[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. * Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7
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2. * Pagan Daybook 9 Revision 2 *****(second notification)*** *
3. ** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 11
*****(********additional** notification)***
4. * PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 3****(********additional**
notification)* * *
5. **Security Vulnerabilities and Software Updates ****— ****Read
This!****
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6. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details *
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Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7
Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds Alpha Shadows — have your graphics cast realistic soft
shadows as alpha objects that blend with whatever your pictures
appear over. See the discussion of alpha shadows in the Alpha
Paint Reference document for more about how they work.
* Fixes several bugs in the Transform filters — Flip, Rotate and
Resize — that could make selected elements disappear under some
builds of Windows. Needless to say, we frown on them doing this.
* Adds an option to the Rectangle Selection tool to allow it to
copy selected areas, rather than cutting them. Hold down the
Shift key when you click to dismiss the tool.
* Fixes a bug in the Paste menu item that caused it to enable and
disable at inappropriate moments.
* Fixes a bug in the Paste function that saw it pasting paletted
images with wildly incorrect colors under some builds of Windows.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Pagan Daybook 9 Revision 2***(second notification)***
Pagan Daybook 9 has been updated. This release:
* Updates the *JPEG functionality* in Pagan Daybook to be
blindingly, shockingly *fast*... and possibly violate a few laws
of physics. This seriously speeds up the graphic themes in Pagan
Daybook.
The new JPEG reader also addresses a number of potential
*security holes* which could have allowed a maliciously-crafted
JPG file to execute arbitrary code and compromise a computer
running previous releases of Pagan Daybook.
We urge everyone running Pagan Daybook to update to this release
really, really soon — some time yesterday would be ideal.
If you're running a version of Pagan Daybook *older than version
9*, please see the *Upgrades***section, below.
* Updates the Pagan Daybook *image handling libraries* with our
new anti-tampering logic to make them more secure and resistant
to cyber-cretins.
* Adds several new themes... based on cool paintings. Check out
Love Among the Ruins, from the picture by Edward Coley
Burne-Jones, and Three Graces, from the picture by Sandro
Botticelli.
* Fixes some bugs and cosmetic issues in a number of the interface
windows around the application.
* Improves the texture generators used to create theme backgrounds.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook
8, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 9 for *half the current
new-user price*.
*Older software: *If you're running a registered older version of
Pagan Daybook — Pagan Daybook 4 or better — we'd like to urge you in
strongest possible terms to upgrade to version 9, so the security
holes in the old JPEG reader don't risk letting the slime of the
Internet access your computer.
For the duration of this update cycle — for the next week, at least
— we invite you to*upgrade to Pagan Daybook 9* for *half price*,
even if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer valid for your
version.
Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being applicable to
version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page — your Pagan Daybook upgrade
order will be accepted.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 11***(additional
notification)***
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Improves the performance of the View mode high-speed window
update logic even more, so it's quicker than ever. No physical
laws are being broken by Graphic Workshop, but a few of the ones
that only scientists understand might be getting bent on occasion.
* It has come to our attention that some Windows screen drivers
choked on the new high-speed View window in Graphic Workshop
when they were asked to display really large pictures. When this
happened, the View window displayed a blank screen. While we
can't actually fix this problem — as it's not part of Graphic
Workshop per se — we have built a work-around for it. If the
high-speed display logic gets into trouble, it now automatically
falls back to the old compatible update mode, which, while
slower, isn't affected by this issue.
* Under some builds of Windows, the Graphic Workshop View window
and Graphic Workshop itself would disappear for an instant when
the View window closed. This was particularly noticeable for
systems running Windows Aero themes... which, yes, is most of
them. Note the use of the past tense in this description — it's
history.
* The View mode Zoom function now tracks the center of the image
being displayed as you zoom in or out, which helps cut down on
the need to mouse around as you change magnification levels.
* Updates the JPEG library for all the Graphic Workshop ancillary
applications to use higher-quality image reading. The exact
nature of this improvement is touched on in the next paragraph.
Be strong.
* Allows the LIB JPEG Turbo DCT to be selected. Okay... grab
something solid. A discrete cosine transform, or DCT, is the
arithmetic underpinning of JPEG compression, and if your eyes
just glazed over having read the foregoing sentence, be
comforted in knowing that this will be last time the subject
will come up. The blazingly fast LIB JPEG Turbo JPEG reader
introduced in the previous update to Graphic Workshop allows for
two DCT options. The fast one is fast and the not quite as fast
one is more accurate, and results in somewhat more faithful
imaging. In practical terms, we couldn't measure the speed
difference in house, and for this reason, Graphic Workshop
defaults to using the more accurate DCT option. If you really
want to get every extra microsecond out of the LIB JPEG Turbo
processor – and especially if you're sitting in front of a
fairly slow computer – you can speed up JPEG reads a bit by
enabling the Turbo JPG Fast DCT option in Setup.
* Fixes a bug in the Filters window Resize pane that occasionally
estimated the size of a resized image incorrectly, depending on
how the rounding errors fell.
* Fixes a bug in the Zoom window that caused it to fall into
optimum view mode if you tried to zoom in past 1600 percent in
some circumstances. Nothing bad happened, but it was a bit weird.
* Fixes a bug in the Carbon Adjusted theme that caused it to
miscalculate the vertical size of the a browser file pane by one
pixel, and in so doing leave one row of blank thumbnails. In
that Carbon Adjusted was specifically written to avoid wasting
screen real estate like this, it was an issue.
* Updates the documentation.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current new-user price*.
*Older software: *If you're running a registered older version of
Graphic Workshop — Graphic Workshop 4 or better — we'd like to urge
you in strongest possible terms to upgrade to version 9, so the
security holes in the old JPEG reader don't risk letting the slime
of the Internet access your computer. (See the fourth section of
this posting for more about JPEG vulnerabilities.)
For the duration of this update cycle — for the next week, at least
— we invite you to*upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9* for
*half price*, even if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer
valid for your version.
Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being applicable to
version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page — your Graphic Workshop
upgrade order will be accepted.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 3(additional notification)
PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been updated. This release:
* Updates the *JPEG functionality* in PNG MNG Construction Set to
be blindingly, shockingly *fast*... and possibly violate a few
laws of physics.
The new JPEG reader also addresses a number of potential
*security holes* which could have allowed a maliciously-crafted
JPG file to execute arbitrary code and compromise a computer
running previous releases of PNG MNG Construction Set.
We urge everyone running PNG MNG Construction Set to update to
this release really, really soon — some time yesterday would be
ideal.
If you're running a version of PNG MNG Construction Set *older
than version 9*, please see the *Upgrades***section, below.
* Updates the PNG MNG Construction Set *image handling libraries*
with our new anti-tampering logic to make them more secure and
resistant to cyber-cretins.
* Nails a bug that could cause the thumbnails in PNG MNG
Construction Set's document windows to be created incorrectly
when an animation was generated by Animation Wizard.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 8, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction
Set 9 for *half the current new-user price*.
*Older software: *If you're running a registered older version of
PNG MNG Construction Set — PNG MNG Construction Set 4 or better —
we'd like to urge you in strongest possible terms to upgrade to
version 9, so the security holes in the old JPEG reader don't risk
letting the slime of the Internet access your computer.
For the duration of this update cycle — for the next week, at least
— we invite you to*upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 9* for *half
price*, even if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer valid
for your version.
Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being applicable to
version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page — your PNG MNG Construction
Set upgrade order will be accepted.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Software Vulnerabilities and Security Updates **— ****Read This!**
From time to time, we release updates to Alchemy Mindworks'
software to address security issues. We're in the midst of doing so
now.
These things can seem a bit scary. To help explain what they entail,
we've added a post to our blog that gets into them in detail. No
long words or funny math appear therein... we promise.
We urge all our users to click on the big blue button below and
check it out.
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/gif-construction-set/security-issues-and-software-vulnerabilities/>
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