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EPSViewer Pro 4.0.8

Two new formats –

XPS and OpenXPS open like any other document — paths, text, gradients, images and clipping, with the embedded fonts read directly. Everything else follows: separations, ink coverage, preflight, the object tree, RIP export

Object inspector –

Select anything on the page and see what it is: type, position, size in points and millimetres, declared ink, and the transform applied to it

For text, the actual typeface, its size, and whether it is embedded

Shift-click to select several; the inspector reports what they have in common

Continuous scrolling –

Pages now run on from one to the next, with the sidebar following as you scroll

One page at a time remains available in Settings ▸ General for examining a single page closely

Fixed –

Objects drawn under a transform were listed in the wrong place on the page, and some could not be selected at all. Embedded images were missing from the object list entirely

Text selections covered a word or two rather than the whole block

Comparison now follows the page you are viewing, zooms with the toolbar, and says why when a file cannot be read

Hiding objects works in PDF files, not only PostScript, and is instant regardless of document size

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VectorView for iOS – Update 1.6.0

Files can now reach VectorView from anywhere, and leave it as a PDF.

  • Opening files from other apps –

Open With in the Files app now offers VectorView
Share a file from Mail, Safari or anywhere else and send it straight here
AirDrop a drawing from a Mac or another device and it opens on arrival

  • Create PDF –

New in the + menu: build a PDF from your photos, CorelDRAW drawings or PostScript files
Pick several files and they become the pages of one document, in the order you choose them
CorelDRAW pages are written as vectors, so they stay sharp at any size and print properly

  • Printing –

Print any drawing straight from the preview
CorelDRAW files print as vectors rather than as an enlarged picture
Page size, orientation and range come from the usual print panel

  • New Folder –

Create a folder from the + menu, without going into the toolbar

  • Ember Clay –

A new Pro theme: warm orange on a dark, clay-toned page

  • Large PostScript files –

EPS files up to several hundred megabytes now open, depending on your device — previously anything over 50 MB was refused
All EPS files open faster
When a file genuinely can’t be opened, the app now says why: too large, unreadable, or using features it can’t interpret. Those explanations appear in your own language.

  • Also fixed –

PDF thumbnails were drawn upside down
Themes now reach the header bars, the Settings and upgrade sheets, and the New Folder dialog
Changing the theme no longer blanks the screen on iPad

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EPSViewer Pro 4.0.7

RIP export

Rasterise a document the way a platesetter will image it — separated 1-bit plates, 8-bit greyscale, or composite CMYK, at up to 3600 dpi
Output size is estimated before you commit, so a 2400 dpi composite is a choice rather than a surprise

Halftone magnifier

Click anywhere on the page to see the actual dots at plate resolution
View all plates together or one at a time, with ink coverage for each
Needs no export first — the file on screen is enough

Imposition

Saddle-stitch booklets and n-up sheets, with the page pairing worked out for you
Add other files to the booklet — the open document stays first
A diagram shows how each sheet is laid out, where the fold falls, and which pages sit where

Export presets

Outlined PDF — every character becomes a path, so nothing can be substituted anywhere downstream
Press-ready, Proof, and PDF/X-1a with an embedded output intent

Printer’s marks

Crop marks, registration targets and an optional slug line
Previewed on the canvas before exporting, including the larger sheet they need

Review notes

Approved, Rejected, Revise and Seen stamps, and arrows you can re-point by dragging either end

Also

One tool active at a time — choosing a tool puts the last one away
Select is the default tool: click any object on the page to identify it
Tools and Prepress menus, and a toolbar grouped to match

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CDRViewer 2.1.1

New tools –

Eyedropper. Hover to read any colour in the drawing, click to lock it. Where the file states a colour you get the exact CMYK or spot ink the designer set; elsewhere you get the colour as it will image. The readout says which, and copies all three notations at once.

Cropper. Copy an area. Drag a rectangle anywhere on the canvas and it goes to the clipboard as an image — drawn fresh at full resolution, so a crop taken while zoomed out is still sharp.

Both live in the new Tools menu, alongside Measure and Drawing Scale.

Object inspector –

A new Object tab in the inspector. Select anything and see what the file says about it — size and position, fill with the exact CMYK or spot ink the designer set, outline colour and width, dashes, transparency. For text: the font, size, colour and content.

Click to select. Click any object on the page to select it — no tool needed. It highlights on the canvas and its row opens in the object list, and vice versa.

Printing –

Print (⌘P), from the File menu or the toolbar. Vector output, so it stays sharp at any size, with page ranges and scaling from the standard macOS dialog. What you see is what prints — hidden objects stay hidden.

Export –

DXF export. Send a drawing to AutoCAD or any CAD application as editable geometry: paths, layers, colours and live text. Placed images are left out and gradients flattened — DXF has no equivalent for either — and the export tells you what it left behind.

EPS export. PostScript for print workflows and sign cutting: paths, CMYK, outlined text, embedded images and gradients. Placed photographs travel with the file rather than being referenced.

Export a single page by right-clicking its thumbnail.

Exporting no longer blocks the app. The panel closes as soon as it knows what to write, and the drawing’s own window shows progress. Large exports leave the app usable throughout.

Settings –

Bleed amount, low-resolution warning threshold, and an option to scroll to the object you select in the object list.

Also –

Page thumbnails scale with the sidebar instead of staying one size
Icons on the zoom menu items
More space between the sidebar and inspector tabs
Page bounds and bleed outlines now sit under the rulers rather than over them
Text objects show their size and position in the inspector
Hiding an object no longer resets the zoom

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VectorView for iOS – Update 1.5.9

Welcome to VectorView 1.5.9!

CorelDRAW files now render with new engine — the same one CDRViewer uses on the Mac — and look the same on both. Zoom stays sharp at any level, multi-page documents open properly, Cyrillic and CJK text appears, and drawings with large embedded photographs no longer lose parts of the page. You can also choose the canvas colour behind drawings that carry no background of their own.

File info now reports the CorelDRAW version, page and object counts, and which fonts a drawing needs — flagging any your device does not have.

Plus: themes reach every corner of the app, importing a folder no longer locks it up, and PDF thumbnails are the right way up

VectorView Page. Get it from Appstore for free: Appstore link.

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EPSViewer Pro 4.0.6

“EPSViewer Pro – Postscript and PDF Converter” is updated to version 4.0.6

-Review notes-

Add notes, sticky notes, callouts and freehand marks straight onto the artwork
Notes resize themselves to fit what you type, or drag a corner to size them yourself
Everything is saved automatically and is still there when you reopen the file — your original is never modified
Export with Include notes: in a PDF they stay live, so whoever receives it can read and reply in Preview or Acrobat

-Compare revisions-

Open two versions of a job and see what changed
Side by side, overlay, or changes only
Also compares fonts, spot colours, page count and declared size — the changes a pixel comparison cannot show

-See what a file is made of-

A new Objects tab in the inspector lists every mark on the page — fills, strokes, text, images and gradients — in the order they were drawn, with size and ink
Select an object to outline it on the page, or click the page to find it in the list
Hide any object, or isolate one to see what sits underneath. The page is genuinely redrawn without it, not covered over
Export with hidden objects left out — a PDF export stays vector

-Copy artwork out-

Select any objects and copy them straight to the clipboard, cropped to what you picked
Pastes into Illustrator, Affinity or InDesign as editable vector, and into Mail or Keynote as an image
No more opening a design application just to pull one logo out of an EPS

-Better colour and measurement-

The eyedropper now also reports what an object declares, alongside what it renders — so a black that was built in RGB is obvious
Measuring snaps to object corners and edges. Hold Option for a free position

-New check: stray geometry-

Flags artwork extending far beyond the page — a stray point or a clip region left at its default size. It never shows on screen, but it distorts the bounding box every layout application reads

-Tidier-

Tools and Prepress menus, instead of one long View menu
Eyedropper and Open buttons in the toolbar

-Also-

Pages and Notes are now tabs in one sidebar
Tools act on the front tab only

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CDRViewer 2.1.0

-Structure-

Object list. A new sidebar showing the drawing’s layers, groups and objects. Search it, filter by type, and click any row to outline that object on the canvas.

Hide and isolate. Turn off layers or individual shapes to see what’s underneath. Export follows what you see, with the option to put hidden objects back.

-Print-

Separations preview. View the drawing one plate at a time — process inks plus a plate for each spot colour. A preview from the drawing’s own colours, not a RIP.

Print Check. A second inspector tab: what the drawing is built in, with warnings for RGB in a CMYK job, heavy ink coverage, and rich blacks.

Image resolution. Every placed picture with its effective resolution, flagged below 300 dpi. Extract them all to a folder in one step.

Page bounds and bleed. The printed page marked on the canvas, so artwork parked outside it is obvious.

-Measuring-

Rulers and a measurement tool, in millimetres, centimetres, inches or points.

Drawing scale. Tell CDRViewer that 50 mm on the page is 5 m in life, and measurements read in real-world sizes. Remembered per file.

-New Files-

CorelDRAW templates (.cdrt) now open..

-Faster-

Opening a file is quicker, especially a large one. A drawing was being read from disk several times over; now it’s read once.

-Also-

Font list now shows the sizes each typeface is used at

Page size reports the page CorelDRAW states, alongside the drawing’s actual extent

Open File button in the toolbar; the sidebar can be dragged wider.

We are always here to hear your requests, contact us in any case you need support for CDRViewer!

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EPSViewer Pro 4.0.5

“EPSViewer Pro – Postscript and PDF Converter” is updated to version 4.0.5

Color separations

  • See the plates your job will actually print on. Every process and spot separation, rendered the way a RIP separates them, with per-plate ink coverage
  • Spot colors appear as their own plates under their own names — a Pantone, an HKS or a varnish is shown as the extra plate it really is, not folded into CMYK
  • Toggle plates on and off, isolate any single plate, and view in colour or greyscale
  • Spot inks are shown in their measured colour rather than a generic swatch

Colour eyedropper

  • Sample any point for CMYK, RGB and hex, with a colour swatch
  • Values are read from a true CMYK rendering, so the ink percentages are the ones that will print — not a guess reverse-engineered from screen pixels
  • Point, 3 × 3 or 5 × 5 averaging
  • Click to lock a reading and ⌘C to copy the values

Font and image audit

  • Fonts are checked against what the file actually carries, not what a conversion produced. A file naming a font it doesn’t embed is now caught, where previously the conversion’s own substitute made it look correct
  • Embedded, subset, standard or missing status for every font
  • Effective image resolution — a 300 dpi photo placed at 200% is a 150 dpi photo, and that’s the number reported

More checks

  • PDF/X advisory checks — output intent, printing condition, ICC profile, colour spaces and transparency
  • Rich black detection — flags artwork whose blacks separate onto all four plates, which usually means it was built in RGB
  • Spot colors declared but not measured are now cross-checked and reported

Now works for PDF and Illustrator files too

  • Ink coverage, total ink coverage, artwork checks and document information now apply to PDF and AI, not just PostScript
  • PDF artwork is checked against its trim box, and artwork extending past trim is correctly reported as bleed rather than as clipping
  • Every check is made per page, so pages of differing size are each judged on their own terms

Faster

Tools now act on the front tab only, instead of every open document

Documents open substantially faster. Analysis now runs for the page you’re looking at instead of every page at once — on a long document that’s a fraction of the previous work

Artwork checking can be switched off entirely in Settings for very heavy files

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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VectorView for iOS – Update 1.5.8

Welcome to VectorView 1.5.8!

VectorView now has a real iPad interface: a sidebar with your folders, Recents, Favourites, iCloud and Trash, a folder trail in the toolbar, and previews that use the whole screen.

Files also open differently everywhere — in place of the browser, with a Back button and the usual edge-swipe, and a left-right swipe to move through the rest of the list.

And it’s faster: importing no longer locks the screen, opening a folder no longer stutters, and previews are remembered between visits.

*** WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL ***

Unlike generic file viewers, VectorView includes professional rendering engines specifically for designers and print professionals. We’ve spent months optimizing the rendering pipeline to deliver the best quality on iOS.

*** FREE TO TRY ***

Start with 3 file imports per day. Upgrade to Pro anytime for unlimited access and export features.

*** PERFECT TIMING ***

Whether you’re reviewing client files at a coffee shop, checking print files before a deadline, or accessing your creative work while traveling, VectorView is ready when you are.

Thank you for choosing VectorView!

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CDRViewer 2.0.9

  • Large drawings no longer hang the app.
  • Drawings with guide lines.
  • CorelDRAW X3 files Now supported properly.
  • Colors:
  • Colours no longer come out grey.
  • New Document Colors panel, listing every colour the drawing has. Kept separate from Spot Colors, which lists only inks that will separate onto their own plate.
  • Text Improvements:
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean text now displays.
  • Cyrillic paragraphs that contained spaces or punctuation were being dropped entirely.
  • Paragraph alignment. Centred text was drawn left-aligned.
  • Multi-line paragraphs in non-Latin scripts kept only their first line.
  • Outlines and shapes:
  • Dashed lines now show their dash pattern and their end caps — round, square or flat.
  • Clips inside Clips now resolved.
  • Other:
  • Added Zoom shortcuts. Zoom shortcuts are in the View menu: ⌘+ in, ⌘− out, ⌘0 actual size, ⌘9 fit to window.
  • Text import options are offered again when the setting asks for them.
  • Settings opens in its own window instead of taking over the drawing’s tab.
  • Font list in the inspector, marking any typeface not installed on this Mac — so substituted text is identifiable as a missing font rather than a rendering fault.

We are always here to hear your requests, contact us in any case you need support for CDRViewer!

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