CARIS Paper Chart Composer 2.1

CARIS Paper Chart Composer is a professional cartographic application for creating, editing, and publishing paper nautical charts. Designed for hydrographic offices and chart producers, it streamlines production by combining powerful cartographic tools with standards-compliant workflows. The software supports IHO S-4 guidance and INT1 symbology, helping ensure charts are accurate, consistent, and ready for print or print-on-demand distribution. When used with a shared production database, it enables efficient maintenance and alignment of paper charts with related digital products.

Key capabilities:

• Standards-based compilation with IHO S-4 and INT1 symbolization
• Tools for chart layout, insets, graticules, marginalia, compass roses, and scale bars
• Assisted cartographic finishing for soundings, contours, labels, and feature placement
• Quality control checks and rule-based validation to reduce errors
• Template-driven production and reusable styles for consistent presentation
• Support for Notices to Mariners updates and efficient maintenance workflows
• Integration with CARIS production environments to align paper and electronic chart products
• Print-ready output, including color separations and common formats such as PDF and TIFF

Ideal for: national hydrographic offices, defense and maritime agencies, port authorities, and commercial chart publishers seeking reliable, standards-compliant paper chart production.

CARIS Paper Chart Composer is developed by CARIS. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. The names of program executable files are caris_paper_chart_composer.exe, paperchartcomposeru.exe.

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