Download Windows

Generally our installer is platform independent and will allow you to install CNG either on Windows, Linux or Mac using the same installer. As CNG is a Java application, however, you will need to make sure you have Oracle-Java Version 7 or above installed on your machine. Most likely this should already be the case.

Download CompendiumNG 2.1.4

NOTE: We are looking forward to hear back from you about any issues and your experience with the installer and CNG in our forum. Your feedback will be valuable towards our development leading up to a first stable release, which will be version 2.2.

Windows specific instructions:

Double click on the ‘jar’ file after download should start the installer.
On Windows 7+ make sure to install CNG outside of the ‘Program Files’ directory to avoid any potential permission related problems.
Also you need to have full administration rights for a correct installation. Please also do a first run of CNG while still having full admin rights so that all folders and sub-folders and files are set up correctly.
The installer was tested on Windows10. Unfortunately no start menu icon or desktop icon are created. However, you can start CNG by double clicking the CompendiumNG.bat file.

Summary of changes in the 2.1.4 release from a user perspective:

CompendiumNG has some major changes from the previous version. Please see the full list of changes for 2.1.1. for what we have done as part of our earlier prerelease in 2013. The current verion includes all these changes and in addition uses the starndard set of icons again. It also now follows standards for panning and zooming freequently used by other software. Please note that version 2.1.4 now requires Java version 7 to run the installer and the software.
For a list of all changes please also see our full list of changes for 2.1.4. and

Cutting edge (current development version):

Alternatively you are also welcome to test our recent development version.