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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4 *
2. * Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2***(second notification)
3. * Announcing Calendar Wizard 10***(additional notification)
4. *Windows 7 End of Life*
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:
* Updates the primary *PNG libraries* used by Graphic Workshop and its
ancillary applicationsto the latest release. This addresses several
potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users
of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file
vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under
rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
* Adds *EXIF support for PNG* files. You can view EXIF metadata stored
in PNG graphics, remove it with the Secure EXIF option of the
browser right-click menu and modify it using Graphic Workshop's
amazing internal EXIF editor.
You can also have EXIF metadata — such as your *camera settings and
your GPS location* — preserved when you convert between JPG and PNG.
See the section of the Graphic Workshop manual document that deals
with EXIF for more about this.
* Fixes a problem with *The UltraLight Screen Clock* that could cause
a warning to be displayed when the clock started, depending on your
build and configuration of Windows.
* Addresses a problem with the file rename function of Graphic
Workshop's browser windows, which hitherto refused to accept commas
in some circumstances.
* Updates *Archive Manager* to improve a number of user interface
elements, and to correct several kind of embarrassing spelling errors.
* Adds an option to Graphic Workshop's configuration to allow the
image resizing filter used to display zoomed thumbnails to be
specified — see
*ThumbnailZoomFilter* in the Configuration document. If you use the
Zoomed Thumbnail browser mode and you want to maximize its image
quality, select a filter option that best suits the graphics you
work with and the typical state of your eyes.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional 10 yet, you might
want to review a more extensive list of its new functionality and
enhancements <http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html>.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop
Professional 10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2
(second notification)
Alpha Paint 10 has been updated. This release:
* Updates the *color selection windows* that appear in Alpha Paint to
include an editable hexadecimal color value field. This allows
colors to be directly copied and pasted into web page HTML
documents, and between applications that support this notation.
* Improves a number of user-interface elements in the tool box, and
deals with several control fields which could accept out-of-range
values, causing the software to misbehave in some situations.
* Updates the primary *PNG library* used by Alpha Paintto the latest
release. This addresses several potential security and image quality
issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date
and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad
people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they
can to ruin your day.
* Addresses a number of issues from the initial release.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
the likelihood of Alpha Paint 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.
Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint Professional 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9, we
invite you to *upgrade to Alpha Paint 10* for half the single-user
license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Announcing Calendar Wizard 10
(addtional notification)
We've enhanced functionality of Calendar Wizard, added some radical new
clock styles, improved its performance 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 Calendar Wizard, you'll find
that it:
* Adds a palette of*frame styles* to the Month editor tabs. In
addition to traditional square frames, Calendar Wizard can now
create gradient frames and cornered frames, as are illustrated to
your right.
This represents a mere fraction of the calendar styles you can
create with the new frame styles.
To access the new frames, open a Month edit window and click on the
Heading tab.
The Heading tab in Calendar Wizard 10 also includes a Line Size
field, to allow you to specify the line weight from frames.
* Updates the user interface of the *Year and Month editors*. In
previous editions of Calendar Wizard, it was possible to enter
out-of-range values in the numeric fields of the editors under some
builds of Windows... which could result in some pretty weird calendars.
* Updates the *Print Dodecahedral* calendar logic, that will render
your calendars as twelve-sized desk toys that can be printed, cut
out and folded into three-dimensional objects.
There were a few printer inconsistencies in the previous edition
that turned up on some output devices.
Should the dodecahedral calendar option have thus far eluded notice,
there's an example shown here prior to the application of scissors
and tape. It takes about five minutes to cut one out and assemble
it... and then most of the following year to stop playing with it.
We hasten to add that you can choose the design elements in
dodecahedral calendars — this includes adding pictures or textures
to their faces, in place of the solid color illustrated in this posting.
* Updates the *JPEG library* used by Calendar Wizard 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.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
the likelihood of Calendar Wizard 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.
As in years past, when you run Calendar Wizard10 for the first time, it
will look for a previous installation of Calendar Wizard 9 and
optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Calendar Wizard 10.
Note that in addition to installing Calendar Wizard, you'll probably
also want to install Calendar Wizard *Extra Styles library*, which will
augment it with wealth of additional clock styles, including some of the
ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is also accessible
through this big blue button.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 9
on or after June 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Calendar Wizard10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard9
prior to June 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 10
for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Calendar Wizard 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/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Windows 7 End of Life
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
In a little under two weeks, *Windows 7 will reach its end of life*.
Security updates, bug fixes, malware protection and virus signatures
will no longer be forthcoming from Microsoft. Windows 7 will become the
province of the wildly adventurous and the clinically insane.
It was our favorite version of Windows too, and we hate to see it go.
In the event that you'll be *upgrading to Windows 10* and you find
yourself still running versions 4 or 5 of Graphic Workshop, GIF
Construction Set or any of the other Alchemy Mindworks applications with
a decade or so on their clocks, we'd like to take this opportunity to
invite you to upgrade to version 10.
Doing so will:
* Get you all the latest functionality of our current releases.
* Avail you of our aggressive security updates.
* Avoid some serious profanity, because the version 4 and 5 software
predates Windows 10, and as such doesn't install or run under it.
While the reduced-price upgrade window for these older applications
expired ages ago, from now until January 14, 2020 — this date being the
official last waltz for Windows 7 — we'd like to offer registered users
of our version 4 and 5 software *half-price upgrades* to version 10.
Click on the big blue button and use the Software Upgrades section of
our e-commerce page. If you encounter a message to the effect that
half-price upgrades are only available for users of version 9 and 10,
you can safely ignore it.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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