Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop, announced the release of MAPublisher 8.3 for Adobe Illustrator. MAPublisher 8.3 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data for both print and electronic distribution which now offers support for the new version of Adobe Illustrator, CS5.

MAPublisher® cartography software seamlessly integrates over 40 GIS tools into the Adobe Illustrator environment to help you create maps the way you want, how you want. Import the most widely used GIS data formats, including those from ESRI, MapInfo, MicroStation, AutoCAD, Google and the U.S. Government. All GIS data attributes and geographic parameters are maintained, are fully accessible and editable. Export data in a wide variety of standard GIS formats and export documents to Geospatial PDF. MAPublisher Spatial Database is now included as a standard feature (Windows only). Cartography with MAPublisher is now faster, easier and better than it has ever been. When used together with Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, they form the perfect vector/raster mapping package for the Adobe Creative Suite.

New Features of MAPublisher 8.3 for Adobe Illustrator

• Compatibility with Adobe Illustrator CS5 for both Mac and Windows
• New Line Plotter function to create polylines by entering coordinates or the distance and bearing values between points
• Import MAP Objects to copy MAP objects between documents, including Stylesheets and MAP Selections
• Enhanced MAP Selection functionality offering additional selection options including spatial, art and attribute
• New knockout function for easily creating knockouts for text objects
• Buffer Art function to create area objects around points and lines
• MAP Attribute Panel enhancements and optimizations
• New Layer Notes functionality to record information including original dataset path, format, co-ordinate system, object count and date
• Enhanced export to Geospatial PDF functionality now offers control over exported layers with attributes, ability to easily assign attribute values to be used as object names, item sort order and round-trip data control
• MAPublisher Spatial Database import system for ESRI geodatabases now included (Windows only)
• New MAPublisher Web Author JavaScript API functionality including various runtime operations
• New functionality to create MAP Views from Adobe Photoshop paths (Geographic Imager license required)
• Various other user interface improvements and performance enhancements to improve usability

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