Release Notes MicroImages, Inc. TNT-Products V. 6.8

RELEASE OF RV6.8 TNT PRODUCTS
contain embedded characters (glyphs) from any language or symbol font. CAD
blocks can be converted to point symbols. A design scale can be specified for
scaling all elements and styles in a group.
• Style Assignment: Style assignment has a new dialog design. Styles can be
assigned to elements with a single mouse selection click. Style assignments can
be undone. Samples are shown for each available style. Styles that have been
changed are highlighted.
• Interactive Styling Text Layer Controls: The TNT Text Layer Controls used in
all processes including the creation and editing of text blocks for maps now integrates
text editing into a single dialog and shows the text elements in the assigned
styles. Using markup codes is no longer necessary but still available. All languages
are supported including 2-byte Unicode languages, such as Japanese,
Chinese, and Korean. Even cursive-like languages, such as Arabic, can be styled
and viewed in this fashion and mixed in the text. All characters, especially special
characters and glyphs, in the 2-byte font can be viewed in a scrolling window and
selected by the mouse for insertion into the text stream in the editor.
• Personal Color Palettes: As many personal color palettes as required can now
be defined in simple XML documents. Several samples of personal color palettes
are provided as XML documents such as the 1024 color USGS palette. Choose
personal color palettes anywhere that palettes are used.
• Map Marginalia: Many new refinements for designing map grid and marginalia
features have been added to improve the appearance of a map. Considerable
flexibility is needed in this area to meet national or other map standards, which are
quite specific, but highly variable between organizations. For example, new controls
are provided for grids and margin tick marks and priorities in cases of conflict.
UTM and Lat/Lon label appearance can be selected and multi-label/grid conflicts
resolved especially at map corners.
• Converting to PDF, SVG, and Illustrator: Conversion of map and other layouts
can be controlled by selecting these file types as your “printer.” Hatch patterns
can be converted. An Additional Options button on the Page Setup window lets
you set certain parameters for PDF and SVG files. Fonts can be embedded,
linked, or rendered into rasters. Raster objects in a layout can be converted to
PNG, compressed or not, and embedded in the SVG or linked to it.
• Importing Oracle Spatial: All Oracle officially supported graphical elements
(called geometry types) and their attribute tables can be imported from an Oracle
Spatial structure (called a layer) into elements in a TNT vector object. An Oracle
Spatial layer is a collection of geometries all having the same attributes set in associated
tables. The attributes in these tables are converted into TNT attribute tables.
If the Oracle Spatial layer is geocoded, then the TNT object will be
georeferenced. The topology of this vector object will be created as your choice of
polygonal, planar, or network during this import even though the Oracle Spatial
layer has none.
• Exporting Oracle Spatial: A vector object can be exported to an Oracle Spatial
layer. The proper tabular structure will be created in Oracle to contain this Oracle
Spatial layer. Its vector elements will become Oracle Spatial geometry types. Attributes
will be placed in corresponding tables. The vector object’s georeference
and associated information are added to the Oracle Spatial metadata tables that
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