From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jul 6 10:33:38 2019 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 10:33:38 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <1da55d81-70f7-c082-b275-a90b5fdbff78@mindworkshop.com> Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *?e-Paint 9 Revision 3 * 2. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 14 **(*******second notification******)******** 3. *?Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 9*******(additional notification******)*** * * * 4. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *****Now featuring Witchcraft 2.0. Faster transformation of politicians into toads. No in-app purchases. Click on the book.*** e-Paint 9 Revision 3 e-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 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 . * Updates e-Paint so it will appear in the Windows Explorer or File Explorer *Open With* window for all the file types it knows how to open. * Fixes a bug that could cause the *Help* in the *Filters* window to fail to open under some builds of Windows and with some web browsers. * Addresses several issues with e-Paint*Association Wizard*. * Updates the e-Paint *drawing engine* to address some peculiar behaviors when it was confronted with large outline sizes, non-standard fonts and complex polygons. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Click on the blue button to download e-Paint 9. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 8, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 9 for *half the current new-user price*. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 14 ***(second notification)*** 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. The Graphic Workshop ancillary applications that open files ? e-Paint UltraLight, GIF Construction Set UltraLight, Montage UltraLight and Archive Manager ? will also appear in Open With for the file types in question. * 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 ***(additional 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. 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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