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Contents:
1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 3 * (additional notification)
2. *Announcing Font Wrangler 15*
3. *Announcing Pagan Daybook 15 *(second notification)
4. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details*
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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 3
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
*Graphic Workshop Professional 15* has been updated.
*In this release:*
* *JPEG:* The Graphic Workshop Turbo JPEG library has been updated to
version 3.0.1 to address a security issue. 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.
* *MOZ JPEG:* The Graphic Workshop MOZ JPEG plugin has been updated to
version 4.1.4, and Graphic Workshop's internal interface for it has
been expanded to make it a lot quicker when it's called by the
Graphic Workshop supercompressor.
If you use the MOZ JPEG plugin to create the smallest possible JPEG
documents, be sure to install this update.
* *Favor Turbo JPEG: *The Favor Turbo JPEG option in the JPG, PNG and
WebP tab of Graphic Workshop's Setup window will allow Graphic
Workshop to use the shockingly quick Turbo JPEG library to read JPEG
documents even if you've selected another JPEG Processor to write
them. This is exceedingly cool if you've installed the
aforementioned MOZ JPEG plugin to create really small JPEG files,
but want to view JPEGs without delay.
* *Turbo Fast DCT:* While a complete explanation of this parameter
could put bricks to sleep, the Turbo JPG Fast DCT option in Graphic
Workshop's Setup could hitherto have been ignored by the Turbo JPEG
library in some circumstances. This has been nailed. For most
applications of Graphic Workshop, this option should be disabled.
You'll find it in the JPG, PNG and WebP tab... along with an
explanation to put bricks to sleep, should you read the Help for it.
* *Mercury**Matrix:* A number of simple two-row matrix styles have
been added to the Matrix window. Look toward the end of the matrix
list for Wallpaper.
* *Write File Comments: *A bug in the file comment write logic that
appeared under some configurations of Windows is history.
* *Animation Workshop UltraLight: *A number of issues with the
Animation Workshop UltraLight rendering engine's object removal
logic have been addressed.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 15.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 on or after May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 prior to May 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 15, 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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in this section don't exist — their pictures were created by an AI at
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Announcing Font Wrangler 15
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html>
*Font Wrangler 15* has been released.
*In this release:*
* *JPEG Security:* The Font WranglerTurbo JPEG library has been
updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security issue. We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of Font Wranglerto update to
this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
* *WebP:* The Font Wrangler WebP library has been updated to version
1.3.2 to address a security issue.
* *Speed:* A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most
of the latest releases of Windows.
* *Themes:* An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy
Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash
the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
* *TTC Support:* Font Wrangler now supports TTC — TrueType Collection
— font files. You'll probably find a few of these in your Windows
fonts folder. Among its TTC features, Font Wrangler can extract
individual fonts from a TTC to conventional TTF files.
* *Memory Leak:* A resource memory issue that could cause Font
Wranglerto terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.
* *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 Font Wrangler 15.
Download now <http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 14
on or after July 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Font
Wrangler 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 14
prior to July 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Font Wrangler 15 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Font Wrangler 15, 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>
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Announcing Pagan Daybook 15
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html>
*Pagan Daybook 15* has been released.
We've added new functionality to Pagan Daybook, 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 Pagan Daybook 15, you'll find...
* ***Random Screen Savers:* The Select Screen Saver item in the Pagan
Daybook right-click menu now includes a random theme selector, to
further change Pagan Daybook's appearance when it appears as a
screen saver.
* *Welcome Wizard:* The Pagan Daybook Welcome Wizard now includes an
option to pre-configure your preferences for instantly variable
screen savers. We hasten to add that you can further adjust them any
time you like through the Select Screen Saver window. You can also
run Welcome Wizard from the right-click menu of Pagan Daybook to
access this feature if you're updating from an earlier edition of
Pagan Daybook.
* *JPEG:* The Pagan Daybbok JPEG library has been updated to version
3.0.1 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this
opportunity to urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to this
release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
* *WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
* *New Themes and Backgrounds:* A selection of hitherto unseen themes
and screen saver backgrounds is included with Pagan Daybook 15.
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* *Speed:* A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most
of the latest releases of Windows.*
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* *Theme Editor: *A number of issues in the Theme window have been
addressed, most notably its propensity for crashing on occasion,
depending on your configuration of Windows. An issue that could
prevent the 64-bit edition of Pagan Daybook from saving newly-edited
themes has also been stomped.
* *Memory Leak:* A resource memory issue that could cause Pagan
Daybook to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.
*
*
* *Cloud Textures: *A bug that could crash themes using cloud texture
backgrounds is no more.
* *Rendering Engine:* A number of metrics and details have been
improved in the background drawing engines for Pagan Daybook.
* *Observance Database:* The database of observances has been updated.
* *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 Pagan Daybook 15.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 14
on or after July 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Pagan
Daybook 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 15
prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 15 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Pagan Daybook 15, 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/pagkey.html> directly by clicking on the
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