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New and Changed Features in MapInfo Professional
You will notice the following licensing improvements:
• Overdraft licenses are now available if you purchased distributable licenses. Overdraft licenses ensure
that you do not have a service disruption if you lose a license during server migrations or failure. You
can overdraft up to 10% of the number of distributable licenses that you own, so if you own 50
distributable licenses you would have up to 5 overdraft licenses available.
• You can now repair up to 10% of the distributable licenses that you own. If you have 20 distributable
licenses as an example, then the License Server Utility will repair up to 2 broken licenses.
For details about these licensing improvements, see the License Server User Guide that installs with
the License Server software.
MapInfo Professional now works with Microsoft Office 2013. You can open and save your data to Office
2013 Excel and Access files, and embed maps into Office 2013 Word documents.
Searches in a Table List window are now more discrete, using all of the terms that you enter in the
search box instead of the entire phrase. A search will find any table alias that matches any of the terms
(separated by spaces) that you enter.
New Layout Designer Window
MapInfo Professional provides a new Layout Designer window that will eventually replace the classic
Layout window. You can continue creating your layouts in the classic Layout window for printing and
distributing maps, or take advantage of some of the enhanced features in the new Layout Designer
window.
The Layout Designer window contains a live map that you can edit, so that you do not need to toggle
between the layout and editing in the Map window. The Layout Designer window shows the map using
the printer resolution, so that you know beforehand what your printout will look like (you will know what
labels will be on the printed map). In contrast, the Map window shows maps using the screen resolution,
which is not an accurate representation of what the printed map would look like (labels in a Map window
may not be on the printed map). It also offers more advanced alignment tools for designing your layout
and lets you insert image files, such as a company logo, directly to the canvas.
For details and instructions on how to work with the Layout Designer window, see Working with
Layouts .
New Concurrency Setting for Improved Processing
MapInfo Professional provides a new concurrency setting to improve processing speed by running some
operations in parallel.
When processing objects, you can select how much of the operation to perform in parallel using more
than one CPU or processor core. When concurrency is set, MapInfo Professional divides the processing
to multiple cores that simultaneously perform the operation. This improves the processing time when
buffering an object in a table or selection, and with overlay operations (such as Split, Erase, Erase
Outside, Polyline Split, and Overlay Nodes).
By default, MapInfo Professional has full concurrency turned on, but you can select the level of
concurrency as a software preference:
• None – a single processor performs the operation. This option provides the least amount of processing
speed.
• Moderate – 25% of the processors on your system perform the operation.
• Intermediate – 50% of the processors on your system perform the operation.
• Aggressive – 75% of the processors on your system perform the operation.
• Full – all processors on your system perform the operation. This is the default setting MapInfo
Professional installs with.
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