CGM

The Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) file format is used to make 2D graphics viewable across a wide range of applications such as technical manual illustrations, cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and presentations. It is most often created from a specialized application to become the final output that end users will look at. It is a standard in aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, automotive and the telecommunications industries for technical manuals such as product operation, maintenance and repair. These books can be printed or available on-line (IETMS). CGM is also used in the petroleum industry for mapping, lithology cross-sections, seismic traces and well logs while the U.S. military uses CGM for simple redlining on top of raster (map) data.

No matter where it's used, CGM is a vector-based file format used for storage, exchange and publishing of technical graphics ranging from CAD drawings to geological plots. Many companies need it for their PDM (Product Data Management), SGML/XML documentation and IETM (Illustrated Electronic Technical Manual) publishing systems.

• Output supports choice of CGM Levels 1-2-3-4
• Compliant with ATA, MIL and PIP industry profiles
• Supports vector graphics, raster images and font-based text
• Supports both metric and abstract scaling
• Curves are retained in Level 3-4 compatible output

Raytheon chose PDF FLY for a project to bring diverse technical graphics from multinational NATO contract vendors into their own commercial AIMSS IETM system as ActiveCGM-compatible CGM files.
product = PDF FLY

The U.S. Coast Guard uses PDF FLY to convert for aircraft manuals illustrations into the CGM format for authoring with Auto-Trol Tech Illustrator and publishing with ArborText SGML Publisher.
product = PDF FLY

Airbus integrated the PDF FLY SDK into a server application for the airline industry for automatic extraction of vector graphics from PDF documents as CGM (along with raster images as TIFF and text as ASCII).
product = FLY SDK