From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Feb 15 08:39:46 2020 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:39:46 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <8d017e83-84d8-9983-cbb8-49df30a63387@mindworkshop.com> ***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. *?Announcing Pagan Daybook 10 * 2. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5***(second notification) 3. *?Announcing Presentation Wizard 10 *(second notification)** 4. ***Newsletter Archive* 5. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *Madness, treachery, deceit, lust, murder, vengeance... (...and that's just the blurb on the back cover.)** * *Click on the book.* Announcing Pagan Daybook 10 (second notification) Pagan Daybook 10has been released. Among its new and enhanced features are: * *Timeline: *Adds a *Timeline window*, a browseable history of the past few hundred years. Right-click in Pagan Daybook and select Days ? Timeline to experience it. We hasten to add that the contents of the Timeline window are editable, should you discover that you prefer your perception of history to ours. Timeline also lends itself to being re-purposed ? you can replace its somewhat global history with your family's history, the history of your newly-restored classic Jag or the history of your sock collection. * *Screen Saver: *Adds logic to the *screen saver background* manager to allow full-screen background graphics to be optionally resized rather than tiled, so they appear without seams on displays with unusual dimensions ? laptops being the most likely suspects. * *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Pagan Daybook 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. * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Pagan Daybookto the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue. * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Pagan Daybook to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported graphics. * *Screen Saver:* Adds a Setup option to suppress Pagan Daybook's animation when it's displaying itself as a screen saver, for use on slower systems running Windows 10. * *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear in Pagan Daybook 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. * *Validation:* Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Pagan Daybook 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. * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. Click on the blue button to download Pagan Daybook 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 9 on or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Pagan Daybook 10. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 9 prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 10 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Pagan Daybook 10, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5 (second notification) Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this release: * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applicationsto the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue. 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. * *Quick Thumbnails:* Adds support for the Windows thumbnail cache, this being where Windows stores the thumbnails it uses in File Explorer. When Graphic Workshop creates thumbnails for graphics that Windows has previously cached, it can now do so at something approaching light speed by accessing the cache. It's impressive to watch. See the discussion of Thumbnails in the Graphic Workshop Reference document for more about this. This feature requires Windows 10. * *Zoomed Thumbnails:* Adds more support for the Windows thumbnail cache, in this case to Graphic Workshop's Zoomed Thumbnails display mode. By default, it will use cached Windows thumbnails in Zoomed mode, allowing for laser-sharp graphics. Especially if your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to experience this one. Right-click in a Graphic Workshop browser, select Thumbnails from the sub-menu that appears and make sure Zoom Windows Thumbnails is enabled. Right click and select View Mode from the sub-menu that appears and select Zoomed Thumbnails. This feature requires Windows 10. * *Animated PNG:* Adds viewing support for animated PNG documents. If you double-click on one, it will play in Graphic Workshop's View window, much as do WebP and GIF animations. The animation that's bouncing around to your right ? assuming that whatever you're using to read this posting supports animated PNG ? is a suitable example. Right click on it and save it to try Graphic Workshop's animated PNG support. There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog . * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications ? e-Paint UltraLight, Montage, GIF Construction Set UltraLight and so on ? to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported and saved graphics. * *Ripples Texture: *Adds Ripples to the Graphic Workshop Textures and Fractals window. Create a faint disturbance in a tranquil pond, or crank it up to maximum and visit an alternate universe during lunch. * *Paste:* Addresses an issue in the Paste From Clipboard item of Graphic Workshop's Edit menu that could cause it to select the discrete Save As window option even if it was configured not to. * *Multiple Select:* Improves the multiple image selection window to handle alpha graphics correctly. * *Progress Window:* Improves the Progress window so its scroll bar doesn't appear until a batch completes, which is both less distracting and slightly quicker. * *Alpha Backgrounds:* Improves the management of alpha backgrounds throughout the application, and adds a color button in Setup to set the default alpha background, for graphics that don't specify one. * *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* 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. The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons . Announcing Presentation Wizard 10 (second notification) Presentation Wizard 10 has been updated. In this release: * *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Presentation Wizard 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. * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Presentation Wizardto the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue. * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Presentation Wizard to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported and saved graphics. * *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear in Presentation Wizard 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. * *Validation:* Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Presentation 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. * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. Click on the blue button to download Presentation Wizard 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Presentation Wizard**10* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. Newsletter Archive The Alchemy Mindworks web page now includes a chronological archive of our recent newsletter postings. If you'd like to check out the new features for one of our version 10 applications ? or if you missed a few postings ? we invite you to visit the archive. Click on the big blue button, below, or access the archive through the Alchemy Mindworks web page ? click on the Support tab and then on the Newsletter Archive link. 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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