Cartographica 1.4.6
Cartographica 1.4.6 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 1.4.6 requires Lion or newer (10.7.5, 10.8.5, 10.9.4+, or 10.10) 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 1.4.5
Feature Enhancements
- Improved load times for large files (3M point example file now loads in 110s instead of 440s)
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed bug when exporting layer features when the layer has no name [CARTOMAC-1672]
- Fixed bug when handling empty grid snapper and grid values [CARTOMAC-1644]
- Fixed rare crash in importing with join when a layer has no name [CARTOMAC-1555]
- Fixed rare bug where progress window would crash on import.
- Fixed bug which could crash when joining to an existing layer which is selected at the time [CARTOMAC-1607]
- Fixed crash when distributing n-tile distributions with no values [CARTOMAC-1668]
- Fixed bug when dragging and dropping EXIF or vCard files [CARTOMAC-1661]
- Fixed very rare crash in Voronoi Diagrams [CARTOMAC-1442]
- Fixed crashing bug in Map Info when layer had a non-existent name [CARTOMAC-1667]
- Fixed rare bug in drawing when projection results in NAN (non-infinite invalid numbers) [CARTOMAC-1529]
- Fixed out-of-bounds error when using grids (CARTOMAC-1666)
- Fixed crash when using invalid bounds in a map [CARTOMAC-1349]
- Fixed crash when exporting old-format images from a layer. This will only affect very old Cartographica MapSet files. A warning is now presented suggesting replacement of the images in the layer with newly imported ones. [CARTOMAC-1663]
- Hopefully fixed rare bug in closing the Import panel [CARTOMAC-1659]
- Fixed bug which cause Map Layout printing to use lower resolution than specified [CARTOMAC-1662]
- Fixed rare bug which could result in a crash while changing layers [CARTOMAC-1660]
Known issues
Version 1.4.6 has the following known issues:
- We are still trying to track down some circumstances when on 10.9+ systems certain areas of the screen do not immediately refresh. If you experience this problem, please report it. If you can figure out what series of commands makes it happen, please let us know. If it does happen to you, zoom the map and then go back to your previous size and the problem should go away.
- 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