A currently selected polygon in an area layer can be used as the boundary for subsequent selections. For example, if you select a particular census tract in a tract layer, you can subsequently select all streets that lie inside or outside the selected tract. Support for user-defined projection systems is provided on an experimental basis. Features in area layers can now be filled with hatched and crosshatched patterns in addition to solid colors. You can control the density and angle of the new fill patterns.
Additional fonts are now available for use as symbols for point layers.
Labels for point and area layers can now optionally include a leader line from the label text to the point or to the centroid of the area. Values from an attribute data set can now be used to supply label text. The font style, size, and color settings that you specify in the GIS Labels window are now retained as the defaults the next time you open that window in the current session. Labels applied to the map can be now be attached to the window so that they do not move when you zoom or pan the map. When you set the default positions for labels for point and area layers, any of the possible placements that you do not want used can be excluded.