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Contents:
1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 5
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2. ***Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 11 *(second notification)
3. *Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set *(additional notification)
4. *Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 11*(additional
notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 5
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been updated. This release:
* *JPG: *Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to address several
potential security issues.
We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop to update to
this release immediately.
* *Archive Manager:* Fixes a bug in Graphic Workshop's stand-alone
Archive Manager that could cause it to display spurious file error
messages when it extracted documents from a ZIP archive under some
configurations of Windows.
* *Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Graphic Workshop's Setup
window, allowing the default external paint application to be
selected without recourse to editing Graphic Workshop's
configuration data.
Click on Select Paint in the Browser tab of Graphic Workshop's Setup
window.
The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain
everything... trust us.
* *Textures:* Addresses an issue in the Manage Library selector of the
Textures and Fractals window that prevented it from correctly
responding to double clicks under some configurations of Windows.
* *Edge Support:* Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications will
now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display their documentation.
* *Textures:* Fixes a bug in the CGI Granite pane of the Textures and
Fractals window that prevented it from correctly applying the last
two of its color buttons to the texture being created.
* *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 experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 11 as yet,
please see its initial release announcement
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/976.html> for a list of all its new and
enhanced functionality.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 11
(second notification)
We've enhanced functionality of The Ultimate Screen Clock, added some
radical new clock styles, improved its performance and generally refined
it to better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still
performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to
Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to The Ultimate Screen Clock,
you'll find that it:
* *Deck Watch:* Adds the Deck Watch clock style, available in two
sizes and in light and dark manifestations — the dark version is
shown here.
A revenant from the age of sail, a deck watch such as this one would
have been used to transfer the time from a ship's chronometer to the
navigator on deck. While a fifty-dollar GPS could out-navigate one
of these things in a heartbeat today, it wouldn't look anywhere near
as cool while it was doing so.
We hasten to add that the above clock is an animation, not actual
software. There's a one in 3600 chance that it's actually displaying
the correct time as you read this.
* <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/981-003.png>*Magento:* Adds the Magneto
clock style, illustrated to your right. Incandescent, luminous,
attitude with atomic-time precision... the Magneto style belongs on
your desktop and it isn't above pushing some of your other
applications out of the way to get there.
It comes in a substantial number of permutations of colors and sizes.
The animation above is but a pale reflection of the Magneto style.
Double-click on it to see the Magneto Large clock full size —
there's a medium size set of styles as well.Once again, the above
clock is an animation, not actual software. There's a one in 3600
chance that it's actually displaying the correct time as you read this.
* *Sound Effects:* Adds optional sound effects to The Ultimate Screen
Clock's screen saver. It can beep and crash and zap and generally
express itself whenever the moving clock changes direction, appears
or otherwise does something interesting.
You can enable or disable screen saver sounds in the Application tab
of The Ultimate Screen Clock's Setup window. Click on the Sounds
button therein to configure your choice of the substantial internal
library of sound effects, or import your own.
* *Saver Backgrounds: *Adds a number of new screen saver background
graphics fresh from an alternate universe. Right-click in The
Ultimate Screen Clock and select Styles → Select Saver Style, and
then click on Transitions to experience the entire library.
The new Tendrils screen saver background with the large red Magneto
clock style floating over it is truly epic.
In addition to fractal textures and other abstract content, The
Ultimate Screen Clock can use photographs as its screen saver
backgrounds. We've added a few examples to the library of
backgrounds. No wolves were harmed in the making of this application
— and happily, no photographers.
* *Engine:* Updates the clock rendering engine to improve the
appearance of various style elements.
* *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics
for The Ultimate Screen Clock have been reviewed to ensure that
they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge
all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 11for the first
time, it will look for a previous installation of The Ultimate Screen
Clock 10 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't
have to set everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 11.
Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll
probably also want to install The Ultimate Screen Clock *Extra Styles
library*, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles,
including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is
also accessible through this big blue button.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 10 on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to The Ultimate Screen Clock 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock10 prior to June 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to The
Ultimate Screen Clock 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 11, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Depending upon your configuration of Windows, the installer for The
Ultimate Screen Clock may advise you that a reboot of Windows is
required to complete the installation of this software. You can largely
ignore this message — Windows will remove a file from your previous
installation the next time your computer reboots, but your current
installation of The Ultimate Screen Clock can proceed without rebooting
immediately.
Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 11
(additional notification)
We've added new functionality to the world's most capable leading-edge
web animator, improved its performance, and generally refined it to
better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still
performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to
Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to PNG MNG Construction Set 11,
you'll find:
* *Social Media: *Quickly compose your animations for Twitter,
Facebook and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media
window will automatically resize and crop your content and apply a
rich palette of backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed
through the PNG MNG Construction Set Professional Block menu.
* *Talkies: *The Export to Movie option can now optionally add a sound
track of your choice to digital video created from your animations.
* *Caption: *The PNG MNG Construction Set Caption window will add
captions to your animations. The Caption editor now allows for rich
text — it's pretty much a small word processor that supports
multiple fonts, typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten
to add that the original PNG MNG Construction Set Caption window is
still available, should you prefer it. Select Classic Caption Window
in Setup to access it.
* *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
graphics for PNG MNG Construction Set have been reviewed to ensure
that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge
all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Photostack:* The Photostack window has been refined to address a
number of performance issues for more attractive final animations.
* *Resize:* Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality issues
and a minor arithmetic error in the Resize to Dimensions option have
been resolved.
* *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 PNG MNG Construction Set 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're
welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you
to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG
MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 11 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
*
*
*IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under PNG MNG Construction
Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and you plan to uninstall PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 to replace them with
the new version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all your version
10 plugins, and then uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG
Construction Set 10.
PNG MNG Construction Set 11 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 11 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
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Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 11
(additional notification)
A few first-edition issues in GIF Construction Set Professional 11 have
been addressed:
* The option to create AVI digital video with sound could create AVI
documents that didn't play properly under some configurations of
Windows. This has been fixed.
* The Resize window didn't always resize to the specified dimensions
when the resize to Dimensions option was selected. Now it does.
* Some postings to this list last weekend omitted the Download Now
button for GIF Construction Set Professional 11. It's back, below.
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From the initial announcement:
GIF Construction Set Professional 11 has been released.
We've added new functionality to the world's most widely-used web
animator, improved its performance, and generally refined it to better
get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still performs
admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows
XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to GIF Construction Set
Professional 11, you'll find:
* *Reboot: *GIF Construction Set Professional has been completely
rewritten and expanded. It manages memory more effectively, has a
smaller code footprint than its predecessors and is substantially
quicker. Most of its functionality that previously only worked on
selected blocks will now apply to an entire animation if no blocks
are selected. The color management logic used throughout the
application has been improved. Everything's easier and more intuitive.
* *Social Media: *Quickly compose your animations for Twitter,
Facebook and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media
window will automatically resize and crop your content and apply a
rich palette of backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed
through the GIF Construction Set Professional Block menu.
* *Talkies: *The Export to Movie option can now optionally add a sound
track of your choice to digital video created from your animations.
* *Caption:* The Caption window has been updated.
* *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
graphics for GIF Construction Set have been reviewed to ensure that
they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge
all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Photostack:* The Photostack window has been refined to address a
number of performance issues for more attractive final animations.
* *Resize:* Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality issues
have been resolved.
* *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 Professional 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 11, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF
Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 11 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
*
*
*IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 10
or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and you plan to uninstall GIF
Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 to replace them with
the new version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all your version
10 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG
Construction Set 10.
GIF Construction Set 11 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 11 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
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