ReadMe for the Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1

Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1, which fixes or addresses a variety of issues discovered by customers and by Autodesk's internal testing team.

This Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this service pack. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you apply the service pack to your product. For your reference, you should save this Readme to your hard drive or print a copy.

This Readme includes the following topics:

Who Should Install the Service Pack?

This service pack is for the English-language versions (locked and unlocked) of Autodesk Raster Design 2005 running on English-language and non-English-language operating systems.

If you have been experiencing product performance problems, they may have been fixed with this service pack. For more information on the specific fixes, see New Features in Service Pack 1.

Locked and Unlocked Service Packs

The following Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1 version is available on the Autodesk website:

  • ARD2005_SP1.exe

This single service pack can be applied to any English-language locked or unlocked version of Autodesk Raster Design 2005.

General Information

  • During the installation of this update, you may be prompted for the original installation CD or network image.
  • Download progress may not be indicated during the update.

Important: You cannot run an automatic uninstall to remove this service pack. All files are affected by the installation of this service pack. To restore your version of Autodesk Raster Design 2005 to its pre–service pack state, uninstall Autodesk Raster Design 2005 and reinstall it.

New Features in Service Pack 1

This service pack fixes over 100 issues in Autodesk Raster Design 2005. Several of the prominent fixes are described in the following list.

  • Installs & Licensing
    • Loading Land Development Desktop 2005 or Map 3D 2005 does not automatically load Raster Design 2005.
    • Silent deployments installed to clients can now be patched or repaired
  • File formats
    • JPEG CMYK formats can be inserted
    • FLC images can be inserted
    • Hand edited DEM files with valid USGS data can be loaded
    • Improved PICT image loading support
    • DEM files inserted with world files now scale correctly
  • Interoperability
    • Crashes no longer occur when running Raster Design on Civil or Map and displaying surfaces
  • REM
    • Editing REM regions converted to images no longer crashes
  • Rubbersheet
    • Rubbersheeting of bitonal images no longer corrupts the image
  • Saving
    • Fewer problems occur when saving images after a crop operation
    • Edited images are prompted for saving when the drawing is closed
    • Cropped CALS files can be saved
    • CALS files can be read into regular AutoCAD
  • Merging
    • Improved performance for bitonal and color image merging
  • Display
    • Bitonal images show less fading and distorting
    • Improved display speed during pans and zooms
    • Improved bitonal image display quality when zoomed out in high-quality mode
    • Display artifacts between tiled images are resolved
    • Proper transparency color is assigned
  • Image Insertion
    • SID and ECW files can have affine coordinate transformation performed during insertion
    • Failures due to inappropriate coordinate transformations are better handled
  • Despeckle
    • On-screen picking of speckle sizes is more reliable
    • Improved performance with Despeckle
  • Deskew
    • Images inserted with rotation, then deskewed, now have correct rotation
    • Deskew no longer distorts image
  • Stability
    • Application is less likely to crash
  • Editing
    • Non-ortho crop on Bitonal images no longer distorts data.
    • Rub circle & arc are working properly
  • Options
    • Memory allocation is properly reported in the Options dialog.

New Windows Command-Line Switches

The new Windows command-line switches built into this service pack are as follows:

  • /e - Extracts the MSP file from the service pack executable.
  • /p - Extracts a patch list from the service pack executable.
  • /q - Suppresses the completion message after the service pack is applied. This is useful if you use a script or batch file to apply the service pack to multiple computers.

Instructions about how to use the /e and /p command-line switches are included in the procedures that follow.

Applying This Service Pack to a Stand-Alone Installation

  1. Download the service pack and save it to any folder.
  2. Insert the Autodesk Raster Design 2005 CD into your CD drive.
  3. Navigate to the folder where you saved the service pack.
  4. Double-click the executable file for the service pack to install it.

Applying This Service Pack to an Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Network Administrative Image

The following two methods of distributing Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1 apply only to administrative images created with the Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Network Installation wizard. After you complete these procedures, any new deployments of Autodesk Raster Design 2005 will have the service pack applied to them automatically.

NOTE: In both of the following procedures, you must extract the MSP (Microsoft Patch) file from the service pack file that you download. To extract the MSP file from the executable, use the /e (extract) switch.

To add Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1 to a new administrative image

  1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download ARD2005_SP1.exe to your local computer.
  2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information, and then click OK.

<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch name.msp>

  1. On the computer where you installed the Network Installation wizard patch, on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Network Installation Wizard.
  2. In the Network Installation wizard, on the Welcome page, select Create an Administrative Image, then click Next.
  3. On the Create Administrative Image page, in the Select Autodesk Installer (MSI) File box, enter the path to ard42.msi, the MSI file you use as the basis for your administrative image. This file is found on your product CD-ROM, in CDROM:\BIN\Installer.
  4. In the Administrative Image Location box, enter an existing shared network location where you want to create an administrative image, or click Browse to navigate to a location. Users install Autodesk Raster Design from this location.
  5. Select the option Apply a Patch (Service Pack) to This Image.
  6. In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp). You can also Browse to locate the MSP file.
  7. Click next, and follow the instructions in the Network Installation wizard to complete the creation of the patched administrative image.

To apply Autodesk Raster Design 2005 Service Pack 1 to an existing administrative image

  1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download ARD2005_SP1.exe to your local computer.
  2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information, and then click OK.

<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch name.msp>

  1. On the computer where you installed the Network Installation wizard patch, on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Network Installation Wizard.
  2. In the Network Installation wizard, on the Welcome page, select Modify an Administrative Image, then click Next.
  3. On the Modify Administrative Image page, in the Select an MSI File box, select the existing Autodesk installer file (MSI) from the shared network location that contains the administrative image you want to modify. Users install Autodesk Raster Design from this location.
  4. Select the option Apply a Patch (Service Pack) to This Image.
  5. In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp). You can also Browse to locate the MSP file.
  6. Click Next, and follow the instructions in the Network Installation wizard to complete the deployment of this service pack.

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