Rasterex, supported in southern Africa by Image Scanning Technology, has recently announced the release of the latest version of RxView. Release 5 uses a COM-based component architecture to support multiple file formats including drawings, raster/picture, hybrid, and documents such as MS Office and Adobe PDF.

Double-byte character set support allows multilingual viewing of all known characters. Support for 3D drawing formats includes: IGES, ACIS, STL, STEP, VRML, SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer and Catia. RxView also supports 2D drawing formats such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, ME 10/30, HPGL etc.

RxView is fully integrated into Windows Explorer enabling file preview of supported formats directly in Explorer. The software includes multiple and split windows, thumbnail and preview support, multipage functionality for documents and TIFF files, view selection, layer control, pen-table manipulation, and watermark printing. Rasterex's new architecture also offers calibration and snap functions for take-off measurements of drawing files. 'Bird's eye view' and magnifying cursors make navigation and selection easy.

Plug-in architecture

RxView incorporates plug-in architecture. Plug-ins from Rasterex and third-party developers add extended funxctionality. Plug-ins are already available to add the following:

* Redlining and collaboration.

* File conversion.

* DDE-to-OLE interpretation interface for backward compatibility.

Rasterex open-development policy gives third-party developers access to full documentation for plug-in development and a plug-in development wizard.

System developers can control RxView using OLE Automation. The extensive range of commands allows full integration of RxView for displaying, plotting/printing and extended functionality in multi-user environments.

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