From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat May 30 09:27:16 2020 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 09:27:16 -0400 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. *?e-Paint 10 Revision 4 * 2. *?Screen Saver Construction Set 10 Revision 2 *(second notification) 3. *?GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 5 *(additional notification) 4. *?Graphic Workshop Professional - Ten Cool Features *(additional notification)** 5. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details** * ***Contains no actual dragons. You won't miss them... trust us. * *Click on the book.** * e-Paint 10 Revision 4 e-Paint 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are: * *Application Security:*In our continuing determination to ensure that e-Paint 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. * *Graphic Libraries:* The libraries that open and save graphic files for e-Paint have been reviewed, line by line, until several programmers begged for a few days of differential calculus instead. They're now substantially more secure, and as such more resistant to malformed graphic files that have been crafted to install malware on your computer. They're also quicker and have smaller memory footprints. We urge all users of e-Paint to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you. * *Tool Box: *Addresses a cosmetic bug in the tool box window, under some configurations of Windows. * *Help: *Fixes a number of misdirected links in the Help buttons around the application. * *CGI Textures:* Adds Scratch textures to the CGI fill option 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. Also adds the Threads texture, a wildly ebullient procedural fractal that simulates complex surfaces as sequences of random twisted lines. You really need to see this puppy at work to truly appreciate how alternate-universe it can get. The example animation shown here, comprised of several example Scratch and Threads textures, represents but a fraction of their capabilities. * *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. 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. Screen Saver Construction Set 10 Revision 2 Screen Saver Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are: * *Animated PNG:* Screen Saver Construction Set 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:* Screen Saver Construction Set'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 Screen Saver Construction Setto 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction Set. 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 10. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Screen Saver Construction Set 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 5 (second notification) GIF Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are: * *Application Security:* In our continuing determination to ensure that GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you. * *Photostack: *The Photostack window now has an anti-alias option to improve its drawing quality ? a lot. * *Supercompressor: *A bug that prevented the Prune option of the Sueprcompressor from working as effectively as it could have has been remorselessly stomped. * *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. 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. Graphic Workshop Professional - 10 Cool Features (second notification) Graphic Workshop Professional 10 is rich with functionality... some of which you might not know it has. Here are ten leading-edge features you can access in Graphic Workshop. * *Supercompresor: *The JPEG supercompressor will let you interactively refine your JPG graphics to make them as small as you need them to be, with the best possible image quality. Master the nuances of JPEG without having to read up on quality factors, sub-sampling or color models. * *Print Poster: *Sometimes 8? by 11 inches really doesn't cut it. Fire up the Print Poster window in Graphic Workshop to have your pictures printed over multiple pages that can be cut and assembled into posters of any size you require. Let your best work be seen from space. * *Photo Fine-Tune:* The Photo Fine-Tune filter in the the View mode Filter window will refine your photographs with a few mouse clicks. It combines color adjustment, contrast and brightness and tone mapping... all in a simple, intuitive environment that won't require that you understand a word of the sentence you just read. * *EXIF:* Your graphic documents can contain EXIF metadata that defines the camera settings you used when you took your pictures; the GPS location of your camera; hidden content about the camera and attachments involved and much more. Graphic Workshop's EXIF editor will let you adjust these fields as you see fit. Its EXIF security window will optionally delete your EXIF data entirely, so the pictures you post to social media don't tell the world's subspecies precisely where to go to steal your stuff. * *Watermark:* Add professional text or graphic watermarks to your pictures to permanently identify them as your work. Share your photographs, not your royalties. * *GWS Camera Screen Capture:* Capture all or part of your Windows desktop to graphic files with your choice of options. Graphic Workshop's screen capture can automatically locate the topmost window on your desktop and save it without requiring that you manually select it. It will store sequentially-numbered captures without interaction. It can even include your current cursor. * *Photography Workshop:* Adjust your photographs using a gallery of pre-configured imaging filters for effects that range from subtle and sophisticated to heart-stoppingly extraterrestrial. Open any picture in the Photography Workshop window and just click on the variation you like. * *Identify Mystery Graphics:* If you've ever downloaded a picture from the Internet and discovered that it won't open in any of your installed software, you'll find Graphic Workshop's ability to determine what's in your mysterious files to be just this side of spooky. Double-click on a problem graphic from within Graphic Workshop... or use its dedicated Identify Mystery Files menu option... to have it determine the correct file type in question and rename your file correctly. * *The UltraLight Screen Clock:* A simplified version of our popular Ultimate Screen Clock application, the screen clock that installs with Graphic Workshop will display your choice of digital and analog desktop clocks. Sufficiently cool to shatter penguins, you can have the clock configured to your liking in substantially less time than you've taken to read this paragraph. * *Icon Editor:* Create and modify Windows icons with an easily-mastered palette of tools and functionality. Customize your desktop and build unforgettable favicons for your web pages. If this application was any easier to use it would work by thought control... and our lawyers would scream loudly enough to be heard in Patagonia. 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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