Toronto, ON, June 25, 2012 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.0 for Adobe Illustrator. This release provides long-awaited support for Adobe Illustrator CS6 as well as a number of new and exciting product enhancements.

"We're delighted to release MAPublisher 9.0 that now supports Adobe Illustrator CS6. More importantly, this release is 64-bit compatible for our Windows users, a new sought-after feature that brings many benefits such as increased performance and stability to the Illustrator cartographic and GIS environment,” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza. “We are committed to delivering high-quality geospatial tools as Adobe Illustrator continues to evolve as a high-quality graphics application. We have also included several new features and enhancements which our users will definitely find very useful,” he added.

Enhancements and new features of MAPublisher 9.0

• Fully compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS6 32-bit and 64-bit.
• MAPublisher 9.0 64-bit users on Windows will realize increased performance.
• New icons to match the new Adobe Illustrator CS6 user interface brightness.
• Various user interface improvements and performance enhancements to improve usability.

More about MAPublisher for Illustrator

MAPublisher for Illustrator is powerful map production software for creating cartographic-quality maps from GIS data. Developed as a suite of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator, MAPublisher leverages the superior graphics capabilities of this graphics design software for working with GIS data and producing high-quality maps with efficiency.

MAPublisher 9.0 for Illustrator is available free of charge to all MAPublisher users with an active maintenance subscription and as an upgrade for non-maintenance users at US$599. New licenses are US$1399. MAPublisher FME Auto and MAPublisher LabelPro are also available as add-ons to MAPublisher 9.0 at prices starting at US$399 per license. Academic, floating and volume pricing are also available. Prices include one year of full maintenance. Visit www.avenza.com/mapublisher for more details.

More about Avenza Systems Inc.

Avenza Systems Inc. is an award-winning, privately held corporation that provides cartographers and GIS professionals with powerful software tools for making better maps. In addition to software offerings for Mac and Windows users, Avenza offers value-added data sets, product training and consulting services as well as the PDF Maps app for purchasing and using maps on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices, including GeoPDF®, geospatial PDF and GeoTIFF files. Visit www.avenza.com for more details.