MAPINFO PROVIEWER 8.5 RELEASE NOTES:

New Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 8.5
1. Improved printing for large images (size D, E, or A0)
2. View Info tool info about 3D GRD maps
3. View reprojected raster images rather than only vectors 
4. AirPhoto Raster Handler Upgraded
5. Coordinate System Enhancements 
   * ETRS-based Coordinate Systems Added: 
	Transverse Mercator Zone 26-39, 
	Lambert Conformal Conic, and 
	Azimuthal Equal Area. 
   * Lithuanian and Latvian Coordinate Systems Added: 
	LKS-92, and Longitude/Latitude (LKS-92)
   * Added EPSG codes to Lithuanian Coordinate Systems: 
	LKS-94, 
	Baltija-92, 
	Longitude / Latitude (LKS-94) and 
	KS-1942 Zone 4
   * Estonian Coordinate System Added: L-EST 97
   * Swedish Coordinate System Added for Aviation maps
   * South African Coordinate System Zones Added
   * Added several Gauss Kruger Coordinate System zones
6. Enlarged Status Bar.
7. New Help System.

Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 8.0
1. Increased number of nodes permitted per object for regions, polylines, and multipoints
2. Added support for the ASRP version 1.2 raster format
3. New Datums, Projections and Ellipsoids for 8.0
    * Chinese Coordinate Systems
    * Guernsey Grid Coordinate System
    * Hellenic Geodetic Reference System
    * Baltic Projections (Lithuanian and Latvian)
    * New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000
    * New Belgian Coordinate System
    * Additional British National Grid Coordinate System
4. Mouse Wheel Support for Browser Window
5. Added the Arc Grid Handler to support the use and display of ESRI grid files
Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 7.8
1. Support for viewing workspaces and tab files with Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) layers. GetFeatureInfo support via Info Tool
2. Large crosshair support allows users to more precisely select nodes.
3. Ability to open tab files that reference larger Excel files (with more than 32K rows).
4. Enhanced centroid snap capabilities.
5. Enhanced 3D map resolution.
6. Upgraded raster handlers.
7. Support of Removed 255K character limit in Layout and Map windows in workspaces.

Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 7.0
1. New Microsoft Windows like File open Dialog with support for My Documents, Desktop etc.
2. TAB File referencing a shape file support
3. Built in ECW, MrSid, JPEG 2000, ADRG, CADRG, CIB and NTIF raster format support for files that are referenced by TAB files.

Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 6.5
1. Invert Selection
2. Display 3D Prism maps created and saved in workspaces with MapInfo Professional 6.5
3. Display translucent raster images and grid files saved in workspaces with MapInfo Professional 6.5

Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 6.0
1. Display and manipulate (rotate, pan, zoom, print, info tool) 3D Map views saved in workspaces with MapInfo Professional 6.0.
2. Launch URLs and documents associated with objects with the HotLink tool. HotLink settings specified and saved as metadata with MapInfo Professional 6.0.
3. Select map objects with marquee, radius, and existing or freehand polygons.
4. Select graph objects.
5. Support all workspace printer settings.
6. Support ECW compressed image files.
7. Support Vertical Mapper grid files.
8. Support Windows 2000 and Office 2000.



Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 5.5:
1. Displaying coordinates in Degree, Minute, Seconds in the status bar by cursor location (by clicking on the status bar).
   You can display coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds (for example, 75 degrees 12' 48") or in decimal degrees (for example, 75.213458 degrees).  The default for displaying coordinates is decimal degrees. 
2. MrSID Raster Handler, The MrSID raster handler allows you to open and display raster images compressed in the MrSID format. You can install the MrSID raster handler during the ProViewer 5.5 installation process or at a later date using the ProViewer CD.  A sample .sid file and a raster image of Paris is included. MrSID format image handler software is licensed from Schlosser Geographic Systems, Inc.
3. Oracle8i Spatial is a new implementation of a spatial database from Oracle Corporation. It has some similarities to the previous Oracle SDO implementation, but is significantly different. Oracle8i Spatial maintains the Oracle SDO implementation via a relational schema Intersolv.  You will be able to open Oracle8i Linked Tables
4. Snap cursor support for the snap settings for a window (mapper and layout). 
5. Distance/Area using calculation method will display when double clicking on an object:
   Spherical - Spherical calculations are used for distance methods which attempt to keep the measurement on the curved surface of the earth.  The data is first converted to Latitude/Longitude and then a calculation is produced.  Non-Earth projections cannot use spherical calculations.
   Cartesian - Cartesian methods are used to perform calculations on data projected onto a flat plane. Cartesian coordinates are a pair of numbers, (x, y), defining the position of a point in a two-dimensional space by its perpendicular projection onto two axes which are at right angles to each other. Lon/Lat projections cannot use Cartesian calculations.

Functionality inherited from MapInfo Professional 5.0:
1. Render new 'Grid' tables created in MapInfo Professional 5.0 with new 'Surface Thematic' capability.
2. Render new 'Cartographic Legends' created in MapInfo Professional 5.0 and saved in a workspace.
3. New label tool. Use it to directly label map items with the cursor.
4. New Select menu
	Select All. Use it to select all items in a table.
	Unselect All. Use it to unselect all selected items.
5. Find. Use it to find a specific item in a map or browse window.
6. Find Selection. Use it to position map and browse windows so that selected are visible.



Other notes:
1. You cannot view or change a projection.
2. You cannot view or change metadata.
3. The only way to close a window (Map, Browser, Layout, etc.) is to close the table (File>Close Table, File>Close All).  
4. If a workspace includes a Message window, it will not display in ProViewer. 
5. You must have local access to any custom fonts, symbols, or line styles from MapInfo Professional that a table or a workspace references.
6. You cannot refresh linked tables, although ProViewer can display the copies of the records contained in the local table.
7. As in MapInfo Professional, printing to Hewlett Packard PCL printers, which includes LaserJets and ColorJets, may result in incorrect output using the default printer settings. The following settings need to be changed:
* Under Printer Properties, Device Settings, Page Protection should be turned ON, and the printer memory setting may have to be increased. The driver, by default, does not know how much memory is in your printer. If Page Protection is not turned on, the printer may abort the print operation. Part of the page will be missing from the output as a result.
* Under Document Defaults, Advanced, Document Options, Print Text as Graphics should be turned ON. Without this setting, halo fonts may print incorrectly with the white background covering the black foreground text. 
Note: These settings are for Windows NT 4.0. The settings may differ for NT 3.51 and Windows 95. 
8. In ProViewer, you cannot drag a legend into a Word document unless the legend was embedded in the Map window with MapInfo Professional.
9. ProViewer provides no ability to change distance units. 
10. When you open more than one table, ProViewer always maps them in separate Map windows. The only way to combine multiple tables into a single Map window is to create a workspace using MapInfo Professional and then open the workspace in ProViewer.
11. The MapShell program that comes with ProViewer provides the ability to embed a map in a Word document and interact with the map. This version of the program, however, does not have all the capability as the version that comes with MapInfo Professional or MapInfo RunTime.  In addition, the version of MapShell that ProViewer uses depends on whether you also have MapInfo Professional or MapInfo RunTime installed on your system.  Each circumstance is explained below: 
* If MapInfo Professional and ProViewer are on the same system, the version of MapShell that comes with MapInfo Professional takes control.
* If you uninstall MapInfo Professional, the version of MapShell that comes with ProViewer takes control.
* If MapInfo RunTime and ProViewer are on the same system, the version of MapShell that comes with MapInfo RunTime takes control.
* If you uninstall MapInfo RunTime, MapShell is disabled until you reinstall ProViewer or rename MapShell.DRV to MapShell.EXE and explicitly run it.
12. There is no way to associate .TAB or .WOR files to ProViewer so that if you click on them, ProViewer will automatically start and open them.
13. You can rearrange columns in a Browser by clicking on the column title and dragging the column to a new position.
14. If multiple tables are selected for opening in the Open Table dialog, and during the open table operation one of the tables fails to open, none of the subsequent tables in the sequence will open. 
15. As in MapInfo Professional, when ProViewer encounters an error during the opening of a workspace, the open operation stops. 
16. As in MapInfo Professional, you cannot drag a Map window from ProViewer into PowerPoint for Office 97. It works in PowerPoint 95. 
17. The Select tool does nothing in the Layout window.
18. If you create a duplicate of a Map window with the Drag and Drop tool, you can close the duplicated window with the Windows Close button (upper right corner of the window). 
19. If the layers of a workspace are unselectable in MapInfo Professional, when the workspace is opened in ProViewer the Info tool will not display any information on those layers. 
20. If a pull-down menu contains no options, the word "Empty" will display when the menu is selected. 

