Product Overview
Maintain Charts using Raster Layers
Paper Chart Editor now includes optional functionality for creating and editing raster charts. This includes:
- Import monochrome raster layers from RLE or TIFF format images
- Display raster layers with colouring and display precedence
- Edit layers using brush and erase tools
- Move, stretch and rotate selections of raster
- Cut, copy and paste selected raster data
- Update the raster image by burning-in vector features
- Allow quality assurance on proposed changes before acceptance
- Export to PostScript or TIFF formats
- Colour seperate layers can be registered in raster charts
- Paste Special option for raster chart to place cut or copy features into a different raster layer
- Raster layers can now be exported to unregistered 1-bit TIFF image files
- The boolean operation can be carried out on raster layers
Export BSB-format Raster Navigational Charts
Paper Chart Editor now includes optional functionality for exporting your raster chart as a Raster Navigational Chart (RNC) in the widely-used BSB format. Features include:
- Export a vector chart from Paper Chart Editor, to create a BSB-format RNC
- Export a raster chart from Paper Chart Editor (see "Maintain Charts using Raster Layers", above) to create a BSB-format RNC
- Compliance with BSB version 3
- RNCs in BSB format can be used for on-board navigation as well as for GIS applications
- Vector features can be digitized into charts containing raster layers and then exported to a BSB file or TIFF format without having to burn the features into the raster layers first
