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Viewing/Conversion software - Product Comparisons

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Software:

Trix DrawingCenter CAD drawing viewer software
$196.00

TracTrix raster vector conversion software
$695.00

Trix RasterServer batch CAD to raster and PDF converter
$2,450.00

Viewing

 

 

 

Open DWG, DXF, HPGL, DWF, PDF

Yes

Yes

Viewer built in for
assisting set up.

Open raster files (scans)[1]

Yes

Yes

Mark up (annotate)

Yes

Yes

Measure lengths/perimeters/areas

Yes

Yes

Compare multiple views/documents

Yes

Yes

Precise and local zoom

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

Printing

 

 

 

Set scale or fit to page

Yes

Yes

Outputs raster or PDF files only - no printing functionality.

Print all or selected details

Yes

Yes

Pen widths based on color values

Yes

Yes

Date/time/file/scale /text stamp overlay

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

Conversion

 

 

 

Raster to vector

no

Output DWG, DXF, HPGL, IGES, EPS, AI vectors

no 

DWG/DXF/HPGL to raster

 

Full control of output size and resolution

Batch conversion with full control of output size, resolution, line weights

DWG/DXF/HPGL to PDF

Entire image to fixed size PDF

Raster to raster

Yes

Yes

Batch conversion with full control of output size and resolution

Raster to PDF[2]

Yes

Yes

Office files to raster/PDF

no

no

Text Recognition

no

Yes

n/a

Directly drive and input from scanner

Yes

Yes

n/a

 

 

 

 

Editing

 

 

 

Raster entry and editing

no

Yes

Converter only, no editing functions.

Vector entry and editing[3]

no

Yes

Markup editing

Yes

Yes

Multiple undo

Yes

Yes

Raster and vector snap

no

Yes

 

 

 

 

Color handling

 

 

 

View and print color

Yes

Yes

n/a

Color separation

n/a

Yes

n/a

Raster colors convert to vector layers

no

Yes

n/a

Interface

Individual user application

Individual user application

Runs as Windows service. Users see only input and output folders

 

 

 

 

Licensing options

 

 

 

Single user

one local license

one local license

Single license serves unlimited local users via polled folders or command line instructions.
Network

floating multiple user

floating multiple user

       

Software:

Trix DrawingCenter™

TracTrix™

Trix RasterServer™

Notes:
[1] Supported raster file formats are listed below.
[2] Subject to compatibility between raster formats – some formats cannot be converted into certain other formats.
[3] Vector editing for entities created in TracTrix – original DWG/DXF/HPGL files opened in TracTrix cannot be altered.

 


Vector formats

Open and convert from AutoCAD DWG, DWF and DXF (Releases R12 to 2007), Acrobat PDF, HPGL and HPGL2 plot files.

Raster formats

 

Raster Description

Usual
Extension

C4 JEDMICS

C4

CALS Type 1

CAL

CALS Type 2

C2

CALS Type 3

NIF

DjVu

DJV

Dr. Halo

CUT

Enhanced Compressed Wavelet

ECW

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript – embedded TIFF File)

EPS

Exif JPEG

JPG

Exif JPEG 4:1:1

JPG

Exif TIFF – no compression

TIF

Exif TIFF – no compression, YCC

TIF

FlashPix

FPX

FlashPix, JPEG

FPX

FlashPix – no compression

FPX

GEM Image

IMG

GeoTIFF

TIF

GIF (Compuserve)

GIF

FAX, raw, CCITT Group 3 1D

FAX

FAX, CCITT Group 3 1D, no eol

FAX

FAX, CCITT Group 3 2D

FAX

FAX, CCITT Group 4 1D

FAX

IBM Presentation PTOCA (various)

PTK

Interchange File (various)

IFF

Intergraph CCITT G4

CIT

Intergraph RLE

ITG

IOCA – CCITT

ICA

IOCA – IBM

ICA

IOCA – uncompressed,

ICA

JPEG – various

JPG

Kodak Cineon

CIN

Kodak DC

KDC

Kodak PDC

DCR

Kodak PDS

DCS

Kodak PhotoCD

PCD

Laser Data

LSD

Mac Paint

MAC

MacPict

PCT

Microsoft Fax

AWD

Microsoft Paint

MSP

Microsoft Windows Clipboard

CLP

Mr. Sid

SID

OS/2 Bitmap – Version 1

BMP

OS/2 Bitmap – Version 2

BMP

Paint Shop Pro

PSP

Paint Shop Pro – RLE

PSP

PDF (image-only)

PDF

Photoshop (Adobe)

PSP

Portable Greymap ASCII File

PGM

Portable Greymap Binary File

PGM

Portable Pixelmap – ASCII

PPM

Portable Pixelmap – Binary

PPM

Portable Network Graphics

PNG

Raw BitField

RAW

Raw Packbits

RAW

Raw RLE4

RAW

Raw RLE8

RAW

Raw uncompressed data

RAW

RTF Format

RTF

Scitex continuous tone

SCT

Silicon Graphics Image

SGI

Structured Fax File Format

SFF

Sun Raster

RAS

Targa

TGA

Targe RLE

TGA

Tiff - CCITT Group 3 1D

TIF

Tiff – CCITT Group 3 2D

TIF

Tiff – CCITT Group 4

TIF

Tiff – CCITT Huffman

TIF

Tiff -FX CCITT (various)

TFX

Tiff -FX JBIG (various)

TFX

Tiff – JPEG (various)

TIF

Tiff – LZW compression

TIF

Tiff – no compression CMYK

TIF

Tiff – no compression YCC

TIF

Tiff – no compression

TIF

Tiff – Packbits CMYK

TIF

Tiff – Packbits YCC

TIF

Tiff – Packbits

TIF

Tiff – Uncompressed