Avenza Announces MAPublisher 7.5 and Geographic Imager 1.5
Toronto, ON, – Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announced the release of two new products:
MAPublisher 7.5 for Adobe Illustrator CS2 and CS3 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data.
Also new from Avenza is Geographic Imager 1.5 for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3. Geographic Imager 1.5 is the latest version of this powerful software that adds geospatial functionality to Adobe Photoshop.
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
Beginning July 3, 2007, Geographic Imager for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 will be available free of charge to all Geographic Imager customers with a valid maintenance subscription and as an upgrade for non-maintenance members at US$269. New licenses are US$599 for a single-user fixed commercial license. Prices include 1 year of maintenance.
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
Beginning July 3, 2007, MAPublisher 7.5 for Illustrator will be available free of charge to all MAPublisher for Illustrator customers with a valid maintenance subscription and as an upgrade for non-maintenance members at US$499. New licenses are US$1149. Prices include 1 year of maintenance. Full details are available at www.avenza.com.
More about Avenza Systems Inc.
Avenza Systems Inc. is an award-winning, privately held corporation that provides cartographers and GIS professionals with powerful software tools for making better maps. In addition to software offerings for Mac and Windows users, Avenza offers value-added data sets, product training and consulting services. Visit www.avenza.com for more details.
