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 mcont(contour_level_selection_type = "interval",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_max_level_colour = "red",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow = "on",
	contour_highlight = "off",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_direction = "clockwise",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_min_level_colour = "blue",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_method = "calculate",
	contour_interval = 1.00)
 

• A contour_automatic_setting parameter has also been introduced, if set to ecchart, Magics will try to match the parameter with one of the predefined ecChart style.

mcont(contour_automatic_setting = "ecchart")

• Robinson and lambert_north_atlantic projections have been added. Please, Inform us if you require new ones.
  

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• [MAGP-858]  Fix bug in implementation of contour_hi 
• [MAGP-849] Improve handling of missing values in NetCDF.
• [MAGP-864] Improve Tailored observation plotting [MAGP-864]
• [MAGP-860] Add more parameters to handle epsbox plotting
• [MAGP-859]  Fix bug in EPSG:4326
  

Magics Version 2.29.5 - 2 September 2016   [branch:master  tag:2.29.6]

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 mcont(contour_level_selection_type = "interval",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_max_level_colour = "red",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow = "on",
	contour_highlight = "off",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_direction = "clockwise",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_min_level_colour = "blue",
	contour_line_colour_rainbow_method = "calculate",
	contour_interval = 1.00)
 

• A contour_automatic_setting parameter has also been introduced, if set to ecchart, Magics will try to match the parameter with one of the predefined ecChart style.

mcont(contour_automatic_setting = "ecchart")

• Robinson and lambert_north_atlantic projections have been added. Please, Inform us if you require new ones.
  

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Current default and test versions become 2.14.11 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Fix for curve plotting

Magics export and new Version 2.14.10 (28th February 2012)

Current test versions become 2.14.10 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Adjustment of legend position
• Bug fix in setting of input matrix)
• Bug fix in cell_shading for nearest method
• Cleaning of setting of curve input data
• Better handling of long time series
• Fix for legend in symbol table mode for last item
• Fix text alignment for PostScript output

Magics export and new Version 2.14.9 (19th January 2012)

Current test versions become 2.14.9 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Update GRIB_API to version 1.9.14
• Fix in default colour for isoline label
• Adjustment of axis tip positioning
• Clean-up of log messages
• Improve installations for Mac OS X systems

Magics export and new Version 2.14.8 (13th December 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.8 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Improvement for histogram legend (suggested by ODB team)
• Fix in Symbol plotting (reported by obstat team)
• Fix for disputed borders
• Clean-up of installation directory for Python interface (reported by MPI Hamburg)

Magics export and new Version 2.14.7 (30th November 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.7 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Footer is now printed as last action again
• Add fall-back definition for Observation plotting
• Bug fix for handling of HSL colour values in PNG and SVG output

Magics default user and new Version 2.14.6 (23th November 2011)

The default user and test versions become 2.14.6 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Bug fix for empty page and empty subpages to be ignored (Reported by obstat)
• Axis minor count fix (Reported by Tim S.)

Magics export and new Version 2.14.5 (22nd November 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.5 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Bug fix for graph plotting using symbols.

Magics (new) Version 2.14.4 (21st November 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.4 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Fix to disable wind legend
• Improving the plotting of missing data
• Improvements for PNG and SVG output
• Updates to installation scripts and RPM spec files

Magics (new) Version 2.14.3 (17th November 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.3 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Improvements to international boundaries and coastlines

Magics export and new Version 2.14.2 (14th November 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.2 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Two new parameters to control the contouring of noisy fields
  • contour_internal_reduction_factor (PSETR ; 1 to 4 ; default='4')
  • contour_internal_technique  (PSETC ; interpolate/nearest ; default='interpolate')
• Improvements for legend user text
• Updates on the SVG output
• Bug fix for arrays in Python interface
• Update on configure installation scripts to give better feedback if dependencies are missing

Magics export and new Version 2.14.1 (26th October 2011)

Current test versions become 2.14.1 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Improvements for logarithmic axes
• Updates on the SVG output

Magics export Version 2.14.0 (14th October 2011)

This version includes all updates from the 2.13 release series:

• New Coastline data
• New additional geographical information, such as rivers and political boundaries
• New legend type for advanced symbol plotting
• Reorganisation of PYTHON module. User of 'magmacro' NEED TO CHANGE the import command to
      import Magics.macro
• User logo has been deprecated in favour of pimport

Magics (new) Version 2.13.10 (13th October 2011)

Current test versions become 2.13.10 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• New Feature: We are introducing a new legend type for advanced symbol plotting.
  legend_legend_display_type='histogram'
  to present an histogram of the data in the legend box. An example plot is attached and the example Python code can be found in the bottom of this email.
  We plan to extend this facility to the other type of visualisation depending on your feedback.
• Adjustments on text and legend to take into account all the comments from users migrating their code from old to new magics. Thanks for your feedbac

Magics (new) Version 2.13.9 (29th September 2011)

Current test versions become 2.13.9 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Adjustments for migration users from MAGICS 6
• Add parameter LEGEND_ENTRY_TEXT_WIDTH
• Add parameter AXIS_DATE_LABEL_FORMAT
• Bug fix in curve clipping
• Reorganisation of PYTHON module. User of 'magmacro' NEED TO CHANGE the import command to
      import Magics.macro

Magics (new) Version 2.13.4 (13th July 2011)

Current test versions become 2.13.4 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• Offset in bar plots fixed (Reported by RD and MetOps)
• Fix for TEXT_LEGEND_HEIGHT (Reported by RD)

Magics (new) Version 2.13.3 (11th July 2011)

Current test versions become 2.13.3 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm

• The underlining data set for coastlines/rivers has been changed
• Sizes of PostScript and SVG files have been reduced (reported by MetOps)
• Improvements for AXIS_TYPE (reported by RD)
• Graph improvements
• Minor improvements

Magics user Version 2.12.9 (21th June 2011)

Current user versions become 2.12.9 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3), Linux clusters LXAB & Swarm and ecgate

Magics (new) Version 2.12.9 (17th June 2011)

Current test versions become 2.12.9 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3), Linux cluster LXAB & Swarm and ecgate

• Enable the reading of MapGen files (reported by AEMET/Spain)
• Fix the blanking of numbers in High-Low plotting (reported by ZAMG/Austria)
• Correct direction of wind flags within observation plotting (reported by Meteo France)
• Re-enable scaling of PostScript output (reported by ZAMG/Austria)

Magics Version 2.12.8 (25th May 2011)

Current user and test versions become 2.12.8 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3), Linux cluster LXAB & Swarm and ecgate

• Bug fix for legend, which was introduced in 2.12.7

Magics Version 2.12.7 (24th May 2011)

Current user version becomes 2.12.7 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3), Linux cluster LXAB & Swarm and ecgate

• Various fixes for migrating MAGICS 6 users

Magics Version 2.12.7 (15th April 2011)

• Remove unnecessary warning messages

Magics Version 2.12.6 (15th April 2011)

Current test version becomes 2.12.6 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux clusters swarm and lxab

• Enabled ODB support on 64 bit linux versions
• Small internal changes

Magics Version 2.12.5 (14th March 2011)

Current test version becomes 2.12.5 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux cluster lxab

• Added Graph and Boxplot action routines to higher level Python interface
• Hard-code white background for PostScript to avoid transparent backgrounds when convert is used on new Linux platforms

Magics Version 2.12.4 (10th March 2011)

• Current test version becomes 2.12.4 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux cluster lxab
• Various fixes for migrating MAGICS 6 users:
  - legends
  - automatic titles
  - axis tick adjustment
• Bug fix for INPUT_MATRIX reading wind direction/speed from arrays
• Export tarball made available

Magics Version 2.12.3 (2nd February 2011)

• Current test version becomes 2.12.3 on OpenSuSE workstations (10.3 and 11.3) and Linux cluster lxab
• Various small fixes for migrating MAGICS 6 users

Magics Version 2.12.2 (6th January 2011)

• Current test version becomes 2.12.2 on OpenSuSE workstations and Linux cluster lxab
• Improvements in layout
• Add support for subpage dimension in enquiry functions

Magics Version 2.12.1 made default user version (7th Dec 2010)

• Current user version updated to 2.12.1 on OpenSuSE workstations + LXAB linux cluster + Ecgate
• Export tarball made available

Magics Version 2.11.6 (1st December 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.11.6 on OpenSuSE workstations, Linux clusters and Ecgate
• Various small improvements

Magics Version 2.11.5 (23rd November 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.11.5 on OpenSuSE workstations and Linux cluster lxab
• Improvements for plotting Axes
• Various small improvements

Magics Version 2.11.4 (26th October 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.11.4 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Various internal improvements - including multi-threaded contouring

Magics Version 2.10.4 (21st July 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.10.4 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Improvements in Python interface for legends

Magics Version 2.10.3 (5th July 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.10.3 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster (32-bit)
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.10.1 (18th May 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.10.1 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Fix in symbol plotting

Magics Version 2.10.0 made default user version (5th May 2010)

• Current user version updated to 2.10.0 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Export tarball made available on 7th May 2010

Magics Version 2.10.0 (28th April 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.10.0 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.9.6 (26th April 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.6 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Fix for static linking with Fortran
• Improved support for transparency in PNG, and SVG output

Magics Version 2.9.5 (22nd April 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.5 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Updates to date axis
• Updates to the new Python interface; please be aware that the way arrays and lists are set in the Python interface has changed!

Magics Version 2.9.4 (19th April 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.4 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Updates to plotting of observations
• Updates to the new Python interface

Magics Version 2.9.3 (8th March 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.3 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Updates on Geopoint interface
• Updates on new magmacro.py interface

Magics Version 2.9.2 (5th March 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.2 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Now uses Grib_API 1.9.0
• Improvements on higher level Python interface [magmacro.py]
• New action routine PIMPORT to include raster graphics into plots (for logos, etc)
• ID line is back
• Internal changes

Magics Version 2.9.1 (25th February 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.1 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• New higher level Python interface [EXPERIMENTAL]
• More options for wind plotting
• Internal changes

Magics Version 2.9.0 (14th January 2010)

• Current test version becomes 2.9.0 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Internal changes for testing

Magics Version 2.8.0 made default user version (29th October 2009)

• Current user version updated to 2.8.0 on OpenSuSE workstations + Linux cluster + Ecgate
• Export tarball made available

Magics Version 2.8.0 (21st October 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.8.0 on OpenSuSE workstations + cluster
• Various smaller fixes

Magics Version 2.7.16 (6th October 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.16 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Added support for reduced lat/long grids
• Various other fixes

Magics Version 2.7.15 (1st October 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.15 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Improvements in the graph plotting
• Various other fixes

Magics Version 2.7.13 (18th September 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.13 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Fixes for legends
• Improved satellite plotting
• Wind on rotated grids

Magics Version 2.7.12 (15th September 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.12 on OpenSuSE workstations
• Fixes for various output formats
• Changes in layout
• Now uses GRIB_API 1.8.0
• More options on InputMatrix for irregular grid

Magics Version 2.7.8 (25th March 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.8 on OpenSuse 10.3 workstations
  only
• Allow transparent logos in Cairo output (Reported by Luciana)
• Reset Postscript level to avoid transparent output in convert (Reported by Cihan)

Magics Version 2.7.7 (23rd March 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.7 on OpenSuse 10.3 / SuSE 9.1 workstations
  and Linux cluster
• Introduction of a new parameter 'subpage_mapping'. If this parameter is set 'automatic', the geographical area will be automatically adjusted to the plotted data. This option is only available for cylindrical and mercator projection. The default is 'user_defined'. Requested by Tigge team.
• Introduction of a new shading technique (parameter contour_shade_technique = 'grid_shading'). This shading technique will attach a colour to each grid point of the grid. No interpolation is performed - a filled box is drawn around each grid point.

Magics Version 2.7.6 (18th March 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.6 on SuSE 10.3 workstations only
• Removed debug information
• Additions to EFI plots
• Changes to user logo

Magics Version 2.7.5 (2nd March 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.5 on SuSE 10.3 workstations only
• Improved dot and hatch shading

Magics Version 2.7.4 (26th February 2009)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.4 on SuSE 10.3 workstations only
• Performance improvements
• Improved Cairo and KML drivers
• Changes to shading
• Smaller fixes

Magics Version 2.7.1 (20th November 2008)

• Current test version becomes 2.7.1
• Performance improvements
• Improved Taylor diagram
• Smaller fixes

Magics Version 2.6.4 (2nd December 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.6.4
• Makefile fixes

Magics Version 2.6.3 (11th November 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.6.3
• No longer uses 'dolt' for installation

Magics Version 2.6.2 (5th November 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.6.2
• Improved support for Intel compiler
• Compiler optimisations re-introduced

Magics Version 2.6.1 (28th October 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.6.1

Magics Version 2.7.0 (22nd October 2008)

• Current test version become 2.7.0
• Improved plotting of NetCDF input

Magics Version 2.6.0 (21st October 2008)

• Current user, test and emos versions become 2.6.0, compiled with the new compilers

Magics Version 2.6.0 (20th October 2008)

• Current user version becomes 2.6.0
• Built using the new compilers

Magics Version 2.5.7 (6th October 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.7
• Changes in contouring and shading, including better support for missing data
• Add rotated grid
• Smaller bugs fixes and improvements
• This release contains the first prototype of a C++ interface; please contact
  us if you want to use it.

Magics Version 2.5.5 (9th April 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.5 (on ecgate only)
• Bug fixes related to NetCDF cross-sections

Magics Version 2.5.4 (1st April 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.4 (on ecgate only)
• Fix TTF support in raster output (PNG, GIF - only ecgate was affected)

Magics Version 2.5.3 (18th March 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.3
• Bug fixes in drivers related to wind plotting

Magics Version 2.4.3 (17th March 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.4.3
• Bug fixes in drivers related to wind plotting

Magics Version 2.5.2 (11th March 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.2
• Wavegrams
• Better support for multiple POPEN calls

Magics Version 2.5.1 (10th March 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.1
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.4.2 (6th March 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.4.2

Magics Version 2.5.0 (5th March 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.0

Magics Version 2.4.1 (5th March 2008)

• Current user version becomes 2.4.1
• Adjustment of Mercator projection
• Small fix in wind plotting

Magics Version 2.4.1 (3rd March 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.4.1
• Disable by default page frame
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.5.0 (28th February 2008)

• Updated test version to 2.5.0
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.4.0 (28th February 2008)

• Current user version becomes 2.4

Magics Version 2.4.0 (27th February 2008)

• Current export version becomes 2.4.0

Magics Version 2.4.0 (27th February 2008)

• Updated new version 2.4.0
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.4.0 (26th February 2008)

• Updated new version 2.4.0
• Implemented parameters for reading wind data from arrays
• Many improvements in outputs
• Small bug fixes

Please be aware that the default scaling of PostScript
plots has changed and is now the same as all other outputs.
This might mean you see small differences in the layout.

If you need the old scaling you can set

OUTPUT_PS_SCALE to 0.95.

Magics Version 2.4.0 (19th February 2008)

• Updated new version 2.4.0
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.4.0 (14th February 2008)

• Updated new version 2.4.0
• Change to Grib API 1.4.0
• Added Mercator projection
• Many improvements in outputs
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.4.0 (12th December 2007)

• Updated new version to 2.4.0
• Small bug fixes
• Change to Grib API 1.3.1

Magics Version 2.3.1 (22nd November 2007)

• Current export version becomes 2.3.1

Magics Version 2.3.1 (20th November 2007)

• Updated test version 2.3.1
• Fixed linking problem with NetCDF library

Magics Version 2.3.1 (13th November 2007)

• Updated test version to 2.3.1
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.3 (1st November 2007)

• Current user version becomes 2.3

Magics Version 2.3 (30th October 2007)

• Updated new version 2.3.0
• Updated MagML version 3.0 - please report any problems that we
  can assist you with if any change is needed
• Small bug fixes

Magics Version 2.3 (23rd October 2007)

• Updated new version to 2.3.0
• Updated MagML to version 3.0 - please report any problems that we
  can assist you with if any change is needed
• Improvements in metgram plotting (added Wave Epsgrams)
• Bug fixes in text and multi page handling

Magics Version 2.2 (12th September 2007)

• Updated new version 2.2.0
• Improvements in metgram legend

Magics Version 2.2 (11th September 2007)

• Updated new version 2.2.0
• Improvements in text plotting
• Adding new features to EPS metgrams
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.2 (23rd August 2007)

• Updated new version to 2.2.0
• Improvements in axis and legend plotting
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.1.1 (30th July 2007)

• Updated new version 2.1.1
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.1.1 (26th July 2007)

• Updated new version 2.1.1
• Small fixes in metgrams

Magics Version 2.1.0 (26th July 2007)

• Current user and export versions become 2.1.0

Magics Version 2.1.0 (25th July 2007)

• Updated new version 2.1.0
• Improved legend
• Improved shading
• Other small fixes

Magics Version 2.1.0 (18th July 2007)

• Updated new version 2.1.0
• Improved Font handling in raster formats (GIF,PNG)
• Small fixes

Magics Version 2.1.0 (17th July 2007)

• Updated new version 2.1.0
• Improved Polyline plotting (PLINE)
• Improved positional layout
• Many smaller improvements

Magics Version 2.1.0 (12th July 2007)

• Updated new version to 2.1.0
• Major revision of MagML (version 2.0 now)
• Polyline plotting (PLINE)
• Many smaller improvements (i.e. memory management)

Magics Version 2.0.1 (10th July 2007)

• Current user version becomes 2.0.1

Magics Version 2.0.1 (8th May 2007)

• Updated new version 2.0.1
• Small bug fixes in metgrams
• Updated emos version from 1.1 to 2.01

Magics Version 2.0.1 (19th April 2007)

• Updated new version 2.0.1
• Fixed bug in symbol plotting

Magics Version 2.0.1 (17th April 2007)

• Export version updated to 2.0.1

Magics Version 2.0.1 (16th April 2007)

• Updated new version to 2.0.1
• Added new parameter for EPS metgrams

Magics Version 2.0.0 (28th March 2007)

• Current user version becomes 2.0.0

Magics Version 2.0.0 (27th March 2007)

• Updated test version 2.0.0
• Minor bug fixes

Magics Version 2.0.0 (20th March 2007)

• Updated test version 2.0.0
• Additional resolutions of coastlines to improve performance
• Bug fixes in PostScript and PNG & GIF output
• Minor bug fixes

Magics Version 2.0.0 (13th March 2007)

• Updated test version to 2.0.0
• New text and title handling
• Minor bug fixes (installation, output drivers, axis labels)

Magics Version 1.3.9 (18th January 2007)

• Updated test version to 1.3.9
• Minor bug fixes in axis labels

Magics Version 1.3.8 (12th January 2007)

• Updated test version to 1.3.8
• Minor bug fixes (label sizes)

Magics Version 1.3.7 (18th December 2006)

• Updated test version to 1.3.7
• Regular Gaussian Grid now supported
• Minor bug fixes

Magics Version 1.3.4 (6th December 2006)

• Updated test version to 1.3.4
• Minor bug fixes

Magics Version 1.3.3 (30th November 2006)

• Updated test version to 1.3.3
• Improvements in boxplots
• Improvements in axis
• Bug fixes

Magics Version 1.3.2 (20th November 2006)

• Updated test version to 1.3.2
• Improvements in boxplots
• Improvements in axis
• Bug fixes

Magics Version 1.3.1 (6th November 2006)

• Updated test version to 1.3.1
• Y axis title repositioning
• Fix in GRAPH_LINE

Magics Version 1.3 (31st October 2006)

• Current user version becomes 1.3

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Landmarks Before Magics Version 1.3

Magics Version 0.1 (16th July 2004)

• Basic functionality working:
• contouring (including basic labels, highs/lows)
• coastlines (including map gridlines and labels)
• grib loading
• netcdf loading
• user titles
• basic layout
• cylindrical and stereographic projection

Magics Version 0.2 (24th September 2004)

• Contouring: solid and marker shading
• Contouring: grid value plotting
• Contouring: contour highlights
• Grib: multi-field data handling
• Page ID line

Magics Version 0.3 (10th November 2004)

• Stereographic projection
• ODB access / data plotting
• Automatic titles
• Automatic selection of contour method and parameters

Magics Version 0.4 (26th January 2005)

• SVG output (preliminary)
• XML input ('MagML') (preliminary)
• Legends (preliminary)

Magics Version 0.5 (15th March 2005)

• Preliminary GIF drivers
• Hatch shading added
• Line styles (DASH/DOT)
• Automatic coastline resolution selection

Magics Version 0.5.1 (19th April 2005)

• Multiple output device support
• Multi-file and animated GIF output

Magics Version 0.6 (24th May 2005)

• 64bit version on the cluster

Magics Version 0.7 (8th August 2005)

• Observation plotting (the fundamental features are present)|
• Improved symbol plotting using XML symbol descriptions

Magics Version 0.8 (11th November 2005)

• Prelimary support of graph plotting
• Prelimary support of image plotting
• PDF output

Magics Version 1.0 (30th November 2006)

• Version 1.0 installed at ECMWF

Magics Version 1.1 (4th April 2006)

• Cluster 32 & 64 bit versions released
• EPSgram on the web is now using Magics operationally
• Cross sections taken from NetCDF data can now be visualised

Magics Version 1.2 (6th July 2006)

• C interface added

Magics Version 1.2 (25th July 2006)

• New coastline database with lakes and rivers

Magics Version 1.3 (4th October 2006)

• Support for boxplots with new action routine PBOXPLOT
• Support for geographical areas larger than 360 degrees of longitude

Magics Version 1.3 (30th October 2006)

• First support for Taylor Diagrams with new action routine PTAYLOR
• Single precision support added

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