IDV 1.3b2 release

• To: IDV Users <idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, idvdevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: IDV 1.3b2 release
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:19:36 -0600

The latest Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) release (1.3b2) is
now available for download.  Please see the IDV homepage:

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv

for information on downloading and using the IDV.  Although
this is labeled a beta release, it is actually a stable release
candidate for the final 1.3 release (due in June).  The one thing
that is not finalized in this release is the user documentation.

This release incorporates new features and bug fixes since the
1.2 release including:

User Interface Changes
 - New Navigation Panel
 - New DataSource Properties Widget
Display Changes
 - New Charting Facility
 - New Multi-Display Control
 - New Transect Display
 - Improved Data Probe
 - New Volume Rendering Control
 - Better Animation Controls
 - Sharing Groups
 - View Manager Properties
 - Better color scale handling
 - In-Display labels
Data Changes
 - Grid Subsetting
 - Observations Subsetting
Other Changes
 - Images can be saved to PNG and Animated GIF format.
 - Image Generation
 - Performance enhancements
Bug Fixes
 - Various and sundry bug fixes

For details, please see the Release Notes:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/ReleaseNotes.html

for more information on these changes.

If you have questions or problems, please contact Unidata User Support.
Instructions for doing this are found at:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/Support.html


The IDV Development Team (Jeff and Don)
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