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     <title><![CDATA[KB10876 - Extended Line Symbology]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<h1>
 DRAFT</h1>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Current Status of Extended Line Symbology&nbsp;- A&nbsp;&ldquo;Preview&rdquo;</span>
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  Available as of the DK v. 10.2.0 and Editor/Viewer v. 3.5.0.</li>
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  A deeper optimization (especially on .NET) will be added later.</li>
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  Language specification should be stable.</li ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10867 - Credit card payment rejection or error message.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Payment rejection</strong><br />
To ensure the highest level of security, credit card transactions are checked deeply against the risk of fraud. The most common reasons for rejection are:</div>
<ul>
    <li>The bank (which issued the credit card) uses an&nbsp;automated anti-fraud security system which incorrectly suspects that the use of  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:40 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10639 - SQL based layer formats supported on each database engine.]]></title>
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     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:40:35 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10765 - Support for SQL database map layer formats.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>The TatukGIS <em>DK</em>, GIS<em> Editor</em>, and <em>Internet Server</em> products&nbsp;support the following SQL database layer formats: Microsoft SQL Spatial Server (Katmai), Oracle Spatial/Locator &amp; Oracle GeoRaster, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE &amp; ESRI SDE Raster, ESRI Personal Geodatabase (PGDB), Geomedia Access Warehouse &amp; Geomedia SQL Serv ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10834 - Compare DK code in Delphi, C++ Builder, VC++, VB6, VB.NET, & C#]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<h4>Delphi - DK for VCL code</h4>
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procedure TForm1.GISMouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; Y: Integer);
var
  ptg : TGIS_Point ;
  shp : TGIS_Shape ;
begin
  if Gis.IeEmpty then exit ;

  ptg := GIS.ScreenToMap( Point(x, y ) );
  shp := TGIS_Shape( GIS.Locate( ptg, 5/GIS.Zoom ) ) ;
  if shp = nil then
    StatusBar.SimpleText  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:02:54 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10614 - Procedure to obtain and activate the retail version of a purchased product.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<strong><br />
1) Download the product.</strong> When the purchase payment is received by TatukGIS, the log-in account of the named licensed user under the license will be activated with download access to the retail version of the purchased product. The named licensed user must go to the Downloads page of the TatukGIS web site and log-in using the lice ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10874 - Coordination of a purchase via a purchasing department.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If your situation requires the purchase be performed by your organization's purchasing department (such as if you are not able to pay using your own credit card), there are two possibilities.<br />
<h4>Method 1</h4>
Perform the purchase order yourself to generate the pro forma invoice with the transaction details and provide this to the purchasing depa ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10586 - How to get a pro forma invoice]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A pro forma invoice to document an intended purchase transaction may be obtained from the TatkukGIS system using the following procedure.<br />
<ul>
    <li>Log in on the Shop page of the TatukGIS web site and select the item(s) to be purchased using the normal on-line purchase procedure described in <a href="~/KB10866.aspx">KB10866</a>.</li>
    <li> ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:32:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10866 - Purchase procedure, payment options, supported credit cards, shipping costs...]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<ul>
    <li>Purchases of TatukGIS products are performed on-line via the Shop section of the TatukGIS web site, with payment by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express&hellip;) or bank wire transfer.</li>
    <li>Upon completion of the on-line purchase procedure, a pro forma invoice is generated and can be printed out. If the bank wire transfe ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10871 - Design philosophy of the TatukGIS Editor product.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>TatukGIS recognizes that it is not possible to pack into the default user interface every feature that every user might want, implemented in the way that each user would like, without complicating the user interface to the point of it becoming cluttered and difficult to learn and use. Therefore, features are separated into two categories: essential &a ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:27:02 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10872 - Using ViewFeatures on SQL layers.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When using the <em>layer.ViewFeatures</em> property, a complicated sub-query can be sent to the database to narrow the dataset.<br />
<br />
By setting <em>ViewFeatures</em> to a non-empty string, the build in <em>TableFeatures</em> is disabled.<br />
<br />
<strong>Example:</strong>
<div style="margin-left: 40px"><tt>ll.ViewFeatures = &quot;MyView& ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:57:11 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10859 - Delphi & C++Builder versions supported by DK10 3D.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: smaller;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">This KB is valid only for DK10.0.1 and up.<br />
</span></span>Due to some internal limitations, the 3D code is compiled with custom DirectX import unit <em>GisDirectXLite</em>. The main reason for this is that is that the DirectX9 libraries provided with Delphi do  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10493 - Convert a SHP (or other vector format) map file into a SQL database layer? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The easiest option is to use the TatukGIS <em>Editor</em> product to export the vector map file from any TatukGIS supported vector map format, e.g., SHP, EOO, MID/MIF, TAB, DXF, DGN, TIGER, OSM, GML, VPF, DLG, SDTS, GPX, GDF, KML... into an TatukGIS supported SQL database map layer format, e.g e.g., TatukGIS SQL binary, OpenGIS (OGC) SQL Simple Features  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:19:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10793 - Targeting x64 code with Developer Kernel for .NET.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<strong>DK9<br />
</strong>The DK.NET 9 can be used to compile x64 code. However, there are some limitations:<br />
<ol>
    <li>Not all layer formats are supported. Generally formats utilizing external .DLL libraries, such as the ECW format, are not supported because a number of external drivers are still 32 bit.</li>
    <li>Debugging 64 bits code  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:39:04 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.tatukgis.com/KB10793.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10870 - Policy on use of purchase orders (PO’s). ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>Acceptance of a purchase order (PO) involves granting a customer the right to use a TatukGIS product, along with technical support, before the customer pays for the license. This requires TatukGIS to make a decision to grant credit to the customer. Typical PO terms call for payment after 30 or 60 days, sometimes even longer. As always with the extensi ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:38:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10792 - Visibility (disappearance) of long street name labels at various zoom levels.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For a given label to appear when using the follow-the-line positioning feature, the length of the line segment (between any two line nodes) at a given scale (zoom) level must be longer than the label. If within a given map view, no segment of a particular line is of a sufficient length to accommodate the label, the label will not be rendered. (Labels are ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:42:56 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10708 - Export an image of map view with legend panel and/or scale bar.  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An image of the map viewer window, the legend panel, and the scale bar panel can be exported independently using: GIS.PrintBMP, Legend.PrintBMP, and Scale.PrintBMP. For example, GIS.PrintBMP can be used to export the image of the map viewer window and Scale.PrintBMP to export an image of the scale bar panel. Then the two images can be merged into one.<br ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10763 - Export only specific objects from a vector map layer, such as based on an extent, attribute query, etc. 
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     <description><![CDATA[The TatukGIS Editor's <em>Layer Export</em> procedure provides settings to filter the exported data based on extent, selection, shape type (polygon, line, points, or multi-points), attribute query, or any combination of these parameters. For example, it would be possible to export only the line shapes (so not point or polygon geometry) from a DXF file wh ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:34:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10865 - Open map data purchased on a CD in the TatukGIS Viewer?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>TatukGIS does not sell any map data products by CD, so your purchase must have been from some other company. (TatukGIS offers - either for free or for a price - only a very limited number of data sets by download from the TatukGIS web site.) Please direct support questions to the company from which you made the purchase. TatukGIS is unable help with d ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:29:39 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10820 - Converting coordinates between two coordinate systems.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>A point can be converted between any two supported (and compatible) coordinate systems. The easiest way is to use EPSG codes (see also <a href="http://www.tatukgis.com/KB10821.aspx">KB10821</a>).<br />
<strong><br />
Example<br />
</strong>Projection of points from WGS84 to the Irish National Map Grid coordinate system is performed as follows:</p> ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:47:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10762 - Convert vector data between file types, such as from SHP to DXF: Two methods.
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     <description><![CDATA[<p>The TatukGIS <em>product (Developer Kernel, Editor, Internet Server) </em>support two methods to convert GIS vector map data between file types (formats).</p>
<ol>
    <li>Import operation. The creation of a new (empty) vector map layer requires the user to specify the file type of the layer. If a vector map file of a different type is then opened i ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:07:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10674 - Cut a map layer into a specified number of rectangular segments, each of the same size.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An example might be to divide (split) a SHP map layer of a 30x30 km area into nine individual SHP files, with each file containing a unique 10x10 km coverage from the original file with no overlaps and no loss of data. <br />
<br />
There are two methods to perform this operation using the TatukGIS <em>Editor</em>:
<ul>
    <li>manually, using the La ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10441 - Render the colors of map features based on attribute table values

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     <description><![CDATA[<p>TatukGIS products, e.g., the <em>Developer Kernel</em> <em>(DK), Internet Server</em> <em>(IS), Editor</em>, and free <em>Viewer</em>, contain a powerful visual layer property control to enable the user to set any visual style, e.g. colors, line widths, line types, polygon fills, polygon boarders, labels, icons/symbols, bitmap images, transparencies,  ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10709 - Export multiple geometry types (points, lines, polygons) from multiple SHP layers to a single KML file.  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[<p>Each SHP file, of course, is limited to data of a single geometry type (points, multi-points, lines, or polygons), whereas KML files can hold multiple geometry types together in the same file.</p>
<p>Using the TatukGIS <em>Editor </em>product, the procedure to combine all the exported data into a single KML files is:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
    <li> ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:54:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[KB10360 - Custom render icons/symbols to reflect qualitative information 

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     <description><![CDATA[<br />
Value dependent rendering&nbsp;can be performed using a *.TTKGP file (TatukGIS project file) or *.INI files. For example:<br />
<br />
<code>[TatukGIS Layer1]<br />
Path=mylayer.shp<br />
<br />
[TatukGIS Layer1 1]<br />
Render=severity&lt;5<br />
MarkerColor=GREEN<br />
<br />
[TatukGIS Layer1 2] <br />
Render=severity&gt;=5<br />
Mar ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
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