What's new in pdf2cad 14.2023.7.0
Sep 28, 2023
- PDF2CAD v14 is a significant new release with many new features and improvements. A list of key new features is below. Top among them is a new automatic font name mapping feature, which erases incompatibility between the same font on different systems, new mirroring options for page orientation, and the addition of transparent fills.
- Major redesign of all conversion options and output format settings to be more intuitive.
- New image output formats – JPEG, PNG and TIFF
- Added transparency fill for DWG and DXF formats.
- Support of transparent images (alpha channel) for DWG and DXF formats
- Automatic font name mapping engine.
- Select PDF layers to convert for all output formats
- New options to overwrite the fill/line color of vector objects and the color of text objects.
- New option to recognize pattern fills and replace with a gray fill.
- New option to merge a range of pages into a single DXF or DWF file.
- New DXF and DWG Line weight options
New in pdf2cad 11 Build 11.0.0.0 (Nov 9, 2016)
- Input Options
- pdf2cad v11 offers a new option to specify password protected PDF-files
- v11-input
- Output Options:
- New options to define the page number in the output filename
- New option to use the filename as directory name
- v11-numbering
- Text options:
- Support of Unicode character set
- Enhancements handling unknown character encoding
- Formats:
- Added inch as unit option to DXF/DWG format
- Layers:
- Layer based on type of entities
- Improved nested layering and name verification
- New option to convert each layer to a separate file (DXF only)
- v11-layers
- Scale options:
- New ratio option using mm, inches, feet and meters to define the scaling
- v11-scale
- Image options:
- New option to ignore small images or when cropped convert them to color lines
- New option to move image objects to the background
- New option to show warning message if PDF file contains IMAGE objects
- General:
- Improved font warnings handling
- Bug fixes and enhancements DXF/DWG formats
- Enhanced PDF interpreter
- New 64-bit version of pdf2cad
- Supports latest operating system releases including Windows 10.0 and Mac OS X Mavericks
- pdf2xxx CL (windows) supports Unicode filenames
New in pdf2cad 9.0 Build 9010 (Jul 10, 2012)
- Now, with this new release, pdf2cad 9 also generates the DWG format directly. This means that AutoCAD users no longer need to use a DXF interchange file to import and edit PDF files. DWG, the native AutoCAD format, is smaller in size than DXF making it faster to load, less memory hungry and just as precise.
- Other new features in pdf2cad v9 include:
- Expanded support for separating layers based on native PDF color information and line widths
- Tuned output for AutoCAD, TurboCAD, CADRA and more
- Various improvements and fixes to the PDF interpreter
- 64-bit version (coming Fall 2012)
- Support of Unicode file names
- Support of rotated images in DXF
- Removed rectangle around images in DXF
- Support of -90/90 rotated images in WMF/EMF
- Improved rotated text strings in DXF
- Optimized memory usage in a batch production environment
- Options to fine-tune accuracy on x,y values for each object
- Convert a multi-page PDF file to one DXF file
- Select Zero Line Width for each object
New in pdf2cad 8.0.5.0 (Oct 28, 2010)
- Improved precision through more granular control of x, y values
- New mode to convert a multi-page PDF file to a single DXF file
- Advanced options, Previously available only to developers, have been added to the desktop version including precision controls
- Added the ability to specify Zero Line Width for each object
- Enhanced memory management improves performance in batch production environments
- Added support for layering based on line widths
- Option to separate layers based on definitions in original PDF file
- Extracting additional information available in the PDF file improves quality of conversion
- Enhancements and advancement of the PDF interpreter
- General performance and fidelity improvements
- Certified for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server (32-bit native, 64-bit non-native)