SuperEdit is a standalone editor for Tessel Composite Documents (TCD). It offers advanced functions to edit full size raster images. SuperEdit shares editing capabilities with CADRaster and can be used by customers that do not use AutoCAD. Additionally SuperEdit provides multi-layered fully featured structure for creating and editing of vector entities using tools similar to other popular drafting systems.

SuperEdit is excellent tool to correct defects introduced by the source material or scanning process. After that you can use scanned images as background to new designs, vectorize image contents or modify image to bring documents up to date.

SuperEdit is currently available in English, German, Czech, Polish language versions. Finnish versions will be translated soon. Read the news section and se_read.me if you want to know more about new features in this version.

Since version 2.20 SuperEdit is available in two versions: PRO and LTX

The technology of Composite Documents designed and developed by Tessel Systems is a very comfortable and useful way of simultaneous presentation of many raster and vector documents as a one document.

SuperEdit fully supports all advantages of TCD format, additionally providing other unique and highly professional tools for presentation and editing of rasters and vectors. We can enumerate here as follows:

• magnifying glass which gives a quick automatic local zoom around the area of interest
• selective snap to raster that recognizes centerline, corner, intersection, line end, edge of raster area and circular cadastral marks
• selective snap to vector that recognizes cross, insertion point, center, midpoint, end and the nearest point of vector entity
• displaying geographical coordinates in five most popular geographical mappings:

- Direct mapping
- Gauss-Krüger P42
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- Deutsche Heeresgitter
- Generic Transverse Mercator
• inserting vectors: DWG, DXF and HPGL to raster background
• and many others like grid, snap to grid, ortho snap ...

We know that for engineers working with raster documents the most important thing is to have good and efficient editing tools. In our opinion raster tools offered in SuperEdit should satisfy your requirements.

SuperEdit provides:

• raster editing commands for raster images include move, crop, clear rectangle and polygon, align, rotate and resize independently in X & Y directions
• multiple UNDO/REDO of raster editing operations
• multi-point calibration with full graphical and numerical session control
• cut/copy/paste editing of raster images
• tools for viewing and editing raster transparency
• interactive raster trace function giving optimized polylines with automatic line width recognition
• raster split function to convert very large raster images to manageable composite documents

SuperEdit can editing images stored in fourteen different raster formats like TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, CALS, CIT ...

Now, all the editing operations work much faster thanks to new raster editing library added to 2.10 version.

SuperEdit is integrated with TSL CALIBRATOR that lets you use any number of arbitrarily located reference points with known coordinates in order to rectify scanned images. CALIBRATOR is so effective and simple to use that we recommend it not only for mapping projects but also for preparation of scanned engineering drawings. It has been field-tested in projects involving thousands of scanned maps and drawings, always with excellent results. Whenever you need better precision for your hybrid raster-vector projects, simply use SuperEdit with CALIBRATOR - the tool of choice for preparation of your scanned drawings.

CALIBRATOR supports following transformation models:

• Isotropic linear (Helmert) model - requires at least two correction vectors,
• Anisotropic linear (affine) model - requires at least three correction vectors,
• Bilinear model - requires at least four correction vectors,
• Biquadratic model - requires at least nine correction vectors,
• Bicubic model - requires at least 16 correction vectors.

Support for vector drawings in SuperEdit includes following features:

• multiple Tessel Vector Document (TVD) accessible in TCD documents
• wide set of basic vector entities includes: point, segment, rectangle, circle, circular arc, ellipse, polygon, polyline, text and predefined complex entities
• vector editing commands include move, rotate and resize independently in X & Y directions
• blocks and complexes associating together the basic entities
• cut/copy/paste editing of vector entities
• import and export in DXF format compatible with AutoCAD R13 and R14

New functions in version 2.7 are:

• Windows Vista compatibility
• Relative paths to icons in print templates
• Measure distance tool
• Import drawings with invisible layers
• Fit document in print template
• TCD and CALS File Viewers

Demo version of SuperEdit 2.7 is available for download here

USB hardware locks working with SuperEdit and Sentinel Driver version 7.2.1 stopped responding on 13 March 2006.

In such situation it is needed to install Sentinel Driver version 7.2.2

Official statement form SafeNet is available here

Sentinel Driver 7.2.2 is available here

SuperEdit Manual is available online as a set of HTML pages.

To open it click here

New functions in version 2.6 are:

• Import symbols (i.e. layers, blocks, styles, and patterns) from predefined TVD vector drawing,
• Default vector tools defined per layer. When a new vector object is created, it inherits vector tools defined for the layer it is created on,
• Measure distance command,
• Autoload geographical transformation. Geographical transformation that is saved in a drawing can be loaded while the drawing has been opened,
• Macros in printing template. The printing template may contain special text macros that SuperEdit interprets while printing documents or displaying a print preview,
• Mouse wheel support. As result you can scroll window vertically (default) and horizontally (with Shift key pressed). The capability is active during actions like drawing or zooming,
• Decimal precision in presentation of calibration results can be set by user,
• GeoTIFF file format with JPEG compression,
• Macro to calibrate without calibration model,
• and extended API functionality.

SuperEdit 2.6 is available for download here

New functions has been released in version 2.4 including:

• TFMO to handle rooms, spaces and controll drawing's topology
• New family of geographic transformations based on stereographic projection (GOS - Generic Oblique Stereographic)
• Automatic raster map recalibration between coordinate systems
• and more new features.

The newest version of SuperEdit - 2.30 is fully compatible with Windows XP.

This release includes both LTX and PRO versions.

Since version 2.21 SuperEdit is accessible as: PRO or LTX. It gives you a better choice between price and functionality, which you need.

To meet user requirements we have added an interface to import a list of points to vector document from text file. This is a very flexible tool supporting various delimiters and formats.

Using this format any information about used Geographical Mapping can be saved in raster image and quickly restored by next use or on another machine.

SuperEdit 2.21 fully supports this very popular Internet graphics format.