April 14-18, 2010 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC

Avenza will be participating in the conference exhibition and trade show, in booth number 504, during which Avenza staff will be present to demonstrate and discuss MAPublisher and Geographic Imager. This is a great time to see MAPublisher and Geographic Imager in action and to have all your product-related and workflow questions answered. It will also be an opportunity to see the exciting new functionality and features of the latest versions of both products.

- New MAPublisher® add-on offers rule-based collision-free label placement in Adobe® Illustrator® -

Toronto, ON, June 15, 2009 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher LabelPro™, a rule-based collision-free label placement system for MAPublisher.

MAPublisher LabelPro functionality is included with the new MAPublisher 8.1 release, the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data. MAPublisher LabelPro is available immediately as an add-on to MAPublisher 8.1. Users and evaluators of MAPublisher 8.1 may experience MAPublisher LabelPro functionality in evaluation mode.

- New MAPublisher® add-on offers rule-based collision-free label placement in Adobe® Illustrator® -

Toronto, ON, June 15, 2009 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 8.1 for Adobe Illustrator. MAPublisher 8.1 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data for both print and electronic distribution.

MAPublisher 8.1 for Adobe Illustrator is a full product upgrade that is free of charge to all current MAPublisher Maintenance Program subscribers and replaces the current shipping version of MAPublisher, version 8.0, for all new customers using Adobe Illustrator CS3 and/or CS4.

September 13-15, 2009 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Whether you are new to MAPublisher, an experienced user or simply thinking about a purchase, MAPublisher training is worthwhile experience. Avenza offers MAPublisher training at hands-on computer labs around North America. Training is also available on-site at your organization and can be customized for your employees. Please contact us or call 1-800-884-2555 for more details. You can also complete the training reservation form and we will contact you.

Whether you are new to MAPublisher, an experienced user or simply thinking about a purchase, MAPublisher training is worthwhile experience. Avenza offers MAPublisher training at hands-on computer labs around North America. Training is also available on-site at your organization and can be customized for your employees. Please contact us or call 1-800-884-2555 for more details. You can also complete the training reservation form and we will contact you.

Join 7,000 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists from around the world in Las Vegas for the very latest in research, policy, and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience during the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, to be held March 22-27, 2009.

July 13-17, 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California

Whether you are new to MAPublisher, an experienced user or simply thinking about a purchase, MAPublisher training is worthwhile experience. Avenza offers MAPublisher training at hands-on computer labs around North America. Training is also available on-site at your organization and can be customized for your employees. Please contact us or call 1-800-884-2555 for more details. You can also complete the training reservation form and we will contact you.

- Powerful geospatial plug-in suite now supports Adobe Photoshop CS4 -

Toronto, ON, March 2, 2009 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand, Geographic Imager spatial imaging tools for Adobe Photoshop as well as MAPdataUSA, MAPdataCanada and MAPdataWorld royalty-free GIS data sets, announces the release of Geographic Imager 2.1 for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4. Geographic Imager 2.1 is the latest version of this powerful software that adds geospatial functionality to Adobe Photoshop.

“Following the success of the initial Geographic Imager releases we are delighted to follow-up with this update supporting Adobe Photoshop CS4, said Doug Smith, Avenza’s Director of Sales. “With this release we now offer spatial imaging support for Adobe’s most current Photoshop release and further enhance overall spatial image processing within Adobe Photoshop,” he added.