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Contents:
1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 10 * (additional
notification)
2. *PNG MNG Construction Set 14 Revision 5*
3. *Screen Saver Construction Set 14 Revision 2 *(secondnotification)
4. *Even More Important (Keep Trusting Us) *(new this weekend)
5. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details*
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 10
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
*Graphic Workshop Professional 14* has been updated.
*In this release:
*
* ***Thumbnails:* A decidedly pernicious issue in Graphic Workshop's
thumbnail management logic has been addressed. Left to its own
devices, it could destabilize and crash Graphic Workshop if somewhat
large graphics were thumbnailed... under some builds of Windows..
This one's fairly serious, and we'd like to take this opportunity to
urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release no
later than half an hour ago.
* *Build to Clipboard and View:* Many of the features in Graphic
Workshop's browser right-click menu can build their modified
graphics to the Windows clipboard, as well as to disk files, from
whence they can be pasted into other applications.
Those that don't have integral View functions can now build graphics
to a Graphic Workshop View window, for additional processing.
Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click on OK to build to
the clipboard. Hold down the Alt key and click on OK to build to
View where it's applicable.
This feature is available for the Adjust, Caption, Effects, Matt and
Frame, Photography Workshop, Transform and Watermark functions. See
the sections in Graphic Workshop's Reference document pertaining to
these windows for more information.
* *Preview Images:* A number of the user interface windows in Graphic
Workshop that display preview images — most notably Get Information,
Delete, Rename and Move and Copy — can now look to Graphic
Workshop's THN thumbnail files if no other quick source of
thumbnails is to hand. This speeds up these functions, and largely
banishes the thumbnail not available symbol.
* *Font Wrangler UltraLight: *A bug that prevented the entire sample
text being displayed in the Font Sample window under some builds of
Windows has been stomped.
* *Favorites:* A bug in the Graphic Workshop Favorites window that
could cause it to crash if more than one thumbnail was selected has
been disabused of its bad behavior.
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, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The graphic of the woman with a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used
under license from StockFresh.
PNG MNG Construction Set 14 Revision 5
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
PNG MNG Construction Set 14 has been updated.
*In this release:
*
* *JPEG Security:* The PNG MNG Construction Set JPEG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set to update to this release,
'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
The current version of the JPEG library is available in the About →
Credits window. It's currently 3.0.0.
* *PNG Security:* The PNG MNG Construction Set PNG library has been
updated to the latest release to address several potential security
and performance issues.
The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About
→ Credits window. It's currently 1.6.40.
* *WebP Security:* The PNG MNG Construction Set WebP library hasbeen
updated to the latest release to address several potential security
and performance issues.
The current version of the WebP library is available in the About →
Credits window. It's currently 1.3.1.
**
* *Duration:* Animations opened in PNG MNG Construction Set will tell
you their running time. Hover your mouse over the Header block or
double-click on it to open the Header editor.
* *Time Index:* The current time index for each image chunk of an
animation can now be found by hovering over it, or double-clicking
on it to open its editor.
* *Previews:* Several chunk editors that hitherto lacked preview
images lack them no more.
* *Animation Interface: *Several animation interface items that could
provide PNG MNG Construction Set with invalid information, and hence
confuse it greatly, have been smartened up.
* *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 14.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 12, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction
Set 14 for *half the current new-user price*. Click on the blue button
below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The background of the banner graphic above, a detail from a picture by
Jimi Backhouse, is used under license from freeimages.com. The ink well
icon for PNG MNG Construction Set was created by Eugen Buzuk of
icondrawer.com, and is used under license.
Screen Saver Construction Set 14 Revision 2
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>
*Screen Saver Construction Set 14* has been updated.
*In this release:*
* *WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to the latest release to
address several security and performance issues.
The current version of the WebP library is available in the About →
Credits window. It's currently 1.3.0.
* *Runtime:* The Screen Saver Construction Set runtime has been
updated to address a number of performance and security issues.
* *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 14.
Download now <http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 12, we invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver
Construction Set 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Even More Important (Keep Trusting Us)
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy1.html>
As was touched on in last week's posting, Alchemy Mindworks' software
has traditionally been signed with a digital certificate. The most
visible function of this technology is to prevent Windows from
displaying scary messages when you install our stuff.
Earlier this year, the price of digital code signing certificates
escalated from exorbitant to extortionate. In the interest of keeping
our costs, and hence the prices of our products, as low as possible, we
decided to rethink the issue of code signing.
We've created what we consider to be an elegant resolution to this
issue. If you download and install Alchemy Mindworks software, we invite
you to install the Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
first. Click on the foregoing link for an approachable discussion of
this issue, and a two-minute walk-through to make the whole treacherous
conspiracy go away for the next decade.
While you're busy ridding your computer of some of Windows' more
nettlesome popups, we invite you to disable its Smart Screen blue window
of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
as well, another questionable security feature that's probably beset you
with concern of late.
There are few things you can do with a computer that are more satisfying
than spanking Windows.
Should you have any concerns about our software, the security thereof or
the issue of code signing, we invite you to contact us
<https://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html>. We'll be pleased to
explain this situation in as much detail as you require, and the message
you receive will be signed by a living, breathing Alchemy Mindworks
staff member — not a certificate.
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