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Toronto, ON, July 18, 2006 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces the release of MAPublisher 7.0 for Adobe Illustrator. MAPublisher 7.0 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data.

Significant new functionality in MAPublisher 7.0 includes a new intelligent labeling engine, new grid, graticules and scalebar generators, new and improved MAP attributes engine with expression builder, advanced selection filters and support for double-byte character sets.

"This is a very exciting and impressive upgrade to an already powerful software suite”, said Hans van der Maarel of Red Geographics in The Netherlands. “Especially the new labeling function which will definitely make a large difference in productivity", he added.

Toronto, ON, July 5, 2006 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu, Estonia has purchased multiple MAPublisher software licenses for use in their computer lab.

“MAPublisher is a fantastic tool for landscape architecture and landscape management which will help us combine the technical functionality of GIS and CAD with Adobe Illustrator’s design possibilities.” said Kalev Sepp, Professor of Landscape Management and Nature Conservation.

Toronto, ON, May 9, 2006 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that the National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organization of India (NATMO) has chosen MAPublisher for their map creation needs. This Kolkata-based branch of the Indian government is the prime architect of the National Atlas of India as well as many other major geographic and cartographic projects for the Indian government.

Multiple licenses of MAPublisher have been purchased by NATMO as a first step towards integration into their workflow and the modernizing of their cartographic and geographic production processes.

Toronto, ON, May 1, 2006 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that The National Geographic Society in Washington, DC has chosen both MAPublisher and Geographic Imager for their map creation needs within the book publishing group.

Multiple MAPublisher licenses of both products have been purchased by the NGS, along with onsite MAPublisher training for its cartographic designers.

Toronto, ON, March 6, 2006 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand as well as MAPdataUSA and MAPdataWorld royalty-free data sets, announces that it has released an update to Geographic Imager, a new plug-in suite for Adobe Photoshop CS2 software that adds geospatial functionality to this powerful image editing program.