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Contents:
1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 6 *(new this weekend)
2. * Calendar Wizard 12 Revision 2* (new this weekend)
3. * PNG MNG Construction Set 12 Revision 2 ***(additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 6
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been updated.
In this release:
* *Effects:* Several issues with the Graphic Workshop Effect window as
it applies to animations have been addressed. It hitherto could
produce mangled GIF documents under some configurations of Windows.
* *Save As:* Graphic Workshop's Save As window — as summoned by View,
among others — now references the default file extension field in
Setup. If you enter a file name with no extension, it will append
the default extension to create a legal file name. Note that if you
set File Extension Case in Setup to Lower Case, the file extensions
added by Save As will all be in lower case.
* *Animation Workshop UltraLight:* Graphic Workshop's ancillary
application Animation Workshop UltraLight has been updated to
address some issues with its frame modes, most notably one that
caused it to display spurious frames in animations with Image
objects having negative offset values. Several cosmetic issues
associated with the Respect Frame option have also been nailed.
* *Caption:* Graphic Workshop's default Caption window has been
updated such that its typographic controls — font, font size, text
color and so on — will apply to the entire text field if no text has
been selected. We've heard from a number of users of Caption who
suspected it was broken, as it appears to do noting if no selection
is available.
* *Crop: *The Graphic Workshop crop window has been updated to address
several issues. A cosmetic bug in the Properties window that could
leave spurious selection lines near the example image has been
stomped. A rounding error that caused dimensions set by Properties
to be off by one pixel under some configurations of Windows is no more.
* *EXIF: *The Turbo JPEG processor will now create JPEG files with
EXIF metadata intact if you enable Preserve EXIF Blocks in Setup and
convert or process source graphics having EXIF data.
* *Print 3D:* The Print Dodecahedron and Print Cube windows now
include fields to set the printed characteristics of dashed lines.
It has come to our attention that some Windows output devices — most
notably the Microsoft Print to PDF printer option — can render
dashed lines with tiny spaces between the dashes in question, so the
lines look more or less solid. If you're confronted by such a
device, set the Dashed Pen Mode in one of the foregoing windows to a
non-zero value — five or six works well in most cases.
If you haven't experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 12 as yet,
please see its initial release announcement
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/1028.html> for a list of all its new and
enhanced functionality.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 12, 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.
Calendar Wizard 12 Revision 2
Calendar Wizard has been updated.
In this week's release:
* *Dodecahedral Calendars:* It has come to our attention that some
Windows output devices — most notably the Microsoft Print to PDF
printer option — can render dashed lines with tiny spaces between
the dashes in question, so the lines look more or less solid. This
can make the dodecahdral calendar printer's output a bit difficult
to work with. If you're confronted by such a device, set the Dashed
Pen Mode in Setup to a non-zero value — five or six works well in
most cases.
From the initial release:
We've added new functionality to Calendar Wizard, improved its
performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10
and 11. (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 Calendar Wizard 12, you'll
find...
* ***Quick 64-bit Architecture:* Calendar Wizard is now available in
both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit
software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty
much never runs into memory issues. We hasten to note that
registering or updating to Calendar Wizard 12 will avail you of a
registration key that works with either edition... or both, if
you're feeling adventurous.
* *Windows 11 Compatible:* The version 11 software has been showing
some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing
and/or running therein. Calendar Wizard 12 rocks under Windows 11.*
*
* *Drawing Engine:* A number of metrics and details have been improved
in the calendar drawing engines for Calendar Wizard.
* *File Association:* An issue that prevented Windows from associating
Calendar Wizard's .CLN documents with the Calendar Wizard
application under some configurations of Windows has been addressed.
* *JPEG Security:* Calendar Wizard's Turbo JPEG library has been
updated to the latest release to address some security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Calendar Wizard to update to this
release as quickly as possible.
* *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 Calendar Wizard 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 11
on or after August 1, 2021, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Calendar Wizard 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 11
prior to August 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 12
for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Calendar Wizard 12, 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/calkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 Revision 2
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 has been updated. In this release:
* *Convert to RGB:* An issue in the Convert to RGB function that
created true-color animations with inaccurate or incorrect
background information in some circumstances has been addressed.
* *Export to GIF:* The Export to GIF option has been updated to nail a
bug that caused it to create invalid GIF documents under some
configurations of Windows.*
*
* *Color and Balance:* The Color and Balance window has been updated
to fix a problem with its real-time preview pane and to address some
document creation issues for RGBA source animations.
* *Convert to Gray:* The Convert to Gray function has been updated to
fix a background gray-level inaccuracy for some source animations.
* *Convert to Mono:* The Convert to Mono function has also been
updated to fix a background gray-level inaccuracy for some source
animations. It was a pervasive and sneaky bug, and now it's history.
* *Frame:* The Frame window has been updated to correctly handle some
RGBA source animations that hitherto confused it.
* *Shadow:* The Shadow window has been updated to address a clipping
issue that occurred with really large shadow offsets.
* *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 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to PNG MNG Construction Set 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set 12, 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.
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