M-Color is a professional color plotting program for AutoCAD users. It improves the quality and appearance of AutoCAD designs. You can apply graphic effects to whole AutoCAD layers and save color configurations for re-use with other drawings - an essential feature for productive CAD work. Now M-Color runs with AutoCAD 2008-2000 and AutoCAD LT 2008-2002 on Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. Create impressive, colorful plots easily and save color configurations for reuse - an essential feature for productive CAD work. M-Color 9 improves the quality and appearance of AutoCAD designs.

With M-Color you can create professional and colorful plots from AutoCAD drawings quickly and easily. M-Color 9.6 allows you to:

Add solid color fills, gradient fills and bitmap texture fills to entire AutoCAD layers

Use translucent effects with all fill styles

Add hand-drawn effects and one click drop shadows

Manage all plot settings with an easy-to-use dialog interface

Preview plots in full color

Save configurations for future use, which improves efficiency

Rely on calibrated colors in displays and printing

Plot with all Windows printers and plotters

Export plots to PDF, PostScript, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, GIF and many other file formats

Users of AutoCAD 2009 and 2010 can enjoy the new ribbon user interface that makes the commands of M-Color more easily accessible in AutoCAD: M-Color 9.6 Ribbon User Interface

Compatible with Windows 7 By upgrading to M-Color 9.6, you can ensure 100-percent compatibility with Windows 7, Microsoft's latest version of the Windows operating system. M-Color 9.6 has passed Microsoft's official Compatible with Windows 7 tests. Microsoft recommends Compatible with Windows 7 products because they have passed Microsoft designed tests for compatibility and reliability with Windows 7. In addition to Windows 7, you can use M-Color 9.6 on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000.

Deploy M-Color 9.6 to Workstations Automatically You can easily and quickly deploy M-Color 9.6 to all workstations by using the silent installation options. For a simple command-line based silent installation, see the following article: Instructions for silent installation
Administrators who are familiar with Windows Active Directory can deploy M-Color 9.6 to all workstations in a domain by using Windows Group Policy.

A hand-drawn looks adds a touch of personality to your drawings. You can use different effects (curve, deviate, move ends, break and vary width, multiple line segments) to make the drawing look like it was hand-drawn. This is an excellent feature for use in casting initial sketches from your designs, for example.

Adding drop shadows to text or graphics gives depth and flair to your layout. You can create drop shadows simply with the click of a button, then easily adjust the angle, distance, and feathering of the shadow.

Smooth blending of raster images into the background

You can make raster images partially transparent so that the background still shows through. You can use the same effect also for bitmap texture fillings and gradient fills. For example, imagine the possibilities of a gradient fill transitioning gradually towards transparency.

Improved rendering quality and more powerful handling of translucency effects

The new technology of M-Color 9 enables you to export your drawing as a raster image in just a fraction of the time used by previous versions of M-Color. In addition, the quality of the resulting image is enhanced.

With M-Color 9, you can generate small, high-quality PDF files. M-Color 9 also supports PDF 1.5, including inclusion of your CFG layer information in the resulting PDF file.

M-Color 9 supports hyperlinks in PDF files. Also, you can now also save CFG and PAL files into old formats and activate your M-Color license instantly online. Another improvement providing flexibility is the integration with the AutoCAD paper frame in Paper Space.

For automated usage of the software, APIs for bitmap exporting and CFG and PAL manipulation are included in the program.

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