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          Contents:

     1. *Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 10
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     2. * Font Wrangler 9 Revision 2
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     3. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details *




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        Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 10


    Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been released.

    We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular
    image management application, improved its performance, included
    several fresh ancillary applications and generally refined it to
    better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still
    performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back
    to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

    Among the new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
    Professional 10, you'll find that it:

      * Adds *Print Workshop*. Create hard copy of your pictures with
        precise size and positioning, down to the nearest hundredth of
        an inch (or of a centimeter). Effortless to configure, this is
        the ideal tool for creating photographs suitable for framing,
        flyers, handouts and other professional output on paper. It can
        even be configured to include trim lines and pre-press marks.
        Right-click on a graphic and select Print Workshop form the menu
        that appears.

      * Improves the speed of the Graphic Workshop browser windows
        with*predictive thumbnail caching*. Once a browser window has
        opened, Graphic Workshop will take its best guess at the
        thumbnails you're likely to scroll into view next and fetch them
        when you're not doing anything, pretty much eliminating any
        visible delay when you do get to them. It's the sort of thing
        only software developers could get excited about, but it works
        really well.

      * Adds a set of *CGI surface textures* to the Graphic Workshop
        Fractals and Textures window. Create convincing real-world
        surfaces, or build an exo-planet of your own devising. These
        things also look breathtaking when they appear in the Matt and
        Frame function of Graphic Workshop. A few examples of the
        limitless capabilities of these textures appears to your
        right... admittedly squeezed into some fairly restricted real
        estate.

      * Adds a batch mode to the *Identify Mystery Files* function of
        Graphic Workshop. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and
        select Identify Mystery Files from the File menu.

      * Adds *The UltraLight Screen Clock*. A simplified version of our
        immensely powerful and wildly popular Ultimate Screen Clock, The
        UltraLight Screen Clock will add your choice of sophisticated
        digital or analog clocks to your Windows desktop. It's cool
        enough to shatter penguins and have PETA people protesting
        outside your digs for a solid week.

      * Addresses a problem in*Icon Editor UltraLight* that could cause
        its drawing cursors to blink or flash for no apparent reason
        under some configurations of Windows.

      * <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/918-003.png>Adds a *Hexagon* filter
        to the View mode Filters window. Render your favorite pictures
        as a matrix of six-sided interlocking tiles. Channel your inner
        bee-keeper, harken back to the days of retro floor coverings or
        just do geometry because you can remember how. This one looks
        really cool when it's applied to high-resolution digital camera
        images. The example to your right is somewhat space-deprived —
        click on it to see a larger picture.

      * Adds the *Graphic Workshop Screen Saver*. Have your computer
        display your choice of pictures in a dynamic, animated slide
        show when your system is idle. Run in its native application
        mode, the Graphic Workshop Screen Saver also make a quick,
        accessible engine to display banners and advertisements on a
        large flat-screen monitor for retail environments.

      * Adds *Application Reset Blocker*. If you've been beset by
        Windows 10 periodically flying into a panic and resetting most
        of the applications you've selected to open documents to Edge,
        Photos, Groove and so on, you can banish the "app caused a
        problem" notification with this intuitive tool. Be sure to read
        the Help for this application before you click on Go.

      * Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by Graphic Workshop to
        the latest release. This addresses several potential security
        and image quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure...
        bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity to stress the
        importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files on your computer
        up to date — there are unquestionably maliciously-crafted
        graphics in the wild that can crash older JPEG software and
        execute arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your computer.

      * Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google,
        to create more attractive lossy files and otherwise improve
        reality as we know it.

      * Recognizes the*.jpeg* file extension as being valid JPEG files.

      * Adds a second *Pipes* style to the Textures and Filters window —
        thanks to everyone who e-mailed about the initial plumber's
        nightmare. Choose between the Industrial and Stainless Steel
        styles.

      * Updates the *TIFF* reader logic to correctly handle weird
        sixteen-bit gray-scale images correctly. There's always one more
        peculiar TIFF file.

      * Fixes a bug in the *Search* window that could allow it to be
        reduced in size sufficiently to obscure the Exit button under
        some configurations of Windows.

      * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to
        reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop un-registering itself
        and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because
        Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one
        nails the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that last
        year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd
        anticipated.

      * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
        developers never really stop meddling with.

      * Updates the documentation.


    The *Graphic
    Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed
    Reference* has been revised for the version10 software, and it
    includes sections for all the new functionality. It's available
    through Amazon -- there's a link to it at the Graphic Workshop web
    page, and you can access it through the Get The Graphic Workshop
    Printed Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu.


    All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in
    the version 10 software. Note that if you're currently using an
    earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:

      * Be sure to uninstall the version 9 plugins before you install
        Graphic Workshop Professional 10. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
        Professional 10 should prompt you to do so automatically the
        first time you run it.

      * You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to
        run under Graphic Workshop Professional 10.

    If you're using a registered copy of the Graphic Workshop RAW
    Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of
    Graphic Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work
    with the version 10 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.


    As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for
    the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic
    Workshop Professional 9 and optionally *copy your existing
    configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
    your open browser windows will be preserved.


    Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.


        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>


          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
    Workshop Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to
    a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 10.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
    Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to
    upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for *half the current
    new-user price*.

    The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, it will
    determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

    Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


    You can access the no-cost upgrade page
    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.





        Font Wrangler 9
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    Font Wrangler 9 has been updated. This release:


      * Adds *WebP* support — import leading-edge WebP graphics.

        The WebP format was developed by Google. It replaces PNG and
        JPEG with a twenty-first century graphics standard.

        There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
        <http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.

      * Addresses a number of issues in the graphic export functions of
        Font Wrangler.

      * Addresses a number of security issues.

      * Fixes a bug in the font naming logic.

      * 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 Font Wrangler
    8, we invite you to upgrade to Font Wrangler 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>




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