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Recent News

 OCAD SEVEN on Beta Test or click here for our early preview and screenshots!

  Latest MAPN&V issue seven now published and on this link

  BOF Map Conference report now published (paper version) we hope to publish it here subject to permission

  BOF Map Group Newsletters (MAPN&V) now online at http://home.lineone.net/mapnav/index.htm

  Service updates for both OCAD^® 5, 6 & 7 available to download via the OCAD Home Page

  Essential OCAD^® Utilities are available from the archive page,

  ISOM & OCAD^® (Revised pages (21/12/99) Click the link to browse now or download a smaller version from the archive page. This file gives the ISOM specification for each map symbol, how to draw in OCAD, and appropriate tips and hints.

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The BOF Mapping Conference

Brief review to follow, also scanning tips, new utilities and ISOM 2000 report. Call back!

BOF MAPPING CONFERENCE 1997    Initial report

As usual Peter Roberts has put together another excellent conference with something to help and inform all the participants.     It has been a particular pleasure to meet Hans Steinegger, the author of OCAD, who has single handedly transformed orienteering mapping. His presentation, workshops have been extremely informative and make OCAD6 easy to use and future programs a really interesting prospect.

There will be a conference report compiled by Jonathan Sutcliffe, send your contribution to him within the next week please. Also don't forget to keep those articles going to Keith Streb for MAP&NAV, all mapping articles and letters are needed, not just OCAD tips.

Update January 1998  Photos and review in the January issue of  CompassSport, please visit and say thanks

Nice one Ned!

Update April 1998  Course report published by Jon Sutcliffe.

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OCAD Service Updates March 1998

Quoting from the OCAD Homepage:-

"OCAD 7 Service Update 7.09

Changes in the service update 7.09: -

End symbols: At the end of curved lines, end symbols were not displayed in the correct angle. This bug was introduced in 7.07. Corrected. Many thanks to all who have reported the bugs!"

"OCAD 6 Service Update 6.05
This service update corrects a number of small bugs in earlier versions. The new features are:

• faster printing on local PostScript printers
• support of double byte characters (Far East fonts)
• support of Arabic and Hebrew (writing from right to left)
• support of "Big Fonts" (with Eastern Europe character sets)

After downloading unzip the file to a temporary directory and run setup.exe. Install the update to the same directory where the full version of OCAD 6 is installed. ZIP file, 853 kBytes. English, Swedish, Finnish, German, French"

"OCAD 5 Service Update 5.05
This service update corrects a number of small bugs in the versions 5.00, 5.01 and 5.02. In addition to the corrections in 5.03 it supports hard disk partitions > 2 GigaBytes. No new functions are added. The file contains a zipped ocad.exe. After downloading unzip the file to a temporary directory and replace the existing ocad.exe with the new file. ZIP file, 180 kBytes."

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