About 2 years ago, my boss moved across state and we started using Volo View
for markups and to allow him to print small sized drawings. It was a great
solution for our situation and everything has run smoothly (actually much
more so than I expected!). Anyway, we recently purchased a license of
Composer for each of us.
While I only use it to view his markups, he uses much more of the features.
After working with it for a project, he said he was disappointed in it
compared to Volo View. First off, the lack of a print preview is a big
issue. Often he needs to print just an area of a drawing and preview is
essential to him. Also, we really liked the system of dwf and rml files.
It was easy to determine that rml's were markups from him and dwf's from me.
Having only the dwf requires saving as different names if we'd like to keep
the "unmarked" dwf (which we always do). In addition, composer has a
minimum font size of 8pt, while VV allowed you to go all the way down to
1pt. Also, no ability in Composer to do a cloud without a leader? And the
extra text tools in VV are nice, especially the "push pin" note tool. We
use this to distinguish notes to the drafter vs. notes to go on the drawing.
After that one project he uninstalled Composer and went back to VV3. We
will likely stick with VV until these features are restored.
Are any of these I mentioned hidden in Composer? Anyone else who's used VV
extensively agree with his assessment? I find it a bit disappointing to get
a new version of software to find it is missing things you've come to rely
on in previous software (yes, I realize that Compser is not a VV upgrade and
is in a sense a new product, but if it's expected to replace VV, it needs
some work.)