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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7 *(additional
notification)
2. *Presentation Wizard 10**Revision 2*
3. ***PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3* (new this weekend)
4. *The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2 *(second notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7
(additional notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. Among its new and
updated features are:
* *Application Security:* In our continuing determination to ensure
that Graphic Workshop presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the current release
and nail this vulnerability before it nails you.
* *Thumbnail Pre-cache: *Adds a per-browser option to enable thumbnail
pre-caching only when a browser is top-most.
Thumbnail pre-caching speeds up Graphic Workshop's browsers
considerably, but it can have a substantial memory footprint for
browsers looking at a lot of graphics. This refinement allows you to
have it automatically enabled only for the browser you're working
with at the moment.
Right-click in a browser, select Thumbnails and select Pre-cache
Thumbnails When Active to fire up this option.
* *Textures and Fractals:* Adds Scratch textures to the Graphic
Workshop Textures and Fractals window. Wild, unleashed and as
chaotic as you want to be, Scratch suggests bad urban art applied
with cheap spray paint, a dystopian landscape viewed from space by
an aging reconnaissance satellite or a really badly-behaved cat.
The example animation to your right, comprised of several variations
on one Scratch texture, represents but a fraction of its capabilities.
* *View Mode Shortcuts:* Hold down Ctrl in Graphic Workshop's View
mode and click on the Info button in its tool bar to quickly open
the Crop window.
The View mode tool bar's button tips have been expanded to include
their alternate functions enabled holding down the Shift and Ctrl
keys. If you'd like to learn all their secrets, hover your mouse
over each button for a moment.
* *Animated PNG:* Addresses an issue in the transparency management of
the animated PNG viewer.
* *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>
Presentation Wizard 10 Revision 2
Presentation Wizard 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced
features are:
* *Animated PNG:* Presentation Wizard now supports animated PNG in its
animation import functionality, an example of which appears to your
right. Enjoy the state of the art in animation... and let GIF become
a distant memory possibly resulting from eating the wrong kind of
mushrooms.
* *Animation Engine:* Presentation Wizard's animation engine has been
refined, improved and accelerated past the speed of light. It's
tighter, more accurate and bereft of a few bugs that crept into
earlier releases.
* *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by
Presentation Wizardto 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.
* *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by
Presentation Wizard to the latest release. This addresses several
potential security and image quality issues.
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic and themes used by Presentation Wizard. Left to its own
devices, this one could crash these applications and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to ensure that
Presentation Wizard presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all users of Presentation Wizard to update to the current
release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Legacy Windows:* Support for Windows screen drivers with eight or
fewer bits of color has been removed from Presentation Wizard and
its document run-time. This has made the run-time somewhat smaller
and substantially faster when it's asked to display still or
animated graphics. Eight-bit Windows screen drivers haven't been a
thing since the turn of the century — they won't be missed.
* *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.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html>
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.
<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>.
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 4
(new this weekend)
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced
features are:
* *Frame:* An issue with the Frame window that prevented it from
correctly adding frames to WebP animations has been addressed.
* *Animation Wizard:* A configuration issue with Animation Wizard
which caused it to create animations in which all the frames were
completely transparent if the Use As Is option was selected and
Preserve Transparency was enabled has been nailed.
* *Eyedropper:* A big that caused the Eyedropper color selector in the
Transparency editor for still PNG documents to malfunction has been
fixed.
* *Photostack:* The Photostack window now has an anti-alias option to
improve its drawing quality — a lot.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you missed the previous update for PNG MNG Construction Set 10, we
invite you to check out its new and enhanced functionality
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/948.html> — it totally rocks.
Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **PNG MNG 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>
The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2
(second notification)
The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
* *Oracle Style:* Adds the Oracle clock style, a dark, sinister and
evocative feature for any desktop. The Oracle style comes in two
sizes, each one with enough attitude to divert a raging bull
elephant and convince it to pursue a career in glassblowing. Your
mileage may vary, but if you do get the whole elephant thing to work
out, we'd be interested in seeing your videos.
We hasten to add that the clock illustrated here is an animation,
not actual software. The odds of it happening to be telling you the
correct time as you read this are really, really long.
* *Screen Saver: *Addresses an issue in The Ultimate Screen Clock's
screen saver which could cause it to display some textured
backgrounds with incomplete tiling under some configurations of Windows.
This update also adds a number of new background textures for The
Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver.
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic used by The Ultimate Screen Clock. Left to its own devices,
this one could crash these applications and potentially compromise
your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to ensure that The
Ultimate Screen Clock presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to the
current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Pressure Style:* Adds the Pressure style, in two sizes and lots of
colors, as illustrated here. Its digits appearing to have been
pressed from the sort of single-use plastic that sends green people
into low Earth orbit, the Pressure style is cheerful, insouciant and
probably soon to be made illegal on the west coast.
* *Dissolve: *Adds dissolve animated options to selected digital clock
styles. Rather than simply changing digits, many of The Ultimate
Screen Clock's digital styles can also dissolve between them. The
dissolve effect is subtle but intriguing. Select the digital
dissolve options in the clock style window to see this one at work.
Note that most of the dissolve options are installed by the
newly-updated extra styles library.
* *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 The Ultimate Screen Clock 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
Extra Styles
In addition to The Ultimate Screen Clock itself, the extra styles
library for The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 has also been updated. Its
download buttons can be found by clicking on the above DOWNLOAD NOW
button, right after those of the clock itself. We recommend that users
of The Ultimate Screen Clock also install the new extra styles library
to access its full palette of available clock styles.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **The Ultimate Screen Clock
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>
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