MAPublisher 7.5 and Geographic Imager 1.5

Avenza has released upgrades for MAPublisher (7.5) and Geographic Imager (1.5), thereby making these products compatible with the CS3 line of Adobe products.

Features of MAPublisher 7.5 for Adobe Illustrator
● Support for Adobe Illustrator CS3
● Support for Windows Vista operating system
● Support for Intel-based Mac hardware
● Import and Export support for Google’s KML file format
● Keyboard shortcuts for commonly used MAPublisher functions
● New and improved projection engine with dialog-based coordinate system editing capabilities
● Improved Register Imager function supports registration of images with non-square pixels
● Export of point layers to text files (including co-ordinates and attributes)
● Import support for a wider variety of DMS text formats
● Various other user interface improvements and performance enhancements to improve usability including additional support for Unicode characters

Features and Benefits of Geographic Imager
● Allows the use of Adobe Photoshop native functionality without destroying the spatial properties of the image
● Import and export geotiffs and other spatial raster formats along with all georeferencing
● Georeference non-referenced imagery
● Ground Control Point (GCP) transformation
● Reprojection of spatial imagery
● Automatic mosaicking of spatial imagery
● Mac, Windows and floating licenses available

Features of the Geographic Imager 1.5
● Support for Adobe Photoshop CS3
● Support for Windows Vista
● Support for Intel-based Mac hardware
● New spatial image tiling function offers multiple methods of breaking an image into multiple smaller ones
● New and improved coordinate system database
● Numerous cosmetic fixes and improved overall application stability