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Contents:
1. * GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4
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2. ** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 *****(second
notification******)***
3. * Animation Workshop 9 Revision 2
*******(*****************additional *****notification)***** *
4. * Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 ******(additional notification)*****
5. ***** New UK Server
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GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4
GIF Construction Set Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds an Export to WebP option to the GIF Construction Set File
menu. Wait 'til you see what this puppy can do.
The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported by the
current versions of all the major web browsers, it replaces GIF
with a twenty-first century animation standard. It allows for
true-color imaging, alpha transparency, millisecond-resolution
timing and optional lossy compression for those occasions when
your animations just get out of control and you really need them
to be smaller.
Best of all, WebP animations can be added to a web page using
the same HTML coding as would be the case for a GIF file.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
* Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard, and various
other functions in GIF Construction Set that open still graphics.
* Adds optional alpha image masking to Animation Wizard, so you
can import graphics with full alpha transparency and not have
their backgrounds look like salad.
* Fixes several bugs in the document window Drag 'n Drop
functionality.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set 8, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
9 for *half the current new-user price*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 ***(second
notification)***
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds *WebP support* — Graphic Workshop can now open and write to
.webp graphics. Should you be unfamiliar with WebP, it's a
graphic and animation document format developed by Google. It
supplants JPEG, PNG and GIF on the web, enjoying better image
quality, compression, color depth and timing accuracy. It's
supported by the current releases of all the major web browsers.
It looks amazing in on-line content, such as web pages and
social media.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
This one's cool enough to shatter penguins.
There's an overview of WebP in the Formats document of Graphic
Workshop's manual. WebP is available in all the functionality of
Graphic Workshop that opens, views, writes and processes graphic
files.
* Adds *WebP support* to the *e-Paint UltraLight*, *Presentation
Wizard UltraLight*, *GWS Camera* screen capture and *Montage*
applications that install with Graphic Workshop.
* Adds *optional paint applications* to the browser right-click
Paint and Paint and Save As items, and to the Paint item in the
File menu of the View window. Hold down the Ctrl key when you
select one of these options to have your graphic opened in Alpha
Paint if it has alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or e-Paint
UltraLight if it doesn't. See the discussion of Paint in the
Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about
this feature. It's all in the first blue box.
We hasten to add that Alpha Paint may misbehave in this capacity
under some versions of Windows — it's fixed in the next release
of Alpha Paint.
* Updates the *Save As* window for Graphic Workshop's *View *mode
to handle file type changes more intuitively.
* Fixes a bug in the file history list of the *GWS Camera* screen
capture.
* Addresses a number of issues in the Archive Manager associations
window.
* Fixes several bugs in *Icon Editor UltraLight* 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 Icon Editor UltraLight 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 Icon Editor UltraLight Paste menu item that
caused it to enable and disable at inappropriate moments.
* Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste function that
saw it pasting paletted images with wildly incorrect colors
under some builds of Windows.
* Fixes a bug in the Graphic Workshop *animated GIF* view window
that caused the application to vanish momentarily when the
window closed... under some builds of Windows or in a room with
one or more large flightless birds. Mostly the former.
* 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*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Animation Workshop 9 Revision 2***(additional notification)***
Animation Workshop 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds *WebP support* — Animation Workshop can now export to .webp
animations. Should you be unfamiliar with .webp, it's a graphic
and animation document format developed by Google. It supplants
GIF animations, enjoying better compression, color depth and
timing accuracy. It's supported by the current releases of all
the major web browsers. It looks amazing in web pages.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
This one's cool enough to shatter penguins.
* Updates the *JPEG functionality* in Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop.
We urge everyone running Animation Workshop to update to this
release really, really soon — some time yesterday would be ideal.
If you're running a version of Animation Workshop *older than
version 9*, please see the *Upgrades***section, below.
* Updates the Animation Workshop *image handling libraries* with
our new anti-tampering logic to make them more secure and
resistant to cyber-cretins.
* Updates the rendering engine.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 8, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 9 for
*half the current new-user price*.
*Older software: *If you're running a registered older version of
Animation Workshop — Animation 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.
For the duration of this update cycle — for the next week, at least
— we invite you to*upgrade to Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop
upgrade order will be accepted.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 ***(additional notification)***
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>
New UK Server
Our server in the United Kingdom recently changed hosting companies.
For the most part, you'll probably never notice its new digs even if
you use it regularly to download our software installers.
You can download installers from our UK server by clicking on the
last of the red DOWNLOAD buttons at our various software pages —
this will be DOWNLOAD 2 or DOWNLOAD 3, depending on where you are.
All this having been said, there appears to have been a propagation
issue with the installer for the new Graphic Workshop Professional 9
release last weekend. If you downloaded what purported to be the
revision 12 software from our UK server and found yourself looking
at revision 11, please accept our apology.
The UK server now has the correct release — we invite you to
download it again if needs be.
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