And although you probably wouldn't use it to dimension an entire drawing, the program lets you add dimension lines, complete with sizable arrowheads, if desired. The latest version includes a scalable real-world coordinate system as well as the image coordinate system, enabling you to apply coordinates scaled to the drawing. Once an image is loaded into PixEdit, a small Overview window displays the entire image as a key, while the Blowup window shows a scalable view of the area of the image under the cursor. You can zoom and pan in the main view, but it s often easier to use the Overview window for panning. Just click or drag the pointer in the Overview window and the main window pans accordingly.
Performance is quick, even with large or complex images.
Good on-screen image quality is another factor in PixEdit's favor. Depending on how the image was sampled, you can also achieve the same cleanup for the document on disk. Although the program currently doesn't offer it, a function to save the image as viewed to a grayscale document would be handy, saving you the trouble of performing the file conversion if the auto grayscale image will suffice. One of PixEdit's basic functions is document conversion. The program supports import from more than 100 different document formats and output to 45 formats, with several options for each.