Cartographica 1.4.8

Cartographica 1.4.8 is a bug fix and enhancement release for Cartographica 1.4 and contains a number of bug fixes and a few minor feature additions.

Additional information may be found in the release notes for prior bug releases:

OS Compatibility

Cartographica 1.4.8 requires Lion or newer (10.7.5, 10.8.5, 10.9.4+, 10.10.5+, 10.11.6 or 10.12) in order to function correctly. We take the process of removing support for older versions of the OS very seriously, but there are many new features that we could not reasonably support on versions prior to 10.7. Customers using OS X 10.6 will need to remain on the 1.2 versions of Cartographica, which is available, but no longer being actively supported (since 6/1/2013).

Changes since 1.4.7

Feature Enhancements

VectorExporter now defaults to using UTF-8, and gracefully falls back when UTF-8 isn’t available on the layer

Bugs Fixed

Fix rare bug in distribute by Equal Area [CARTOMAC-1715]
Fix crash in Bing Geocoder on 10.7 introduced with 1.4.7 [CARTOMAC-1720]
Fixed bug where VectorExporter could crash with non-ASCII-convertible strings
Fixed bug when loading WMS Layers [CARTOMAC-1288]
Fix bug in GPSUtils when handling integer return types
Fixed crashing bug which occurs mostly on open [CARTOMAC-1187]

Scripting

Improved global projection list management for AppleScript [CARTOMAC-1719]

Known issues

Version 1.4.8 has the following known issues:

Grid labels do not show up
Grid label sample text can be edited–should just be able to change the text attributes

Notices

Important Bing Maps notice

ClueTrust continues to include Bing Maps for both Geocoding and Live Maps for users covered by Maintenance. As of 7/1/2017, Bing Maps has deprecated the older API that we were using in prior versions of Cartographica. Thus, after 7/1/2017, Bing Maps will only be available on Cartographica 1.4.7+.

Future Compatibility

Coming with the release of version 1.5 of Cartographica, we are expecting to increase the requirements. The likely jump will be to 10.12, due to the visual language change, important OS features in that will allow us to support auto-save in a reasonable way, and the ability to provide scripting in Javascript in addition to AppleScript (see Apple's information on this expansion in the Javascript for Automation note. At this time, we are putting the 1.4 versions into critical maintenance only, which means that they will be receiving bug fixes for crucial bugs through 12/31/17. We will continue to provide access to the older software via our web site (as we have with versions 1.1 and 1.2), and will continue to provide support via our ticketing system to users with active support

Resources

Internal Help

Cartographica has the full manual presented as built-in help from the Help menu.

Documentation

The most recent documentation is now available online Cartographica Documentation

Versions are also available in PDF format:

And in ePub format (for readers like Apple Books):