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<h3>Contents:</h3>
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<li><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1">Graphic Workshop Professional 9
Revision 6 </font></b></font><font size="-1">(new
this weekend)</font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font
size="+1"> GIF Construction Set
Professional 9 Revision 2<br>
</font></font></font></b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> Announcing Calendar Wizard 9</b></font><font
size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font
size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"> </font></font></font></font></font></font><font
size="-1"> (additional notification)</font><font
size="+1"><b> </b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> </b><font size="+1"><font
size="+1"><b>Announcing Dragonsbane by Steven
William Rimmer </b></font></font></font><font
size="-1">(second notification)</font><font
size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"> </font></font></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> Replying to this Message, List
Removal and Details </b></font><br>
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hspace="20" height="192" border="0"
align="right"></a><font color="#333333"><b><font
size="+3"><a moz-do-not-send="true"><font
size="+1"> </font></a></font></b></font><b><font
size="+1" color="#333333"><font size="+2"><font
size="+1"><font size="+2"><font
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</font></font></font></font></font></b><b><font
size="+1" color="#333333"><font size="+2"><font
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</font>Click on the book and you're
history.</font></font></b><b><font
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<h2>Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 6<font
size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2"> (new
this weekend)</font></font></font></h2>
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src="cid:part7.A1DEBB80.E2F3B11A@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></h2>
<p>Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated.
This release:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li> There's always one more bug... but this one seems
to be in Windows. Under some builds of Windows,
previous releases of Graphic Workshop would open
their Search windows if you tried to edit a folder
name and in so doing hit the backspace key. The
current update has been disabused of this behavior.<br>
</li>
</ul>
From last weekend's release:<br>
<ul>
<li>Addresses a number of issues with the Save and
Open <b>Browser Tabs</b> functionality. This update
also improves the speed with which large groups of
browser tabs can be opened.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the <b>PNG readers and writers</b> in
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to
address some security issues. We strongly urge all
users of Graphic Workshop to update to this version
to close these potential security holes.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Improves the <b>Crop</b> optimized view mode
image quality.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Improves the <b>thumbnail</b> memory management,
which will allow for faster thumbnail displays,
especially on systems with limited resources or lots
of other software running.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the file save logic of <b>Icon
Editor UltraLight</b> that could cause it to
spuriously prompt for a file name.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a potential crash in the <b>GWS Camera</b>
screen capture.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of user interface issues in <b>
Presentation Wizard UltraLight</b>... and updates
its example document.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Improves the color matching logic in <b>GIF
Construction Set UltraLight's</b> Animation
Wizard.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
Graphic Workshop Professional 8, we invite you to
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for <b>half
the current new-user price</b>.<br>
</p>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page. <br>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part10.6ECFA88D.DB420430@mindworkshop.com"
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<p> <img
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alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<h2>GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 2<br>
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src="cid:part13.5DC63C27.D663CB97@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></h2>
<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<p>GIF Construction Set Professional 9 has been updated.
This release:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><img src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/890-001.gif"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="80"
vspace="10" hspace="10" height="80" align="right">Adds
several additional <b>Throbber</b> styles. Select
Throbbers from the Edit menu if you've thus far
overlooked this feature. Throbbers are the
animations that appear when an on-line medium is
waiting for something to happen. GIF Construction
Set creates some truly unique ones... examples of
which appear here.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of minor issues in the <b>Throbbers</b>
window.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li><img src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/890-002.gif"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="100"
vspace="10" hspace="10" height="100" align="right">Fixes
a number of... dare we say bugs... from the initial
version 9 release.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the <b>batch processor</b> to improve its
performance and fix a memory leak... albeit a
somewhat theoretical one.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Stomps a color management problem in the <b>Transitions</b>
window — it now creates somewhat better animations
when it's confronted with source images having a
wide palette of colors.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li><img src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/890-003.gif"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="100"
vspace="10" hspace="10" height="100" align="right">Updates
the <b>PNG readers and writers</b> in GIF
Construction Set address some security issues. We
strongly urge all users of GIF Construction Set to
update to this version to close these potential
security holes.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the documentation.</li>
</ul>
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border="0"></a></p>
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<p><br>
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<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have previously registered or upgraded to GIF
Construction Set Professional 8, you can upgrade
to GIF Construction Set Professional 9 for half the
cost of a new single-user license.</p>
Click on the huge blue button below.
<p><br>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
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<p> <img
src="cid:part12.46390212.DFE2CA90@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<br>
<h2>Announcing <font size="+2"> Calendar Wizard 9</font><font
size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2">
(additional notification)<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></h2>
<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> </h2>
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<p>Calendar Wizard 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.)</p>
<p>Among the new features and enhancements to Calendar
Wizard 9, you'll find that it:</p>
<ul>
<li><img
src="cid:part23.D58BB6F1.B2B80343@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="false" class=""
width="202" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="160"
align="right">Adds a feature to print folding
wallet calendars, like the one to your right. Sized
to fit conveniently into a wallet — the name does
kind of give it away — Calendar Wizard's wallet
calendars can be customized with your choice of
colors, fonts and special days. Select Print Wallet
Calendar from the File menu.<b> </b><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>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>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug that could crash Calendar Wizard and
render select .CLN files unreadable under some
builds of Windows if one or more pictures were
deleted.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Traps wayward mouse clicks that could open the
month editing window if a file was opened by
double-clicking in the Open window... again, under
some builds of Windows if you happened to watch last
week's blood moon in proximity to a large dog.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Improves the logic for the Calendar Wizard
application status bar so Calendar Wizard 9 doesn't
go into vapor lock during long processes.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adjusts the <b>memory footprint</b> of Calendar
Wizard 9. 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>
</li>
<li>Enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation
logic</b> to further reduce the likelihood of
Calendar Wizard 9 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>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the documentation.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>As in years past, when you run Calendar Wizard 9 for
the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Calendar Wizard 8 and optionally <b>copy
your existing configuration</b>, so you won't have
to set everything up by hand. <br>
</p>
<br>
Click on the blue button to download Calendar Wizard 9.
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moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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<h3><br>
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<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
Calendar Wizard 8 on or after June 1, 2018, you're
welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to Calendar
Wizard 9. <br>
</p>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
Calendar Wizard 8 prior to June 1, 2018, we invite you
to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 9 for <b>half the
current new-user price</b>.<br>
</p>
<p>The first time you run Calendar Wizard 9, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.<br>
</p>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
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<h2>Announcing Dragonsbane by <br>
Steven William Rimmer<font size="+2"><font size="+2"><font
size="-2"> (second notification)</font></font></font></h2>
<h2><font size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2"> </font></font></font></h2>
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<p>We'd like to thank everyone who's e-mailed over the
past few years to ask when there would be a new novel
by Steven William Rimmer.</p>
<p>It's here, and it's available in e-book and paperback
editions through Amazon.<br>
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<p>Please click on the big blue button, below, to find
out more about it.<br>
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<p>We've been instructed to mention that there are no
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