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Contents:
1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 3 *(second notification)
2. *GIF Construction Set Professional 14 Revision 3
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3. *Announcing Animation Workshop 14 *(additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 3
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
*Graphic Workshop Professional 14* has been updated.
*In this release:
*
* *PNG Security:* The Graphic Workshop PNG library has been updated to
the latest release to address several potential security and
performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all
users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release, 'coz the
universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About
→ Credits window. It's currently 1.6.38.
* *TIFF:* Graphic Workshop's TIFF reader has been refined, enhanced
and made cooler still. It will now open a much larger palette of
TIFF documents... even the really, really weird ones.
* *Archive Manager:* An issue that could cause Graphic Workshop's
Archive Manager to decide... incorrectly... that some .tar.gz
archives were damaged has been addressed.
* *Welcome Wizard:* A number of problems that appeared on occasion in
Graphic Workshop's Welcome Wizard have been nailed, and the wizard
will now prompt you before it begins invoking its magic.
* *Secure EXIF Metadata:* Several problems that could cause the Secure
EXIF item to be absent from Graphic Workshop's right-click menu
under some configurations of Windows have been disabused of this
behavior. Should you be unfamiliar with it, Secure EXIF will quickly
and permanently remove the hidden metadata from JPG and PNG
documents that could be used to determine exactly where you were
when you took the pictures in question.
* *More Secure EXIF Metadata:* Graphic Workshop's Secure EXIF logic is
now available as a batch function. Select as many JPG and PNG
documents as you like and then select Secure EXIF from the Graphic
Workshop Image menu to remove their location data.
* *Presentaton Wizard UltraLight:* Graphic Workshop's ancillary
Presentation Wizard UltraLight application's runtime has been
updated to use our shockingly fast low-level pixel management
technology, speeding everything up.
* *Thumbnail Alpha: *Graphic Workshop's thumbnail manager hitherto
ignored the transparency of some images when it was creating
thumbnails. This has been fixed.
* *Preview Alpha:* Graphic Workshop's preview image logic was also
omitting alpha transparency under some configurations of Windows,
and this too is history.
* *MP3:* Under some configurations of Windows, Graphic Workshop's
browsers could display two thumbnails for each MP3 document therein.
It's now down the traditional one thumbnail for file.
* *System Information: *Under some configurations of Windows, Graphic
Workshop's System Information window would omit your motherboard
BIOS serial number. It's back.
* *Get Information:*The Graphic Workshop Get Information window didn't
always respond correctly to a held-down Shift key to disable its
preview image. Now it does.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 14, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <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.
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under license from StockFresh.
GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 Revision 3
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
GIF Construction Set Professional 14 has been updated.
*In this release:*
* *PNG Security:* The GIF Construction Set PNG library has been
updated to the latest release to address several potential security
and performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge
all users of GIF Construction Set to update to this release, 'coz
the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About
→ Credits window. It's currently 1.6.38.*
*
* *Digital Video:* The GIF Construction Set Export to Movie**has been
enhanced to accurately preserve the delays and running time of the
source animations it exports from. It also manages attached sound
more accurately.*
*
* *Welcome Wizard:* A number of problems that appeared on occasion in
GIF Construction Set's Welcome Wizard have been nailed, and the
wizard will now prompt you before it begins invoking its magic.
* *System Information: *Under some configurations of Windows, GIF
Construction Set's System Information window would omit your
motherboard BIOS serial number. It's back.
* *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 14.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 14, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <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.
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Fabibel, is used under license from freeimages.com.
Announcing Animation Workshop 14
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Animation Workshop 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to Animation Workshop, 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 Animation Workshop 14, you'll
find...
* *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for Animation Workshop has been
re-written in optimized machine language. Since most of what
Animation Workshop does involves managing pixels, it has become
substantially quicker.*
**JPEG Security:* Animation Workshop's Turbo JPEG library has been
updated to the latest release to address some security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Animation Workshop to update to this
release as quickly as possible.*
WebP:***The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.*
Rendering Engine:* Improves the performance of Animation Workshop's
animation rendering engine.*
Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever Animation
Workshop prompts you to select a color has been enhanced with an
expanded palette of more contemporary colors — scroll to the bottom
of the list to see them. In addition, you can now re-arrange the
color list by dragging and dropping its items.
* *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 Animation Workshop 14.
DownloadNow <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
12 on or after July 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Animation Workshop 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop
14 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 14, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
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