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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 6*(additional notification)
2. *GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3**
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3. * e-Paint 10 Revision 3* (second notification)**
4. * Announcing Font Wrangler 10 *(additional notification)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 6
(additional notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this release:
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic, the browser window navigation panes and the themes used by
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications. Left to its own
devices, this one could crash these applications and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the current release
and nail this vulnerability before it nails you.
* *View Mode Mystery Files: *Adds functionality to Graphic Workshop's
View mode to automatically run Identify Mystery Files if you attempt
to view a picture and it proves to be unreadable. This is a common
issue with graphics downloaded from the Internet, which not
infrequently arrive with incorrect extensions. The View logic will
prompt you if you encounter such a file, and optionally rename it
and proceed to open it in View.
This also works if you associate Graphic Workshop with one or more
of the file types it knows how to open, and subsequently
double-click on one in another application, such as File Explorer.
* *Quicker Zoomed Thumbnails:* Improves the Zoomed Thumbnails display
mode. The previous Graphic Workshop update added support for
high-resolution graphics thumbnails. This one integrates them into
the browser window caching logic, so the zoomed thumbnail mode is
substantially faster and more responsive.
Especially if your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to
experience this. 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.
* *Thumbnail Pre-cache:* Adds an option to disable thumbnail
pre-caching for selected browsers. A brief explanation follows —
grab something solid.
When Graphic Workshop first opens a browser — for example, when it
boots up — it will show you thumbnails for as many files as will fit
in the window. It will thereafter pre-cache thumbnails, silently
loading them during moments when it's idle, such that when you
scroll your browser, there won't be a noticeable delay as it fetches
its thumbnails from disk.
This feature can be enabled or disabled for the entire application
in the Setup window.
This upgrade adds an item to the browser right-click → Thumbnails
menu to disable pre-caching for selected browser windows. You might
wish to do this if you keep multiple browsers open in Graphic
Workshop and some of them point to folders with a large number of
pictures in them, or to folders you don't look at particularly
often. Doing so will reduce Graphic Workshop's memory footprint.
* *Animated PNG:* Improves the timing accuracy of Graphic Workshop's
new animated PNG viewer, and deals with a few weird-beard animated
PNG files that we encountered.
* *Association Wizard:* Removes Graphic Workshop's Association Wizard,
which hitherto would associate your choice of graphic file types
with Graphic Workshop, so Graphic Workshop could serve as a viewer
from other applications, such as File Explorer.
Recent changes to Windows appear to have broken Association Wizard,
possibly irretrievably.
We hasten to add that you can still associate file types with
Graphic Workshop through File Explorer's Open With window. This is
somewhat more intuitive than Association Wizard, and totally
bulletproof.
Please see the Associating File Types with Graphic Workshop section
of the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for an
updated discussion of how to handle file association.
* *Windows Libraries:* Adds fields to the Application tab of the
Graphic Workshop Setup window to allow you to customize the names
used for Windows' public and private libraries and folders as they
appear in Graphic Workshop's browser navigation panes.
* *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 <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>
The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain
by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball.png>.
GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 4
GIF Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced
features are:
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic and the themes used by GIF Construction Set. Left to its own
devices, this one could crash the application and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
* *PNG Security:* 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.
* *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by GIF
Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses a potential
security issue.
* *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by GIF
Construction Set to address a theoretical bug that could have
introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.
* *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 GIF Construction Set 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
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.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
e-Paint 10 Revision 3 (second notification)
e-Paint 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic and the themes used by e-Paint. Left to its own devices, this
one could crash the application and potentially compromise your
Windows security.
* *PNG Security:* 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.
* *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by e-Paint
to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue.
* *Ripples Texture: *Adds Ripples to the e-Paint CGI Textures window.
Create a faint disturbance in a tranquil pond, or crank it up to
maximum and visit an alternate universe during lunch.
* *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by e-Paint
to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted
artifacts at the right edges of imported and saved graphics.
* *Association Wizard:* Removes file type association from e-Paint's
Association Wizard, which hitherto would associate your choice of
graphic file types with e-Paint, so e-Paint could serve as a viewer
and editor from other applications, such as File Explorer.
Recent changes to Windows appear to have broken this function of
Association Wizard, possibly irretrievably.
Association Wizard is still available to configure other Alchemy
Mindworks applications, such as Graphic Workshop and Presentation
Wizard, to call e-Paint as their default paint application.
We hasten to add that you can still associate file types with
e-Paint through File Explorer's Open With window. This is somewhat
more intuitive than Association Wizard, and totally bulletproof.
Please see the Association Wizard and File Association section of
the Reference document of e-Paint's manual for an updated discussion
of how to handle file association.
* *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 e-Paint 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
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.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Announcing Font Wrangler 10 (second notification)
Font Wrangler 10has been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic and the themes used by Font Wrangler. Left to its own devices,
this one could crash the application and potentially compromise your
Windows security.
* *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Font
Wrangler 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 Font
Wrangler to the latest release. This addresses a potential security
issue.
* *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Font
Wrangler to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced
unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported graphics.
* *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear
in Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 9 on
or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Font
Wrangler 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 9
prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Font Wrangler 10
for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Font Wrangler 10, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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