CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

2 February 2007

Product News

Rasterex Releases RxView R8.1 and RxHighlight R8.1

Rasterex Software announced the release of version R8.1 of their family of viewing products for Windows.

RxView allows users to view & print more than 250 different file formats (2D & 3D CAD, plot-files, PDF files, Office documents, raster images etc.), without having the design software installed on the machine.

RxHighlight adds advanced functions like mark-up, file conversion and text search & extraction, for collaboration between team members.

Version R8.1 is mainly a service release, providing our customers under maintenance contract with over 60 new features and bug fixes" says Per Christian Lindstad, CEO at Rasterex Software. Frequent service releases improves the daily performance for the hundreds of thousand customers around the world using RxView and RxHighlight for their viewing, printing and collaboration needs.

Customers under SSA contract have already received the new version. New users can download and try the software for free on Rasterex download page.

Some of the new features, enhancements and bug fixes in R8.1:

•  Conversion from AutoCAD to PDF creates searchable PDF files

•  New DDE call which returns page size in metric or imperial

•  Added 6 additional hatch styles to markup entities

•  Removed limitations to number of files open simultaneously

•  Removed limitations to number of markup elements

•  Measurement available in overlay/compare window

•  Markups from original drawings are visible in overlay/compare window

•  Bug fixes in AutoCAD, Anvil1000, CalComp, MicroStation, HPGL, DWF, GIF, PDF, PNG, TIFF, TG4 and Word filters

•  and many more..

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