MapViewer 4 Release History

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Version 4.02 (December 18, 2001)

• The Thin Boundary command can now handle any size polygon/polyline.
• The display of various reports has been improved under Windows 2000.
• The Digitize command is now enabled in an empty document.
• Golden Software Interchange (GSI) files from Didger 3 are fully compatible with MapViewer 4.
• Graticule lines for the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection have been improved.
• The initial size of a map in page units is now included on the status bar when you use the Map | Move/Size All Layers command.
• Moved the “LogPerInch” setting from the Registry to the Map.ini file.
• You can now specify different tables from an Access Data (MDB) file when you create multiple maps in a single plot window.
• Improved the ESRI Shapefile (SHP) export filter to properly export IDs.
• Printing problems involving black lines have been corrected.
• You now have the option to specify input data units when you import a file with an unknown projection.
• The Object Managers update correctly during the conversion from docked to floating window style under Windows 95, 98, and ME.
• File | Preferences now contains the option to specify Exact or Proportional symbol sizing.
• Import problems involving ESRI Shapefile Primary and Secondary IDs have been resolved.
• Year 2000 US Census data and various country boundary files have been added to the MapViewer 4.02 CD and the Golden Software FTP site.
• Importing a MapViewer (gsm) file into an existing Map Document no longer causes the coordinate space to change.

• Converting to certain map projections no longer results in text that is upside-down.
• When the map scale is changed, the font size displays the points appropriate to the scaling of height. 
• The State Plane 1927 display units have been changed from meters to US feet.
• Color Classes of Prism Maps are now affected by the Global Data option under the General tab in the Prism Map dialog box.
• The selection of a GSM file for the boundary in a thematic map no longer causes MapViewer to shut down.
• When Map Limits are set, copy and paste includes the limited map area plus any objects partially outside of the limits. The white space containing the data limit extents is no longer present.
• Map graticule updates correctly when map limits are changed numerous times or have been undone.
• Maps created in earlier versions of MapViewer have their IDs positioned correctly.
• The Change File button in the Line Graph dialog box functions properly.
• Spaces can be included in text strings.
• Various Bounding Box redraw problems have been fixed.
• MapViewer Reports created using Windows 2000 have the correct heading format and style.
• The GSB file export includes all map areas when exported as a version 3 GSB file.
• Renamed Zaire to Democratic Republic of the Congo in all files containing Africa.
• HI.gsb contains all of the major Hawaiian Islands, and a GSB file based on individual Hawaiian Islands has been added.
• Added a GSB file containing the State Plane 1983 Zones.
• Pin Map symbols and labels adjust properly when the coordinates are changed in the associated data file.
• When a multiple sheet excel file is chosen for a data file, the prompt to choose a sheet always appears.

Version 4.00 (January 25, 2001)

• MapViewer 4 was released.