<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks 867</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
.style3 {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size: 12px;
        color: #999999;
}
.style6 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24px; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div align="center">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="660" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="eeeeee"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font>
<blockquote>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font> <img
src="cid:part1.2C26982B.FC9C3B13@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class=""></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font size="-1">Click here to <a
href="http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter">UNSUBSCRIBE</a>.
( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter">http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter</a>
)</font><br>
</font> </p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Contents:</font></h3>
<h3> </h3>
<ol>
<li><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="+2"> Graphic Workshop Professional 9</font>
</font></b></font></b><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font size="-2">(new this weekend)</font></font></font></li>
<li><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="+2"> Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 </font>
<br>
</font></b></li>
<li><font size="+2"><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font></font></b></font><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Announcing
The Ultimate Screen Clock </font>9</font></b><font
size="+2"><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font></b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(second
notification)</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Announcing
PNG MNG Construction Set 9</font></b><font
size="+2"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(additional
notification)</font></font></font></li>
<li><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Announcing
GIF Construction Set Professional 9</font></b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font><font
size="-2" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(additional
notification)</font></font></font></li>
<li><b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Replying to
this Message, List Removal and Details</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></li>
</ol>
<br>
<br>
<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#aaaaaa"
width="643" height="189" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a
href="http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html"><img
src="cid:part4.277347B5.FEFAFE29@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="145"
hspace="10" height="201" border="0"></a>
<blockquote><b><font size="+1" face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="+2"><font size="+1"><font
size="+3">Not all green things are
good for the planet.<br>
<font size="+1"><br>
</font><font size="+2">Trust us.</font></font><br>
<br>
</font></font> </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#333333">Click on the book.</font></b></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 Revision 3 <br>
<font size="-1">(new this weekend)</font><br>
</font></h2>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-1"> </font><img
src="cid:part6.02A11164.975E5DF7@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="48" hspace="10" height="48"></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This
release adds a number of oft-requested features to
Graphic Workshop, now rendered possible by its
improved internal architecture. It also slaps down a
few bugs that crept into the initial upgrade.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among other
things, it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
shortcut in the View window to copy the current
image to the Windows <b>clipboard</b> </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">— hold
down the Shift key on your keyboard and
click on the i button in the tool bar.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug in the GWS Camera <b>screen capture</b>
that could prevent it from creating Graphic
Workshop thumbnails under some builds of
Windows.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
gradient bug in the <b>Textures</b> window.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
problem with the <b>Text tool</b> in the
Graphic Workshop icon editor.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Increases
the maximum font size for the <b>Text tool</b>
in the icon editor.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
shortcut to the View window to <b>save your
current image</b> back to its parent disk
file </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—
hold down the Shift key on your
keyboard and click on the Save as
button in the tool bar.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
all the <b>image import</b>
libraries for Graphic Workshop's
ancillary applications to improve
their performance and to deal with
more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
They're out there, lurking...<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Allows
those buttons in Graphic Workshop's
main application window tool bar
that actually process images <b>drag-and</b><b>-drop</b>
aware. You can now select one or
more files in a browser window and
drag them to the buttons for
Convert, Effects, Transform, View,
Delete... and several others... to
process them, rather than clicking.
More to the point, you can drag
files from other applications, such
as Windows Explorer, to the buttons
in question to process them as well.
The metaphors just never end...<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds
<b>keyboard</b><b> shortcuts</b> for
many of the functions in Graphic
Workshop's main application window.
Open its menus to see them all.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Implements
a number of bug fixes and
performance enhancements in <b>e-Paint
UltraLight</b> that came to light
while we were borrowing
functionality from it to build Alpha
Paint and Graphic Workshop's icon
editor.<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
</ul>
<p align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">__________________________________________________________</font><br>
</p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="+1"><b>From The Initial Posting</b></font><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 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.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the
new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
Professional 9, you'll find that it:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a <b>
Print Photographs</b> function. Print your
pictures two, four, nine or sixteen to a page in
eye-watering high resolution — with margins and
cut lines to trim them out so they look like
traditional paper photos. Load your color printer
with glossy paper to complete the effect. Sharing
a stack of paper photographs with your friends and
family is <i>way</i> less scary than handing
around an $800-dollar smartphone.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-004.png"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="242" hspace="10" height="136">Adds a <b>
Print Posters</b> function. Have your best
photographs </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">—</font> <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">or any other graphics you
like look of </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">— printed
over multiple pages. Cut along the included
guides, stick the resulting tiles together and
you can create posters of pretty much any size
you like... at least until you run out of
paper and sticky tape.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a <b>
Print Cube</b> function. Yes, we did a lot
with printers this time. Select six pictures
and Graphic Workshop will print them such that
they can be cut out and folded into a
three-dimensional photo-cube, complete with
glue tabs. Assembling one of these things
entails about five minutes of arts and crafts,
but they look really cool.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-005.png"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="113" hspace="10" height="132">Adds a
<b> Print Dodecahedron</b> function. Contrary
to that which is believed in some circles, a
dodecahedron is twelve-sided three-dimensional
solid, not an experimental particle
accelerator in Switzerland powered by extinct
flightless birds. Select twelve photographs
and Graphic Workshop will print them out such
that they can be cut and folded into a
twelve-sided desk ornament / yuletide tree
decoration / reduced attention-span cat toy.
In fairness, this one takes a few minutes
longer to assemble than the aforementioned
photo-cube, but it's cooler still.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds <b>Icon
Editor</b> UltraLight. A simplified version
of the Windows icon editor feature of our
Alpha Paint application, Icon Editor
UltraLight will create and modify icons with
full alpha transparency, and a rich selection
of tools. Enhance your Windows desktop with
your own icons, build favicons for your web
page and generally own the universe... or at
least, its clickable shortcuts.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-006.png"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="212" hspace="10" height="147">Enhances
the copyright of your photography </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—</font></font>
adds the option of <b>watermarking</b> your
photographs with <b>graphics</b> as well as
text through the batch mode and View window
Watermark functions. The graphic watermark
functionality supports alpha transparency, so
you can arrange for fancy text and logos,
translucent watermarks and innumerable other
effects.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
prompt to the <b>View</b> window to alert
you to <b> unsaved changes</b> made
through the Filters function... so you
don't right-click your flawlessly-refined
pictures into oblivion by mistake. Note
that this prompt can be disabled through
the View mode Configuration window if you
prefer to live dangerously.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Renames
the <b>Picture</b> menu in the View and
Crop windows to <b>File</b>, for those of
us with fingers that naturally Alt-F S and
Alt-F A to Save and Save As.</font></font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font><br>
<br>
</li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-007.png"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="200" hspace="10" height="156">Adds a
<b> Pipes texture</b> to the Textures and
Fractals window. Pipes generates intricate,
complex tangles of industrial plumbing with a
variety of color and style options. The
resulting graphics are wholly tile-able </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—
they can be used as Windows wallpaper,
web page backgrounds and other repeating
media. While we'd be the first to agree
that it would take cleverer minds than
ours to find a genuinely practical use
for Pipes, this is easily one of the </font>most
diverting features we've added to Graphic
Workshop in years.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the <b>File Open</b> window that appears
in Montage UltraLight, among others, to
display pictures with alpha transparency
correctly in its preview pane.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds
more color options to the <b>Channels</b>
filter in the View mode Filters window.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes
a memory leak in the View mode<b> Undo</b>.<br>
</font></font><br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug in the<b> multiple-color gradient selector</b>
that appears at various places around Graphic
Workshop itself and its ancillary
applications, such as Montage UltraLight. This
was a particularly insidious little menace,
which could crash its parent application if
the Manage Library window were opened, under
some builds of Windows.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Enhances
the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to further reduce the likelihood of Graphic
Workshop un-registering itself and thereafter
deciding that its key is already in use
because Windows 10 has silently updated
something. Hopefully this one nails the
problem until the end of time.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The <b>Graphic
Workshop</b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html"><img
src="cid:part11.435771E5.5E3082C0@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="74" hspace="10"
height="104" border="0"></a></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Printed
Reference</b> has been revised for the version</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 9 software, and
it includes sections for all the new functionality.
It's available thro</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">u</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">gh Amazon -- there's a link to it
at the Graphic Workshop web page, and you can access
it through the Get The Graphic Workshop Printed
Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu.</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the <b>
Graphic Workshop plugins</b> have been upgraded to
install in the version 9 software. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Be sure
to uninstall the version 8 plugins before you
install Graphic Workshop Professional 9. Failing
this, Graphic Workshop Professional 9 should
prompt you to do so automatically the first time
you run it.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You'll
need to download and install the new plugin
installers to run under Graphic Workshop
Professional 9.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you're
using a registered copy of the Graphic Workshop RAW
Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier
release of Graphic Workshop, note that your existing
registration key will work with the version 9 plugin
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—</font></font></font></font></font></font>
you won't have to buy it again.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in years
past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9
for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 8 and
optionally <b>copy your existing configuration</b>,
so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
your open browser windows will be preserved.<br>
</font></p>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional
9.</font>
<blockquote> <br>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download"><img
src="cid:part13.E5825C72.8A51554E@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 on or after April 1, 2018,
you're welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to
Graphic Workshop Professional 9. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we
invite you to upgrade to </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 for <b>half the current
new-user price</b>.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9, it
will determine which upgrade option applies to
your license.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.</font> <br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"><img
src="cid:part15.74C2589A.21AED1E2@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
You can access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html">no-cost
upgrade page</a> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.</font><br>
<br>
<br>
<p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.2C7B08D5.0DF00332@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
</font></font></font></font> </p>
<br>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Alpha
Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 4 <br>
</font></h2>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This release
addresses a number of issues in the initial version,
including:</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part19.4683DA57.5696A5F7@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48"></font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug in the Text tool.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Increases
the maximum font size available to the Text
tool. You can increase this further if you like
really honking big text </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">— <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">see
the discussion thereof <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in
the section of the Refe<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">rence
document that deals with the <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A</font>ext
tool.</font></font></font></font></font>
<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Updates the <b>image
import</b> libraries for to
improve their performance and to
deal with more weird-beard PNG
files. They're out there,
lurking...<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
</font> </font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">... and
several further nettlesome concerns.<br>
</font></li>
</ul>
<p align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">__________________________________________________________</font><br>
</p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<b>From the first release posting:</b><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Alpha
Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to
draw and manage graphics with full alpha transparency.
It will create:<br>
</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Professional
web page images</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Eye-catching
effects for social media</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Killer
graphics for PowerPoint presentations</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Titles
for videos</font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">...and pretty
much anything else that requires leading-edge art and
transparency.<br>
<br>
In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-009.png"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="246" hspace="10" height="205" border="0"></a></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Alpha Paint is
intuitive, easy to use and it won't require that you
get involved with complicated mathematics,
higher-order spatial dimensions or a manual that
requires more than one human lifetime to read. <br>
<br>
Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to
successfully operate a web browser should be able to
master Alpha Paint in under an hour.<br>
<br>
We invite you to download an evaluation copy of Alpha
Paint and try it out. Click on the huge blue button.<br>
<br>
</font>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part13.E5825C72.8A51554E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
If you'd like to share your experience with Alpha
Paint, or if you have any suggestions or you encounter
a problem with the initial release, please click on
this next huge blue button.<br>
</font><br>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html"><img
src="cid:part24.8B40C873.3C53E3F3@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.2C7B08D5.0DF00332@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"></font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Announcing
The Ultimate Screen Clock 9 </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="-1"><br>
(second notification)</font></font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2><img
src="cid:part27.1D1B702C.786CEB81@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48"></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The
Ultimate Screen Clock 9 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.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the
new features and enhancements to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock 9</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">, you'll find that it:</font><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/867-001.png"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="200"
hspace="10" height="146">Adds the indescribable
<b>Nightwing</b> analog clock style. There's a
picture of it to your right, but you really need
to see this intricate steampunk alternate-reality
mechanical nightmare on your desktop to fully
appreciate it. Nightwing comes in two sizes, with
your choice of hand colors. Be very afraid.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a <b>Transitions</b>
mode to the screen saver background selections.
Transitions serves to keep The Ultimate Screen
Clock's screen savers from getting old by changing
their backgrounds every few minutes. You can
configure which backgrounds are included in its
rotation, and how long it should sleep between
switches.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/867-002.png"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="264"
hspace="10" height="73">Adds the evocative <b>Odometer</b>
digital clock style. While several examples of the
Odometer style are illustrated here, we hasten to
point out that in real life, this one's animated.
Its digits roll up, just like in a classic car
from a forgotten epoch when everything ran on
vacuum lines and gears. The Odometer style comes
in two sizes, seven colors, three degrees of <font
size="-1">retro</font>, with and without a
bezel. There are a lot of permutations of it </font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—
many of them are available in the
extra styles library.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/867-003.png" alt=""
moz-do-not-send="true" class=""
vspace="10" align="right"
width="208" hspace="10" height="208">Replaces
the <b>Steampunk</b> screen saver
background tiles with pipe textures
generated by Graphic Workshop. Should
you not have checked out this unique
feature of Graphic Workshop, its pipe
texture tiles are woven of complex
industrial plumbing </font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">— made to look
like brass, in this case.
Once again, the example
illustrated here largely
fails to do justice to the
sprawling vista of all
this hardware encompassing
your entire desktop...
with a clock floating over
it, of course. <br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
all the <b>image import</b> libraries to improve
their performance and to deal with more
weird-beard PNG and JPG files. They're out there,
lurking...<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds the
<b>Base</b> clock style, a minimalist black and
white clock with no effects, enhancements or
aviatorial appendages, for users who just want to
know what time it is. For practical purposes, Base
is more or less the Reflection style with no
reflection.<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/867-004.png"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="282"
hspace="10" height="65">Adjusts the <b>memory
footprint</b> of </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">.</font> This allows it to
better get along with Windows' memory
management logic, load a bit quicker and run
more effectively and reliably, especially if
it finds itself on a system that's a bit
short of memory.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/867-005.png"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""
vspace="10" align="right" width="282"
hspace="10" height="65">Enhances the
sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b> to
further reduce the likelihood of </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
Set</font></font></font></font></font>
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding
that its key is already in use because Windows
10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
this one nails the problem until the end of
time.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in
years past, when you run </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 9 for the first time, it will
look for a previous installation of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 8 and optionally <b>copy your
existing configuration</b>, so you won't have to
set everything up by hand. <br>
</font></p>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button to download </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">The Ultimate Screen Clock</font> 9.</font>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part13.E5825C72.8A51554E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="239" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><br>
</h3>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're
welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font>9. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font> 8 prior to April 1, 2018,
we invite you to upgrade to </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> 9 for <b>half the current new-user
price</b>.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font>9, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.</font> <br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"><img
src="cid:part15.74C2589A.21AED1E2@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can
access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.</font><br>
</p>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.2C7B08D5.0DF00332@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
</font></font></font></font> <br>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Announcing
PNG MNG Construction Set 9 </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="-1"><br>
(additional notification)</font></font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part39.3CB59F6A.1D4AC8EB@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="48" hspace="10" height="48"></font></font></font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 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.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the
new features and enhancements to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
Set</font> 9, you'll find that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-003.gif"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="64" hspace="5" height="64">Exports MNG
animations as <b>in-line graphics</b>. This
allows animations to be embedded directly in the
HTML files of web pages, rather than referenced as
discrete GIF files. Pages so constructed load
faster, and are pretty much impervious to finding
that their animations have become lost or damaged.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
all the image import libraries to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG
and JPG files. They're out there, lurking...<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-001.gif"
alt="" vspace="10" align="right" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48">Adds a window to build
animated <b>throbbers</b> </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">— examples
of which are shown here. Additional styles are
available in the Throbbers window. Throbbers
are the graphics that indicate there will be a
brief delay before something happens. We
hasten to add that we didn't make up that
name.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the logic for the application status bar so </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG
</font>Construction Set doesn't go into vapor
lock during long processes.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-002.gif"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="48" hspace="10" height="48"></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adjusts
the <b>memory footprint</b> of </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
Set.</font> This allows it to better get
along with Windows' memory management logic,
load a bit quicker and run more effectively
and reliably, especially if it finds itself
on a system that's a bit short of memory.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Enhances
the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to further reduce the likelihood of </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
Set</font></font></font></font></font>
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding
that its key is already in use because Windows
10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
this one nails the problem until the end of
time.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the color management in Animation Wizard and
Combine. It's a ceaseless quest...<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the PNG MNG Construction Set document windows
to correctly display alpha-transparent
graphics.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the general level of aggressiveness in the
Supercompressor.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug that prevented several of the plugins from
accessing the multi-color gradient library. <br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in years
past, when you run </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction Set</font>
9 for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction Set</font>
8 and optionally <b>copy your existing
configuration</b>, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand. <br>
</font></p>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button to download </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction Set</font>
9.</font> <br>
<br>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part13.E5825C72.8A51554E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="239" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><br>
</h3>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction
Set 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to a
<b>no-cost upgrade</b> to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction </font>9.
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
Set </font> 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite
you to upgrade to </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction Set
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 9 for <b>half
the current new-user price</b>.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Construction
</font>9, it will determine which upgrade option
applies to your license.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.</font> <br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"><img
src="cid:part15.74C2589A.21AED1E2@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can
access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html">no-cost
upgrade page</a> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.<br>
</font><br>
<br>
</p>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Plugins</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins for </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction Set have
been upgraded to run with </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction
Set 9.<br>
<br>
If you have registered one or more plugins for a
previous release of </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction Set, your
existing registration keys are still valid. You'll
just need to download the version 9 installers for
your plugins.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins are at:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part48.31911551.C89255B7@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="0" align="left"
width="239" hspace="0" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
<br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>IMPORTANT:</b>
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 8 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 8 to replace them with the new
version 9 software, please be sure uninstall all
your version 8 plugins, and then uninstall GIF
Construction Set 8 and PNG MNG Construction Set
8. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG </font>Construction
Set 9 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it,
as this will save you lots of clicking later on.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We've also
created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once
you've downloaded the version 9 installers. Please
see the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032">the
plugin help page</a></font> <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">for assistance.</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.2C7B08D5.0DF00332@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
</font></font></font></font> </p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Announcing
GIF Construction Set Professional 9 <font size="-1">(additional
notification)</font><br>
</font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part39.3CB59F6A.1D4AC8EB@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="48" hspace="10" height="48"></font></font></font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 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.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the
new features and enhancements to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set</font> Professional 9, you'll
find that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-003.gif"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="64" hspace="5" height="64">Exports GIF
animations as <b>in-line graphics</b>. This
allows animations to be embedded directly in the
HTML files of web pages, rather than referenced as
discrete GIF files. Pages so constructed load
faster, and are pretty much impervious to finding
that their animations have become lost or damaged.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
all the image import libraries to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG
and JPG files. They're out there, lurking...<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-001.gif"
alt="" vspace="10" align="right" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48">Adds a window to build
animated <b>throbbers</b> </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">— examples
of which are shown here. Additional styles are
available in the Throbbers window. Throbbers
are the graphics that indicate there will be a
brief delay before something happens. We
hasten to add that we didn't make up that
name.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the logic for the application status bar so
GIF Construction Set doesn't go into vapor
lock during long processes.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/865-002.gif"
alt="" class="" vspace="10" align="right"
width="48" hspace="10" height="48"></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adjusts
the <b>memory footprint</b> of </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set.</font> This allows it to
better get along with Windows' memory
management logic, load a bit quicker and run
more effectively and reliably, especially if
it finds itself on a system that's a bit
short of memory.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Enhances
the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to further reduce the likelihood of </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set</font></font></font></font></font>
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding
that its key is already in use because Windows
10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
this one nails the problem until the end of
time.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the color management in Animation Wizard and
Combine. It's a ceaseless quest...<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the general level of aggressiveness in the
Supercompressor.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug that prevented several of the plugins from
accessing the multi-color gradient library. <br>
<br>
</font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in
years past, when you run<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"> GIF</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>Construction
Set</font> 9 for the first time, it will look for
a previous installation of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF</font>
</font>Construction Set</font> 8 and optionally <b>copy
your existing configuration</b>, so you won't have
to set everything up by hand. <br>
</font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction
Set 9. <br>
</font><br>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part13.E5825C72.8A51554E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="239" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><br>
</h3>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 8 on or after April 1,
2018, you're welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set </font> Professional 9. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set </font> Professional 8 prior
to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF Construction
Set </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> Professional 9 for <b>half the
current new-user price</b>.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run </font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set </font> Professional 9, it
will determine which upgrade option applies to
your license.<br>
</font></font></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.</font> <br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"><img
src="cid:part15.74C2589A.21AED1E2@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can
access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html">no-cost
upgrade page</a> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.<br>
</font><br>
<br>
</p>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Plugins</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins for GIF Construction Set
Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF
Construction Set Professional 9.<br>
<br>
If you have registered one or more plugins for a
previous release of GIF Construction Set, your
existing registration keys are still valid. You'll
just need to download the version 9 installers for
your plugins.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins are at:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part48.31911551.C89255B7@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" vspace="0" align="left"
width="239" hspace="0" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
<br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>IMPORTANT:</b>
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 8 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 8 to replace them with the new
version 9 software, please be sure uninstall all
your version 8 plugins, and then uninstall GIF
Construction Set 8 and PNG MNG Construction Set
8. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set 9 will offer to automatically
remove your old plugins for you the first time it
runs - go for it, as this will save you lots of
clicking later on.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We've also
created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once
you've downloaded the version 9 installers. Please
see the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032">the
plugin help page</a></font> <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">for assistance.</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.2C7B08D5.0DF00332@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
</font></font></font></font> </p>
<br>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Replying
to this Message, List Removal and Details</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part65.F4E3B6DD.7B808AFD@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
vspace="10" align="right" width="48" hspace="10"
height="48"></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This
message has been sent from an unmonitored address -
please do not reply to it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
To remove your address from this mailing list or to
change your address, please visit our web page at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html">http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html</a>
or click on the Unsubscribe button:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a
href="http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part67.1AC4A590.6C8D652C@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="239" height="46" border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Removal
requests will be processed instantly.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
If you have questions about this list or any Alchemy
Mindworks products, please contact us at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html">http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html</a>
or click on the button below:</font></p>
<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html"><img
src="cid:part24.8B40C873.3C53E3F3@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can
also contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and
by snail-mail at Alchemy Mindworks, L10 C8 Brunel,
Huntsville, ON P1H 2J3, CANADA.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you
don't see any graphics in this message, your mail
reader is probably blocking them. Please visit:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/graphics-in-update-list/">http://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/graphics-in-update-list/</a><br>
</font></font></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">for
assistance with resolving this issue.</font><br>
</p>
<p>Follow us on:</p>
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="200"
height="85" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><a
href="https://twitter.com/AlchemyMindwork"><img
src="cid:part73.1B45168C.75D32AEF@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
vspace="10" align="left" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48" border="0"></a></td>
<td valign="top"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/alchemy.mindworks.5"><img
src="cid:part75.7C292347.CC83B955@mindworkshop.com" alt="" class=""
vspace="10" align="left" width="48"
hspace="10" height="48" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#999999"><br>
Copyright (c) 1998 - 2018 Alchemy Mindworks. All
rights reserved. Use no hooks.</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<center> <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</center>
</body>
</html>