From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 16 11:03:18 2021 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 11:03:18 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <7146037d-c07a-c128-e28d-c69e888f365e@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. *?PNG MNG Construction Set Revision 3 * 2. *?GIF Construction Set Professional 11 Revision 3*(second notification) 3. *Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 11*(additional notification) 4. *Graphic Workshop Professional **?**A Further 10 Cool features* 5. ***Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details* **** *There are barbarians at the gate! (This is probably not a good time to tweet about them.) **** **Click on the book.* PNG MNG Construction Set 11 Revision 3 PNG MNG Construction Set 11 has been updated. In this release: * *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Screen Saver Construction Set to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of PNG MNG Construction Set to updateto this release immediately. ** * *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for PNG MNG Construction Setto address several potential security issues. It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics. * *Supercompressor: *Fixes a bug that could result in wholly black animations if the Palette Compression option was enabled in PNG MNG Construction Set's Supercompressor window under some configurations of Windows. * *User Interface:* Updates the typographic controls in the Caption, Text Overlay and Watermark windows to make them more intuitive and generally cooler. * *****Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to PNG MNG Construction Set's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing PNG MNG Construction Set's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Display tab of PNG MNG Construction Set's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us.* * * *Edge Support:* PNG MNG Construction Set will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.* * * *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in PNG MNG Construction Set to call for one of these alternate paint applications. * *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 Professional 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 10, we invite you to *upgrade to **PNG MNG Construction Set**Professional 11* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. ** GIF Construction Set Professional 11 Revision 3 GIF Construction Set Professional 11 has been updated. In this release: * *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Screen Saver Construction Set to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of GIF Construction Set to updateto this release immediately. ** * *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for GIF Construction Setto address several potential security issues. It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics. * *Supercompressor: *Fixes a bug that could result in wholly black animations if the Palette Compression option was enabled in GIF Construction Set's Supercompressor window under some configurations of Windows. * *User Interface:* Updates the typographic controls in the Caption, Text Overlay and Watermark windows to make them more intuitive and generally cooler. * *****Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to GIF Construction Set's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing GIF Construction Set's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Display tab of GIF Construction Set's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us.* * * *Edge Support:* GIF Construction Set will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.* * * *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in GIF Construction Set to call for one of these alternate paint applications. * *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. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 10, we invite you to *upgrade to **GIF Construction Set**Professional 11* for half the single-user license price. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. ** Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 11 (additional notification) Screen Saver Construction Set 11 has been released. We've further refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better utilize the resources available under 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 11, you'll find that it: * *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Screen Saver Construction Set to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release immediately. * *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for Screen Saver Construction Setto address several potential security issues. It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics. * *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics for Screen Saver 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. * ***Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Screen Saver Construction Set's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Screen Saver Construction Set's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of Screen Saver Construction Set's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us. * *Edge Support:* Screen Saver Construction Set will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation. * *Animation Editor:* Fixes a bug in the animation object editor Preview window, which could render animation backgrounds incorrectly. * *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, Alpha Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in Screen Saver Construction Set to call for one of these alternate paint applications. The alternate paint selection logic will call e-Paint for graphics without alpha transparency, and Alpha Paint for graphics that have alpha transparency. * *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 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 10 on or after July 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Screen Saver Construction Set 11. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set10 prior to July 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 11 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Screen Saver Construction Set 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. Graphic Workshop Professional ? A Further 10 Cool Features (second notification) Graphic Workshop Professional 11 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. * *Social Media: *Quickly format your pictures for posting to Facebook, Twitter and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media window offers a rich palette of effects and options ? a tiny sample of which can be seen to your right ? and the option to save your favorite effects for future use. * *Windows Thumbnails: *Select the Zoomed Thumbnails View mode in a Graphic Workshop browser's right-click menu, and then select Zoomed Windows Thumbnails from its Thumbnail sub-menu. You'll see quick, high-resolution thumbnails drawn from Windows' internal image cache. Enable one of the Pre-cache options to improve your browser window's performance. * *Favorites:* Right-click on a graphic in a Graphic Workshop browser window and select Pin to Favorites to add your selected picture to your current Favorites list. Open Favorites from Graphic Workshop's File menu to access a gallery of your pinned images. * *Web Check:* Run Graphic Workshop's Web Check ancillary application against your web site to quickly locate broken links, missing graphics and other difficult-to-spot errors that visitors to your pages will unquestionably notice almost immediately . * *Identify Mystery Files:* Double-click on any graphic in a Graphic Workshop browser ? if it's stored in a format other than what its file extension claims, Graphic Workshop will determine its true nature and offer you the opportunity to automatically rename it. * *Secure Delete:* If you disable the Recycle Bin option in Graphic Workshop's file deletion prompt and enable Secure Delete, the files you consign to oblivion will be overwritten multiple times with randomized data, making them impossible to recover... even for a prematurely-bald fourteen-year-old hacker with a backward baseball cap and sixteen fingers. * *Animation Workshop UltraLight:* Create professional banners, advertisements and other on-line animations from multiple objects with a few clicks with this simplified edition of our shockingly-sophisticated professional animation manager. Animation Workshop UltraLight is included with Graphic Workshop Professional 11. * *Edit EXIF:* Right-click on any JPG or PNG graphic in a Graphic Workshop browser window to edit its EXIF metadata... or to add EXIF blocks if they're not present. Review and fine-tune the hidden information for your pictures and, perhaps more importantly, remove location data from the pictures you upload and share to prevent the world's bottom feeders from knowing where you live and where all your stuff is. * *Print Posters:* Select the Print Posters option from the Image menu of Graphic Workshop to have your pictures tiled over multiple sheets of paper. Follow the instructions for cutting them out and sticking the tiles together to create perfect, seriously huge hard copy that can be seen from across the street or... if you have lots of toner... low Earth orbit. * *Screen Capture Captions:* Enable the Caption option in the GWS Camera screen capture application to add captions to the captures you create. Screen capture captions can be generated automatically using GWS Camera's lucid macro language, or you can be prompted for them. Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop Professional 11* 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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