDF output.
Ver.8.03 July 21, 2008
(1) Font can be selected in comment text input and Chinese and Korean can
be inputted.
(2) Dragging of Windows Font is made at the time of text input of comment.
(3) Indicate the character of Windows Font by mirror on screen.
(4) Merge and Xor displaying of character of Windows Font can be performed.
(5) PDF and EMF containing character of Chinese and Korean can be inputted.
(6) One comment character of 255 or more characters can be inputted.
(7) Character (mirror character) of minus character width can be displayed
by Windows Font.
Ver.8.04 September 1, 2008
(1) Improvement in the speed of displaying of image.
(2) When the black-and-white image is set by reduction, display by gray scale.
(3) It enabled it to read GIF and JPEG2000 of image file.
Ver.8.05 January 10, 2009
(1) When having set specific printer as "usually used printer"
and it tried to have opened PDF, there was case where error of "open
error!code=1002" was displayed and it did not open. It was made to
open normally when printer driver which does not become error was installed
in others.
Ver.8.06 May 6, 2009
(1) WMF, PS, EPS, SVG, XPS, and PCL output were supported.
(2) When it converted into PS and EPS by "File"-"Convert
PDF file", it repaired that scaling was carried out to fixed form
paper size, and margin was made in the four corners.
However, character is outside support except alphabetic character font.
Ver.8.07 Jan 9, 2010
(1) Registration / release function of file extension of relation was appended.
(2) Letter reading of EMF file was repaired.
Ver.8.07 Jan 20, 2010
(3) It repaired that there were conditions that cooperation of "Comment-Display
comment Tool" and "Comment-Dsiolay comment" menu was strange.
Ver.8.07 Feb 03, 2010
(4) Operation on Windows7 was guaranteed.
(5) It supported to UL (user line type) command.
Ver.8.07 Mar 06, 2010
(6) Some bugs were repaired.
Ver.8.07 Apr 06, 2010
(7) Some bugs were repaired.
Ver.8.07 April 24, 2010
(8) EMF file output and click board copy were repaired.
Ver.8.07 May 27, 2010
(9) The maximum number of pen number translation table was increased from 5 to 20.
(10) The maximum number of line connection check was increased from 20 to 200.
Ver.8.07 May 29, 2010
(11) The maximum number of pen table was increased from 5 to 20.
(12) The "Change all pen width to pen0" button in SetPen dialog was added.
Ver.8.07 June 10, 2010
(13) When color number of image was 256 or more at PDF output of the drawing
containing an image, in the past, it was reducing in 256 colors.
It was made to output without reducing the color number this time.
(14) The icon for WMF, PS, EPS, SVG, XPS, and PCL output was prepared for
main window lower left.
Ver.8.07 June 19, 2010
(15) When PDF and an EMF file read, it had not supported to clipping of
complicated shape. It supported now.
Ver.8.07 July 11, 2010
(16) Displaying speed was raised at Windows Vista and 7.
Ver.8.07 July 15, 2010
(17) The automatic paper select function (A4 / A3/A2 / A1/A0, length/width)
was added with PDF, TIFF, Bitmap, Jpeg, WMF, PS, EPS, SVG and XPS, and
a PCL output.
Ver.8.07 July 23, 2010
(18) The accuracy of position at the time of PDF and an EMF input was improved.
Ver.8.07 July 28, 2010
(19) The reading speed of PDF and EMF file containing many characters was improved.
Ver.8.07 July 30, 2010
(20) PDF input-and-output problem of image data was repaired.
Ver.8.07 August 17, 2010
(21) PDF input-and-output problem of text data was repaired.
Ver.8.07 August 20, 2010
(22) Drawing size at the time of a PDF input was improved.
(23) Drawing size was displayed when it displayed.
Ver.8.08 August 27, 2010
(1) Optional feature of "Display procedure" (Momentary display/Sequentially
display) was appended in SetPen dialog. Displaying speed changes with "Display
procedure" and combination of personal computer hardware, OS kind,
DrawMode, and drawing data. In Vista and 7, if it is not made Momentary
display, displaying will become quite slow.
Ver.8.08 November 1,2010
(2) The composition of an installer was changed.
Ver.8.08 December 16,2010
(3) Output of the file in which the figure is not included had occur error.
This was repaired.
(4) It becomes error to read the file which carried out the PDF output
by Adobe Reader when the decimal point character of the real number is
set as "," with the control panel of Windows. It was repaired.
Ver.8.08 March 11, 2011
(5) It supported to DL (download character) command.
Ver.8.08 July 18, 2011
(6) Displaying improvement of color image.
(7) Magnification of drawing size in which color image output enables.
(8) Mouse wheel setting addition.
Ver.8.08 December 9, 2011
(9) Linkfile was opened by OpenFile Dialog.
Ver.8.09 February 06, 2012
(1) When having set up Correct Rate of Text Size by SetText other than
100%, it corrected that character position of continuous LB (label) command
had shifted.
(2) It corrected so that the following character when CS (standard character
set) command is set might be displayed correctly.
CS3 '[' ==> '0'
CS4 '\' ==> 'i'
(3) It enabled it to set PS (plot size) command initial value to option
setting tab of OpenFile dialog.
In the case of HPGL file in which PS command and IP (scaling point P1,
P2 input) command are not included, SR (relative character size) command
etc. which affect scaling point can be controlled now.
Ver.8.09 March 26, 2012
(4) Improvement of IGES output
(5) Improvement of big arc displaying
Ver.8.09 May 15, 2012
(6) With IGES output, when input and output file name were 60 or more characters,
IGES data corrected fault which becomes abnormal.
Ver.8.09 May 28, 2012
(7) In HPGL input, 1-byte katakana of the character set 43 of SD command
and AD command was supported.
(8) When C/R and L/F were in 1 byte of katakana character by LB command,
it repaired having displayed abnormal character.
(9) Function which transmits evaluation report by E-Mail was deleted.
Ver.9.00 January 10, 2013
(1) It supported to reading of two-dimensional DXF file (version is AC1025
and equivalent to 2000/2000i/2002 in AutoCAD version).
(2) It supported to reading of GERBER file.
(3) It supported to reading of NC-drill.
(4) It supported to reading of two-dimensional IGES file.
(5) In addition to AutoCAD version GX-5 conventional correspondence, DXF
file output could newly be made to perform 2002 correspondences.
(6) In addition to conventional Bitmap, TIFF, and Jpeg, image output supported
to GIF, PNG, PCX, and FPX.
(7) Coordinates accuracy of internal processing was raised from 0.025 mm
to 0.001 mm or less.
Coordinates when it requests, and the minimum unit of length were 0.001
mm from 0.01 mm.
(8) It was made to set up input file relations with set input file menu.
It enabled it to set up file extension for every file type.
Extension set up here is displayed on "kind of file" of OpenFile
dialog.
In the past, since file type and file extension's relation were unknown,
this is improvable although there was case where file which PloView is
not supporting was selected and PloView hung-up.
(9) Designation of extension which can be searched with set thumbnail was
stopped, and all the extensions registered by set input file were used
as extension searched with thumbnail.
(10) Pen number was displayed by dimension measurement between request
lines.
(11) Since various output parameters were common, output scale set up with
other outputs was used, and it may have outputted with unexpected scale.
Then, automatic scale and output scale memorized setup for every output.
(12) Width of string to display was adjusted so that it might become width
specified by data.
(13) It supported to Windows8.
(14) Licensing fee was changed by change of exchange rate.
Ver.9.00 March 13, 2013
(15) With PDF output, smearing away of mesh was carried out to coating
whose shade level is 100%. It was light-color-ized according to shade level.
Ver.9.00 April 17, 2013
(16) It supported to transparent color of HP RTL (image).
Ver.9.01 May 2, 2013
(1) The next function was added with HPGL plotter output.
- Add button into which plotter parameter file is edited.
- It enabled it to select specification of output HPGL data
from the next
three kinds by plotter parameter file.
HPGL : Simple functional vector
HPGL/2 : Highly functional vector
HPGL/2+HP RTL: Highly functional vector + image
(2) Five kinds of Text size candidates were prepared by comment attribution
setup.
If Text size used well beforehand is registered into candidate, Text height,
width, and space can be collectively set up only by selecting from candidate.
(3) Defect was repaired.
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PloView Ver.9.0 Software download
Note :
The downloaded file is compressed into the ZIP type.
Please extraction with extraction software.
This HP is always put up only the latest version.
Acquisition of an old version becomes impossible.
Please copy the downloaded file to a data medium for
re-installation.
PloView Ver.9.0 Catalog(PDF) download
Note :
This file is a file of PDF form.
PDF viewers, such as Acrobat Reader of Adobe, are
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Contact us
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Please inquire it with the electronic mail, in
the case that it is following.
1. Please send it if there is the HPGL file
where it is not able to output with
PloView, PloComp, PloCon and
PloViewAuto. We analyze, improve it.
2. Function up request regarding
PloView, PloComp, PloCon
3. Use method regarding PloView, PloComp, PloCon
4. Inquiry regarding this HP
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Ver.9.01