Geocart 3.3.3 released

[daan]

We are pleased to announce the release of Geocart 3.3.3.

This release completely reworks the font infrastructure in Geocart so that PDF exports work much more reliably. It adds two projections.

Tips for successful PDF export:

• Choose TrueType for the most reliable results.
• You can use (most) PostScript-based fonts, but usually these will not get subsetted. Some can be embedded in whole.
• Some TrueType fonts—usually the freeware variety—are missing tables that the font engine requires, and so cannot be embedded. We do not attempt to discover this until PDF export time, so you may be unpleasantly surprised in those cases.
• Some fonts are not licensed for embedding. Normally these can still be properly referenced as long as the PDF file is opened on a machine with the same font installed.
• Don’t forget to use the PostScript name of the font when referencing it from a typesetting database.
• If a font you have installed does not appear in the Available Fonts menu, it means that Geocart has found reasons why using the font will not work, and so excludes it from the list.

Release notes:

• Fixed inability to reference symbols in exported PDF documents. Unicode-encoded glyphs should all be available now if they exist in the font.
• Fixed Help menu’s Available Fonts list to closely match installed fonts that Geocart can use.
• Added Hölzel projection.
• Add Patterson projection.

You can get 3.3.3 from the Downloads page.

Best,
— daan

[daan]

We are pleased to announce the release of Geocart 3.3.3.

We are displeased to announce that the build posted at the time of release does not work on some Macintoshes due to a spurious dependency on a system library that is not installed on some machines. Thanks to Atarimaster for reporting this.

A new binary is available. Please pull it down instead. The version number is unchanged.

— daan