Able Graphic Manager is a program that enables you to easily view, acquire, image process, print, and convert graphic files in normal (file by file), batch (many files at a time), and command line modes.

What is it used for?

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archiving

electronic document transmission

eliminating scans

protecting intellectual property

creating thumbnail images

web publishing

pasting in different documents (Word, Excel etc)

forwarding of simple drawings

presentations

printing.

Input Formats:

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Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)

generated by most CAD programs,

TIFF Bitmap (TIF,TIFF) (including multipage)

JPEG Bitmap (JPG,JPEG,JPE)

JPEG2000 (JP2, J2K and JPC)

PaintBrush (PCX)

Windows Bitmap (BMP,DIB,RLE)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Windows Metafile (WMF)

Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF)

Targa Bitmap (TGA,TARGA,VDA,ICB,VST,PIX)

Portable Pixmap, GreyMap, BitMap (PXM,PPM,PGM,PBM)

Windows Icon (ICO)

Windows Cursor (CUR)

Adobe PDF

PostScript PS, EPS

Wireless bitmap

Output Formats:

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JPG, TIF, PCX, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, TGA, PXM, PPM, PGM, PBM, PDF, PS, DCX.

Able Graphic Manager Main Features:

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Displayed entities (DXF-files)

• Arc
• Attrib
• Blocks (including multiple inserted, scaled and mirrored)
• Circle
• Dimension
• Ellipse
• Elliptic arc
• Hatch (including solid)
• Leader
• Line
• LwPolyline
• Multi-line text
• Point
• Polyline
• Solid
• Spline
• Text (including fit-justified)
• Trace
• Unicode Text (multilingual)
• ViewPort
• 3DFace
• 3DLine

Converting (saving) to

• JPEG Bitmap (JPG)
• TIFF Bitmap (TIF)
• PaintBrush (PCX)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• Windows Bitmap (BMP)
• OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
• Targa Bitmap (TGA)
• Windows Metafile (WMF)
• Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF)
• Portable PixMap (PXM)
• Portable PixMap (PPM)
• Portable GreyMap (PGM)
• Portable Bitmap (PBM)

Displayed properties of entities (DXF-files)

• Color (including Bylayer and Byblock)
• Linetype (Solid, Dashed, Dot, Dashdot, Divide, Bylayer, Byblock)
• Lineweight (from a file or custom)
• Width (for polyline and lwpolyline)
• Text rotation (any angle)
• Text justification (left, right, center, middle, top, bottom)

Viewing

• Two color mode (color and monochrome)
• Any size (6 modes of a sizes setting)
• Extents selection (4 items)
• Any aspect ratio
• Any image resolution when saving to a file
• Zoom (in, out, fit, window)
• Zoom filter (7 items)
• Scroll mode
• Select mode
• Entities Manager - display management of entities.
• The choice of a background color

Printing

• Any system printer (from dialog window)
• Color or monochrome printing.
• Advanced print control (many options)
• Batch printing.
• Printing via command line.
• Multipage documents are supported.
• Choice of scale at printing
• Possibility to insert a caption
• "Print tiled pages" parameter in Print dialog window. Tiling a print job prints portions of each page on separate sheets of paper that you can assemble into one sheet. You would, for example, tile a print job that is larger than your printer paper.

New Features in 2.4:

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"3DLINE" entities have been added.

"VIEWPORT" entities have been added.

The command line parameter (/printer="PrinterName") has been added.

It is used for a choice of the printer. For example: /printer="HP LaserJet 4p"

Watermark drawing has been added. See Tools->Options->Common->WaterMark.

The choice of a background color was added.

See Tools->Options->Common->Background Color.

Batch conversion and print on demo-mode have been added.

Choice of scale at printing has been added.

Change of lineweight has been added.

Opportunity to insert a caption when printing an image has been added.

"Add folders ..." button in "Batch Process" dialog window has been added.

It allows to add a folder(s) with files, including subfolders.

The opportunity to take lineweight from a file has been added.

"Split on a part" parameter in Print dialog window has been added.

It allow to split drawing on a part if drawing has more size than printer paper size.

Display of objects in the frozen layers has been corrected.

Width of a PolyLines and LwPolyLines has been corrected.

Display of a invisible objects has been corrected.