#1 The difference between Standard, Professional and Enterprise versions.
Q: What is the difference between Standard, Professional and Enterprise versions?
A:
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ABViewer features |
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Enterprise |
Professional |
Standard |
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Viewer |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Converter |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Poster Print |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Editor |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Redline |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Batch Converter |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Batch Print |
Yes |
No |
No |
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#2 Floating Licenses.
Q: What is Floating License?
A: Floating Licenses are intended for usage in TCP/IP net. It consists of
program “CS Floating License Server” and of copies of ABViewer
or some other
CadSoftTools products installed on computers in the TCP/IP net.
A multi-user floating license uses a server to issue licenses
to remote applications. The CS Floating License Server can be run under Windows
NT platform (NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003) Server or Workstation.
License allows you to use ABViewer on several machines. Every
time a client uses a floating license he/she connects to the CS Floating License
Server he/she gets ("leases") a license from that server and the number of available
licenses on this server is decreased. When client finishes its work, the license
is returned to the Floating License Server and it is available for other machines.
Note: using Floating Licenses allows to save your money.
For instance: if you have several computers which will not use ABViewer at once
you don’t need to purchase licenses for all your computers. It is just enough to
purchase Floating License for the estimated most number of simultaneously run copies
of ABViewer. Then program “CS Floating License Server” must be installed on any
computer for storing and managing registration data. Then ABViewer can be run everywhere
where it can get access to TCP/IP net. And it is not necessary to reenter registration
data every time when reloading.
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#3 Redline (markup).
Q: What is Redline?
A: Redline is a tool which allows creating, editing and saving markups that
are overlaid on the opened CAD file. Redline can contain texts, lines, arrows, rectangles
and ellipses.
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#4 Managing ABViewer from the command
line.
Q: How can I manage ABViewer from the command line.
A: Usage: ABViewer [command] [switch][switch]file[s...]
Command: open file
Example: open ConusGrinder.dxf
ABViewer.exe ConusGrinder.dxf
Command: convert file(s) to a specified file format
/c xxx
where 'xxx' - extension of output file(s) - dxf,
bmp, jpg, emf, wmf,
tif or gif
Switches:
- Width='value' - width of output file(s)
- Height='value' - height of output file(s)
Example: convert 50states.hpg, test1.dxf and test2.plt
to 50states.bmp, test1.bmp and test2.bmp with height=200
and width=100
Command: print specified file(s)
Example: print the following files: 50states.hpg, test1.dxf
and test2.plt
ABViewer.exe /p 50states.hpg test1.dxf test2.plt
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#5 Registration problem.
Q: ABViewer 5 remains 'trial/evaluation' after entering registration data.
A: It is necessary to enter Name, E-Mail and Key which
are sent to you when registering. You cannot use another "Name" or "E-mail".
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#6 Uninstall problem.
Q: When uninstalling ABViewer message "Could not open Install.log " arise.
File Install.log exists and valid. Uninstalling fails.
A: This problem occurs with ABViewer 4 only:
- Run setup.
- Window "Welcome" will appear. Press button "Next".
- Window "License Agreement" will appear. Press button "Accept".
- Window "Choose Destination Location" will appear. Press button "Browse". Window
"Select Destination Location" will appear. Choose "Destination Folder" as your previous
installation was. For example: if ABViewer was installed to "C:\Program Files\ABViewer
4" choose this folder and press button "OK".Press button "Next".
- Window "Select Program Manager Group" will appear. Press button "Next".
- Window "Start Installation" will appear. Press button "Next".
- Window "Installation Complete" will appear. Press button "Next".
The installation of ABViewer will be completed. To uninstall ABViewer:
- Press button "Start" on "Task bar" pannel.
- Choose "All Programs->ABViewer 4->Uninstall ABViewer".
- "Uninstall ABViewer4" will be run. Window "Select Uninstall Method" will appear.
Select "Automatic" method. Press button "Next".
- Window "Perform Uninstall" will appear. Press button "Finish".
or
- Press button "Start" on "Task bar" pannel.
- Open "Control Panel".
- Open "Add or Remove Programs" panel.
- Select "ABViewer 4" and press button "Remove".
- "Uninstall ABViewer4" will be run. Window "Select Uninstall Method" will appear.
Select "Automatic" method. Press button "Next".
- Window "Perform Uninstall" will appear. Press button "Finish".
"ABViewer 4" should be removed from your system.
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#7 Printing large image
on a small printer
Q: How to print a large image on a small printer
A: If you have an A4-format (210x297 mm) printer and a large image (drawing)
825x594 mm.
- Open image file.
- Press Print Preview button on the toolbar or click [File > Print Preview], after
a short while, the Print Preview dialog should appear.
- In Device configuration section choose a printer
- In Paper size and paper units section choose
- Paper size (for example A4 - 210x297 mm)
- Units value millimeters or inches (for example mm)
- In Paper orientation section choose Landscape or Portrait paper orientation (for
example Portrait)
- Click on the Drawing settings tab
- In Format size section
- choose predefined format A1 (840, 594)
- Enter the following values
- Left 0
- Top 0
- Width 825, press the Enter button on your keyboard, value in the Height edit
box will be set automatically
- In Paper offset section you can choose the size of the printed zone on a paper
sheet. This is made for easy combining the sheets after printing superimposing their
friend on friend. Default value 1 mm on every side of the page is for superimposing,
for example enter the following values
- Left 5
- Top 5
- Right 5
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Bottom 5
- Press Print button.
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#8 Too big size of output EMF file.
Q: When using ABViewer for saving *.dwg file as *.wmf file, the file is significantly
larger than using AutoCAD output as *.wmf.
A: The reason of the difference is in different drawing methods. SHX symbol
is a set of lines. ABViewer uses MoveTo, LineTo API commands when drawing SHX texts
(ABViewer is made on a base of CAD Import VCL tool (click
here for downloading). AutoCAD uses another API command -
Polyline . As a result ABViewer uses API commands in several times more then AutoCAD
when drawing the same SHX symbol. Windows Metafile consists of a set of such API
commands. Therefore ABViewer makes WMF much larger then AutoCAD does.
This problem is in our task list for improvement of our products.
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