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Release Notes Version 4.4
Part of HEAsoft 6.1 - July 2006

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• Changes in version 4.4
• New options
• Previous releases

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Changes in version 4.4

• Added Intel Mac and 64-bit Linux support
• Improved text rendering in PostScript output
• Grid command output more closely matches pre-4.2 appearance (e.g. no abbrevation of grid line labels)
• Parameter file (ximage.par) replaces functionality of ~/defaults.def file
• Changed rotated region convention to match that of ds9
• Improved ra_dec_to_pixel command to accept all common RA/Dec formats
• Suzaku PSF approximation added

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New options

• grid
  • abbrev - Abbreviate grid line labels
  • csize - Set character size of grid line labels

• coord
  • equinox - Specify equinox of input sky coordinates

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Previous releases

• Release Notes 4.3.1
• Release Notes 4.3
• Release Notes 4.2.1
• Release Notes 4.2
• Release Notes 4.1
• Release Notes 4.0
• Release Notes 3.01
• Release Notes 3.0

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