Visualization Toolkit graphic file
File type: Graphics file
Files with pdv extension can be most often encountered as graphics fies made using the Visualization Toolkit.
Found 3 different file type records with the same pdv filename suffix.
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: August 10, 2017
File extension pdv is mainly related to Visualization Toolkit, an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization.
VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation
A pdv file contains some sort of graphics data.
Software applications that can open pdv files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pdv files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
File type category:
Encoded and encrypted file
Date updated: October 6, 2026
The pdv file extension is associated with Privacy Drive, a Microsoft Windows application for creating virtual drives that protect sensitive data through encryption.
A pdv file acts as the encrypted storage container for a virtual disk. Privacy Drive uses it to store the files and folders placed on that virtual drive.
This is a proprietary volume format intended to be managed by Privacy Drive rather than opened as a normal document or general-purpose disk image. The file remains usable through Privacy Drive on Microsoft Windows.
Use Privacy Drive on Microsoft Windows to open or mount a pdv file. The application handles the encrypted volume and makes its contents available as a virtual drive after the required credentials are supplied.
A pdv file cannot normally be converted directly to another disk or archive format. To move its contents, open or mount the volume in Privacy Drive and copy the decrypted files to another drive or create a new volume in the required format.
Software applications that can open pdv files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create pdv files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: October 2, 2026
SmartWare is a programming platform built on the Faircom database engine. It also includes word-processing, spreadsheet, and communication modules.
The pdv file belongs to SmartWare's printer support and contains printer driver information used by the software when printing.
This is a legacy format associated with the Microsoft Windows version of SmartWare. It is intended to work as part of the SmartWare installation rather than as a document for general-purpose applications.
Open a pdv file with SmartWare on Microsoft Windows. The software loads the file as a printer driver, so it may not provide a meaningful way to open it independently.
A pdv file is a printer driver file, not a document format, so it cannot normally be converted to another useful file format.
To use the printer with different software, install a compatible printer driver through the operating system or printer manufacturer's software instead of converting the pdv file.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pdv files:
Microsoft Windows
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