From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 29 10:35:59 2019 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:35:59 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <4bcc4085-b9fc-b0db-7dfd-5d20724dcf57@mindworkshop.com> Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 14 **(new this weekend)** * 2. *?Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 9*******(second notification******)*** * * * 3. *?PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4 ******(additional notification******)*** * * 4. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *** Click on the book and you're history!*** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 14 ***(new this weekend)*** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release: * Updates the *WebP support* for Graphic Workshop. Several format issues in the initial release have been addressed, and the WebP reader's performance has been improved for Graphic Workshop and all the ancillary applications that support WebP. * Updates Graphic Workshop so it will appear in the Windows Explorer or File Explorer *Open With* window for most of the file types it knows how to open. * Adds a trap to*GWS Camera* to prevent multiple instances of the screen capture from running concurrently... which was confusing. * Fixes a bug that could cause the *Help* in the *Filters* and *Textures* windows to fail to open under some builds of Windows and with some web browsers. * Improves the *Prompt for Filename* option of the GWS Camera screen capture. * Adds controls to the*e-Paint UltraLight* and *Montage UltraLight* Save As Windows to allow the WebP and JPEG write parameters to be adjusted when you save a document. * 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. Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 8 ***(second notification)*** Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds WebP support ? create, open and edit leading-edge WebP web page graphics. The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported by the current versions of all the major web browsers, it replaces PNG and JPEG with a twenty-first century graphics standard. It allows for true-color imaging, alpha transparency and optional lossy compression for those occasions when you really need your graphic files to be smaller. Best of all, WebP graphics can be added to a web page using the same HTML coding as would be the case for a JPG file. There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog . * Fixes a bug that caused Alpha Paint to misbehave when it was called from another application under some builds of Windows. This resolves the issue of it failing to open when it was summoned by holding down the Ctrl key and using the Paint functions of Graphic Workshop and PNG MNG Construction Set. * Addresses several more of minor issues in the settings pane. * Improves the drawing engine's performance. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4***(additional notification)*** 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. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html or click on the Unsubscribe button: Removal requests will be processed instantly. 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