From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 25 10:31:13 2020 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:31:13 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: ***This is an automatic posting ?from the Alchemy Mindworks Update Mailing List * Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) View this message in your web browser . ?Contents: 1. *?Animation Workshop 10 Revision 2 * 2. *?GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3 *(second notification)** 3. *?e-Paint 10 Revision 2 *(additional notification)** 4. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4 *(additional notification) 5. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *Lawyers ? they're not just for breakfast anymore.** * *Click on the book.* Animation Workshop 10 Revision 2 Animation Workshop 10 has been updated. This release: * Updates a number of user-interface items in the dialog windows in Animation Workshop. * Adds an Export to Animated PNG option. Animated PNG objects are true-color, leading edge animations that are supported by all the current mainstream web browsers. They feature millisecond-resolution timing, alpha transparency and modern image compression. You can use them ona web page just asyou would GIF animations, but with way more attractive results. In addition, if someone from a time warp does hit your page with an ancient or unusually weird browser, animated PNGs will look like traditional still-image PNGs ? browsers that can't animate them will display the first frame as a still image. As an aside, if the bouncing ball animation, above, isn't actually bouncing, your web browser doesn't support animated PNG. In the event that your web browser is Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, we hasten to observe that Microsoft's Edge Chromium browser, with full animated PNG support, will be rolling out any day now. There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog . * Updates the primary *PNG libraries* used by Animation Workshop to 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. * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce the likelihood of Animation 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. Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Animation Workshop**10* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons . GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3 (second notification) GIF Construction Set 10 has been updated. This release: * Updates the *File menu* recent documents list to optionally fetch its thumbnails from the Windows thumbnail cache. This allows it to open way faster, even if the pictures being referenced are really, really big. * Updates the primary *PNG libraries* used by GIF Construction Set to 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. * Speeds up *Animation Wizard*. * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce the likelihood of GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **GIF Construction Set**10* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. e-Paint 10 Revision 2 (additional notification) e-Paint 10 has been updated. This release: * Updates the *File menu* recent documents list to optionally fetch its thumbnails from the Windows thumbnail cache. This allows it to open way faster, and to banish forever the blue check mark graphics that indicated that the pictures being referenced were really, really big. * Updates the primary *PNG libraries* used by e-Paint to 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 several metrics issues in the *shape tool*. Yes, you sleep through high-school geometry at your peril. * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce the likelihood of e-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 e-Paint 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **e-Paint 10* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4 (additional notification) 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 . Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10. 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. 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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