From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 15 10:00:00 2019 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:00:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <0a4490e4-7410-e730-44e8-dc93586ec948@mindworkshop.com> Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *?PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4 * 2. *?GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4*****(second notification******)*** * 3. **?Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 *****(additional notification******)*** 4. *****?New UK Server **************(second notification******)**** ***** 5. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *If you build animations for web pages or social media, don't miss this week's release of PNG MNG Construction Set. * PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4 PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds WebP support to PNG MNG Construction Set ? which changes everything. PNG MNG Construction Set can open and save WebP graphics and animations. Because WebP files can be used directly in web pages and other on-line media, you can now create web animations with full 24-bit color, millisecond timing and true alpha transparency, transcending the limitations of traditional GIF animations. It also supports both lossless and user-definable lossy compression ? the latter being comparable to what JPEG does ? to allow you to squeeze your animations into very small files if you need to. You can add WebP files to your web pages using the same coding as would be used for GIF animations. In that the user interface and functionality of PNG MNG Construction Set is pretty much identical to that of GIF Construction Set, current users of GIF Construction Set can be up to speed with the state of the art in web page animation in substantially less time than it's taken you to read this. WebP animations totally blew us away when we started using them ? you need to experience them as well. There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog . (To reduce unnecessary wear on the Help buttons in PNG MNG Construction Set ? and more to the point, to save you digging through its manual ? we hasten to note that you can create WebP documents from your new or existing MNG animations by selecting Save As from the File menu, and then Selecting WebP as the file type in the Save As window that opens.) * Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard, and various other functions in PNG MNG Construction Set that open still graphics. * Adds *optional paint applications* to the Paint buttons in PNG MNG Construction Set. Hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button to have your graphic opened in Alpha Paint if it has alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or the Graphic Workshop e-Paint UltraLight if it doesn't. See the discussion of Paint in the Reference document of PNG MNG Construction Set's manual for more about this feature. It's all in the second 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. * 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. Upgrades If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 8, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 9 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Click on the huge blue button below. GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4 ***(second notification)*** 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 . * 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. 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. Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 ***(additional 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 . 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. 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. New UK Server ***(second notification)*** 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 two weekends ago. 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. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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