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Getting PaintShop Pro 6 Compatible with Windows 10

XP, Pleez The About screen for PaintShop Pro v6 I've been using PaintShop Pro as my go-to raster editing software since version 4. Version 6 produced a mature program that does everything I need of it; I did get version 8, but it lost an important feature: the ability to resize an image without losing quality. So, v6 it is. Here's the thing: PaintShop Pro v6 came out in 2000. Yep, it's 22 years old. But being that old has for me three big advantages that no recent version can boast (it's now owned by Corel or whatever that company... Read more →

What's happening with Vectorworks 2023

Shipping in September Perhaps the biggest -- and saddest -- surprise from yesterday's interview with Vectorworks CEO Dr Biplab Sarkar is the news that the company is switching to selling only subscriptions to customers, as of January 2023, in English-speaking countries. If you have a permanent license, it'll keep working as long as your computer's operating systems supports it, either on Windows or MacOS. When I suggested that permanent licenses are an advantageous marketing tactic, Mr Sarkar agreed that Vectorworks also used to promote that, but that it is easier on their back office system to deal with just one... Read more →

We talk to BIM6x about their Revit RVT translator for ARCHICAD

From BIM6x Although some BIM vendors implemented a Revit translator this year, such as Vectorworks, they have all kept quite quiet about it. So when BIM6x issued a press release about their Revit translator plug-in for ARCHICAD, WorldCAD Access had to interview them. We spoke with Chris Clark, BIM6x ARCHICAD Solutions Director and Link Ellis, BIM6x ARCHICAD Technical Director. (The plug-in is free, works only with ARCHICAD 21, and comes in a version each for Windows and MacOS. RVT is Revit's file format for its models, while RFA (Revit Families) is its format for sharing objects between projects, such as... Read more →

PDF Converter Elite

Software review by Ralph Grabowski PDF became the de facto exchange medium for drawings and documents because it is accurate (Adobe made sure of that when they first developed Acrobat), and because it is read-only: recipients can't modify the document. Even in the CAD industry PDF has taken over from other formats meant to be lightweight (don't contain all the baggage a drawing file normally carries) and meant to be read-only (can't be edited), such as Autodesk's DWF. But people want what they can't have, and so third-party developers figured out how to reverse engineer the contents of PDF files.... Read more →