Upgrade Notes: What’s New in the pdf2cad v12

pdf2cad v12 is a significant new release with new features and improvements all around. A list of key new features is below. Top among them is a new automatic font name mapping feature, which erases incompatibility between the same font on different systems, new mirroring options for page orientation, and the addition of transparent fills.

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General

New Horizontal and Vertical Flip options when converting PDF drawing.

Added support for Multi-page PDF file to one drawing (Merge, Horizontal or Vertical aligned) in DWG output

Upgraded support password-protected PDF file output to DWG

Format Specific Upgrades

– Added transparency fill support DXF/DWG format

– Scaling factor and support of Circle/Ellipse added to HPGL output.

Text Handling

– New automatic font name mapping engine

– Upgraded support of condensed text functionality in DXF/DWG

Layering

– PDF layers selection option to convert

– Convert objects of each PDF layer to a separate file

Object Handling

– More advanced options for handling image objects

Option to convert connected LINE objects to one POLYOBJECT

System Upgrades & Requirements

– 64-bit only; 32-bit version retired with v11

– Supports latest operating system releases including Windows 10.0 and Mac OS X Catalina

– PDF 2.0 support