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Longitude-latitude gridlines and continental outlines may be drawn on the map, and the resulting image may be saved to disk in GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, PS or SVG form.</p> <p>G.Projector is a cross-platform application that runs on Macintosh, Windows, Linux and other desktop computers. It requires that your computer have a <b>Java 11</b> (or later version) runtime environment installed.</p> <p style="text-align:center;border:dotted red 1px;background:#ffd;padding:4px"> The current version of G.Projector is 3.4.0, released 2024-11-09.</p> <h4>Get G.Projector</h4> <ul> <li><b><a href="download/">Download G.Projector</a></b></li> </ul> <p>Additional CNO/CNOB overlay files compatible with G.Projector are available from the Panoply software collection of <a href="https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/overlays/">optional "outline overlays"</a>. G.Projector also understands many SHP shapefiles and can use them for overlays. </p> <h4>Documentation and Credits</h4> <ul> <li><a href="help/">User's Guide</a> <li><a href="help/projections/">List of Map Projections</a></li> <li><a href="help/credits.html">Credits and Acknowledgments</a></li> <li><a href="help/references.html">References</a></li> <li><a href="changelog/">Changelog</a></li> </ul> <h4>Contact</h4> <p>If you would like to report a bug in G.Projector, please contact the author, <a href="https://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/rschmunk.html">Dr. Robert B. 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