Mapping Suite Versions on Windows and Unix / Linux
This page lists all available versions available on Windows and Unix / Linux systems as well as some key features. It also includes roadmap information for the current year and the year to come.
Mapping 7.1
Release date: 2012
Supported OS: Windows Server 2008, 2012. AIX 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2. RHEL 6 et 7.
End of availability: 31 Dec. 2018
End of support: 31 Dec. 2019
New:
- XPS format
Mapping 7.2
Release date: 2014
Supported OS: Windows Server 2008, 2012. AIX 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2. RHEL 6 et 7.
End of availability: 31 Dec. 2019
End of support: 31 Dec. 2020
New:
- "Microsoft Office" ribbon style menus for Designer and Connect
- Main applications have been renamed
Mapping 8.0
Release date: 2019
Supported OS: Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019. RHEL 6 and 7.
End of availability: N/A
End of support: N/A
Mapping ONYX 9.1
Release date: October 2019
Supported OS: Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019. RHEL 6 and 7.
End of availability: N/A
End of support: N/A
Roadmap
New functionality planned for 2020
- Advanced dynamic tables, easier to design including support for paragraphs
New:
- XPS format
New:
- "Microsoft Office" ribbon style menus for Designer and Connect
- Main applications have been renamed
New:
- XPS process optimization via m-engine
- Advanced page numbering directly in Designer (batches and number of pages)
New:
- Optimised PDF file handling without conversion
- Concatenation of PDF files and page extraction without using XPS format. Simpler. Safer. Faster.
- Pre-processing of XML files natively in M-Designer
- Sort, group, deduplicate, transform, prefixing, and support for widows and orphans.
- See documentation
- Simplified handling of resources
- Optimised call for resources. Dynamic referencing of fonts, images, logos and overlays. No more LSTOBJ.TXT file
- Environment banners with text and colour
- A customised Production, Development or Testing banner is added to each Mapping environment and is configured in the application's general settings (mapping.conf)
- Support for additional PDF standards: PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3b
- Optimised PDF file handling without conversion
- Improved compatibility of Datamatrix barcodes with GS1 standard
- Improved compatibility of Datamatrix barcodes with GS1 standard
New:
- New log management system for the Workflows
- With Amethyst - the new log management system in Mapping ONYX - you can now build customized log messages and specify various output channels. Includes support for asynchronous mode while adding more information without compromising performance.
- See documentation
- Versioning of Designer and Connect formats with ability to restore previous versions
- Rollback management for Designer and Connect formats let you restore previous versions in the blink of an eye.
- See documentation
- Sorting and filtering options on lists
- With filtering and sorting, the long lists of several tenths or even hundreds of formats or workflows are no longer a problem.
- The filters let you display only the desired objects.
- Error management in Workflows
- When an error occurs in a workflow, another workflow can be called to execute a back-up process.
- Support for "Tool / Replace File" zones with XML data streams
- XML in Replace File zones enhance documents using information coming from any simple text files using filename and line number.
Nouveautés :
- Amélioration de la preview concernant les images dans le Designer
- Avec cette nouvelle version, il n'est plus nécessaire d'utiliser des images dynamiques ayant une résolution de 300dpi pour que l'aperçu dans le designer soit identique au résultat après composition. Avec les versions antérieures, le Designer considérait que les images étaient toujours en 300dpi. La composition ne réagissant pas de la même façon, le résultat final (PDF, Impression, etc) ne correspondait pas toujours à l'aperçu dans le Designer.
- Diverses corrections d'anomalies
- AZTEC barcodes
- Cloning of individual printers and printer pools
- Support for Khmer language
- Queue overflow - Send alerts when a queue has too many jobs waiting
- Diverses corrections d'anomalies
