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What’s New in Release 5?
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What’s New in Autodesk MapGuide Author 5?
Map Explorer and Layer Groups
The new Map Explorer interface is designed to help you author maps with
easy access to layer controls, reports, zoom goto definitions, and frequently
used dialog boxes. You can now organize layers into layer groups, which
appear in the Map Explorer and in the Viewer legend.
Continuous Panning and Zooming
Now, you can click the Pan toolbar button or the Zoom toolbar button just
once, and then pan and zoom repeatedly without needing to click the button
again.
Enhanced Printing
You can now use the entire page for printing a map, and you can control
which elements print on the map. When you print a map, you can include a
title, a legend, the map’s scale, a North arrow, the map’s URL, and the current
date and time. Also, you can specify the scale of the map you want to print,
or you can have Autodesk MapGuide automatically scale the map to fit the
printed page.
Support for Multiline Text and Labels on Maps
Autodesk MapGuide Author now supports multiple lines of text in text map
features and labels. This enhances the readability of the display.
Enhanced Symbol and Text Support
You now have greater control over the display of symbols and text. You can
specify symbol and text sizes in ground units (such as miles) as well as screen
units (such as inches), and you can have symbols with independent heights
and widths. You can also control the symbol size and rotation, as well as the
text alignment by specifying OLE DB table columns that contain these
values.
Custom URL for Viewer Help
If you create help content for your customized Autodesk MapGuide Viewer,
you can have the Viewer’s Help
Help Contents command go to the URL
for your help file.