What's new in TAB Reader 6.0
TAB Reader for ArcGIS Pro
- All TAB Reader tools and features are now available for ArcGIS Pro.
New subscription license type
- One year subscription licenses are now available for ordering.
New plug-in datasource engine
- New version is based on the new engine allowing for better support of MapInfo TAB files and workspaces.
Improved support for MapInfo workspaces
- Improved support for selection layers.
- Improved support for thematic maps.
- Maps spatial reference is now taken into account for previewing in ArcCatalog.
Improved support for MapInfo symbology
- TAB Reader now contains standard MapInfo raster marker symbols.
- Improved support for MapInfo polygon and text symbol styles.
Improved support for MapInfo TAB files
- Fixed support for spatial reference of raster datasets in TAB format
Extended functionality for Feature classes to TAB tool
- Event feature layers are now supported for conversion.
What's new in TAB Reader 5.5
Support for ArcGIS 10.7
- TAB Reader 5.5 version can be installed and used with ArcGIS 10.7.
Improved support for MapInfo workspaces
- Picture based symbols are now supported in workspaces.
What's new in TAB Reader 5.4
Support for ArcGIS 10.6
- TAB Reader 5.4 version can be installed and used with ArcGIS 10.6.
Added support for collections feature type
- TAB Reader 5.4 now recognizes feature collections in TAB files.
Extended support for TAB files
- TAB files referencing the CSV and TXT files are now supported.
Extended support for MapInfo workspaces
- All tables are now imported from MapInfo workspaces (.wor) to ArcGIS.
What's new in TAB Reader 5.3
Support for ArcGIS 10.5
- TAB Reader 5.3 version can be installed and used with ArcGIS 10.5.
Updated user interface
- TAB Reader 5.3 presents updated UI of the tool dialogs. New dialogs are now more compact, clean and easier to use.
Extended support for TAB files
- TAB files referencing the Access databases (MDB, ACCDB), DBF, and Excel files are now supported.
Extended support for thematic maps
- Following thematic maps now can be imported to ArcGIS: Dot Density, Pie Chart, Bar Chart.
Support for selection layers
- Selection layers in workspaces are now supported and imported to ArcGIS as definition queries.
Support for string functions
- String functions (e.g. Chr$, Format$, FormatNumber$ etc.) in MapInfo workspaces are now supported and transferred to ArcGIS.
What's new in TAB Reader 5.2
Support for 64-bit background geoprocessing
- TAB Reader 5.2 adds support for ArcGIS 64-bit background geoprocessing.
Improved support for layers
- TAB Reader 5.2 better supports layers in ArcMap (selections, definition queries).
What's new in TAB Reader 5.1
Support for ArcGIS 10.4
- TAB Reader 5.1 version can be installed and used with ArcGIS 10.4.
What's new in TAB Reader 5.0
TAB Reader 5.0 is a new major version of the product introducing following new tools, changes and improvements:
New conversion tools TAB/WOR to ArcGIS
- New tools allow importing MapInfo TAB (MIF/MID) files and workspaces (WOR) to ArcGIS geodatabases and map documents
Geoprocessing environment support
- The tools are now geoprocessing tools and can be used not only from the TAB Reader toolbar in ArcMap and ArcCatalog but also from ArcToolbox and in the models and scripts
Extended support for MapInfo workspaces
- MapInfo workspace (.wor) files can be explored and previewed in ArcCatalog (Catalog)
Improved support for MapInfo symbols:
- No custom renderers
- MapInfo symbols can be saved as ArcGIS representations
- Standard and custom MapInfo styles and symbols (MapInfow.pen, MapInfow.fnt, FillSymbols) now supported
- Vector graphics (metafiles) now supported
Improved support for TAB-texts
- Texts from TAB files can be converted to ArcGIS geodatabase annotation feature classes
All new user interface
- The new tools provide the new look and feel of the product featuring extended capabilities for working with data.