Diff Utility DiffVue 4.6 for XP / Windows 7 has been released.

Online, September 8, 2010 (Newswire.com) - DiffVue Software has recently released DiffVue V4.6, a diff tool, also known as a diff utility for Windows XP/Vista/2003/7, which lets users compare folders/files as well as ftp site's files against the local files by displaying differences visually.

DiffVue V4.6 contains 6 main applications; DiffVue - a main application to compare your local folders and files, DiffFTP - another main application for FTP, DiffEditor - a visual text editor, FullVue - a viewer for non-text files, DiffSearch - an enhanced search utility, and HexCompare - a " Hex compare" utility as well as Hex editor.

Screenshots for each application are available in DiffVue Software's website diffvue.com/gallery.

The unique features that DiffVue V4.6 comparing to other diff utility software are,
- DiffVue recognizes and displays not only the regular text files but also the binary files such as word-processor/spread sheet/presentation documents or even graphics/CAD files.
- DiffVue offers a PDF file rendition not only from any single file but also from the existing folder so that its bookmark pane looks like a folder tree.
- DiffVue offers a set of localization (L10N) tools. For example, detecting any mal-formatted or missing resource strings during L10N process, e.g. translation for foreign languages used to be L10N engineers' nightmare, but detecting them is part of DiffVue L10N tools. The file extensions of the resource file-format recognized by default are RC/RC2/RESX/MC/MTX/INI/IPS.
- DiffFTP compares users' local files/folders against ones in their FTP server by the file contents, and then transfers files like all commercial FTP software.
- HexCompare displays the contents of any two files side-by-side both in hex and ASCII strings. HexCompare is also a hex editor, so that all standard editing operations, such as, insert, overtype, cut, paste, highlighting selection, etc. can be performed.

The followings are the new features added to v4.6:
- Enhanced Windows 7 support including UAC handling
- DiffVue: Drag-n-drop between Windows Explorer and DiffVue, UI enhancement, PDF Output enhancement, etc.
- DiffFTP - DiffVue for FTP: Multi-threading transfer, Enhanced logging & Performance
- FullVue: Major library upgrade to enhance viewing
- DiffEditor: Ability to open Unicode text file in case of missing BOM, "Don't wrap EOF" option in Find dialog
- DiffVue Update: Completely re-designed automatic update mechanism
- HexCompare: Added in 4.6. "Hex Compare" / "Hex Edit" software and it provides the Unicode hex conversion tool

DiffVue offers free-evaluation copy. Its evaluation period is 30 days. Once the evaluation period expires, it still works as before, except it displays the expiration reminder.

DiffVue Software donates the full free copy to the colleges. People in charge of department of Computer Science at college and interested in distributing DiffVue to the students majoring it can contact DiffVue Software via email.