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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"><b><font size="+1">Graphic Workshop
Professional 9 Revision 11 </font></b></font><font
size="+1"><b><font size="-2">(new this
weekend)</font></b></font> </b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> PNG MNG Construction Set 9
Revision 3</b></font><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2"> (second notification)</font></b></font>
</b></font> </b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> GIF Construction Set
Professional 9 Revision 3 </b></font><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="-2">(additional
notification)</font></b></font></b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2"> <font size="+1">Security
Vulnerabilities and Software Updates </font></font></b></font></b></font><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="-2"><font
size="+1">— </font></font></b></font></b><b><b>Read
This!</b></b><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2"><br>
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<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"> </font>Replying
to this Message, List Removal and Details </b></font><br>
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<h2>Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 11<font
size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2"> (new
this weekend)</font></font></font></h2>
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Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This
release: <br>
<ul>
<li>Improves the performance of the View mode
high-speed window update logic even more, so it's
quicker than ever. No physical laws are being broken
by Graphic Workshop, but a few of the ones that only
scientists understand might be getting bent on
occasion.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>It has come to our attention that some Windows
screen drivers choked on the new high-speed View
window in Graphic Workshop when they were asked to
display really large pictures. When this happened,
the View window displayed a blank screen. While we
can't actually fix this problem — as it's not part
of Graphic Workshop per se — we have built a
work-around for it. If the high-speed display logic
gets into trouble, it now automatically falls back
to the old compatible update mode, which, while
slower, isn't affected by this issue.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Under some builds of Windows, the Graphic Workshop
View window and Graphic Workshop itself would
disappear for an instant when the View window
closed. This was particularly noticeable for systems
running Windows Aero themes... which, yes, is most
of them. Note the use of the past tense in this
description — it's history.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The View mode Zoom function now tracks the center
of the image being displayed as you zoom in or out,
which helps cut down on the need to mouse around as
you change magnification levels.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the JPEG library for all the Graphic
Workshop ancillary applications to use
higher-quality image reading. The exact nature of
this improvement is touched on in the next
paragraph. Be strong.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Allows the LIB JPEG Turbo DCT to be selected.
Okay... grab something solid. A discrete cosine
transform, or DCT, is the arithmetic underpinning of
JPEG compression, and if your eyes just glazed over
having read the foregoing sentence, be comforted in
knowing that this will be last time the subject will
come up. The blazingly fast LIB JPEG Turbo JPEG
reader introduced in the previous update to Graphic
Workshop allows for two DCT options. The fast one is
fast and the not quite as fast one is more accurate,
and results in somewhat more faithful imaging. In
practical terms, we couldn't measure the speed
difference in house, and for this reason, Graphic
Workshop defaults to using the more accurate DCT
option. If you really want to get every extra
microsecond out of the LIB JPEG Turbo processor –
and especially if you're sitting in front of a
fairly slow computer – you can speed up JPEG reads a
bit by enabling the Turbo JPG Fast DCT option in
Setup.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Filters window Resize pane that
occasionally estimated the size of a resized image
incorrectly, depending on how the rounding errors
fell.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Zoom window that caused it to
fall into optimum view mode if you tried to zoom in
past 1600 percent in some circumstances. Nothing bad
happened, but it was a bit weird.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Carbon Adjusted theme that
caused it to miscalculate the vertical size of the a
browser file pane by one pixel, and in so doing
leave one row of blank thumbnails. In that Carbon
Adjusted was specifically written to avoid wasting
screen real estate like this, it was an issue.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the documentation.<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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<br>
<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>
<br>
<b>Older software: </b>If you're running a registered
older version of Graphic Workshop — Graphic Workshop 4
or better — we'd like to urge you in strongest
possible terms to upgrade to version 9, so the
security holes in the old JPEG reader don't risk
letting the slime of the Internet access your
computer. (See the fourth section of this posting for
more about JPEG vulnerabilities.)<br>
</p>
<p>For the duration of this update cycle — for the next
week, at least — we invite you to<b> upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 9</b> for <b>half
price</b>, even if the reduced-price upgrade window
is no longer valid for your version. <br>
</p>
<p>Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being
applicable to version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page —
your Graphic Workshop upgrade order will be accepted.<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:part9.F40DE6BD.DA80D9F5@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a><br>
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<br>
<h2>PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 3<font size="+2"><font
size="+2"><font size="-2"> (second notification)</font></font></font></h2>
<h2><font size="-2"> </font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
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alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></h2>
<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<p>PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been updated. This
release:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Updates the <b>JPEG functionality</b> in PNG MNG
Construction Set to be blindingly, shockingly <b>fast</b>...
and possibly violate a few laws of physics. <br>
<br>
<img
src="cid:part13.BED543EA.506DF6B1@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="5"
height="111" align="right">The new JPEG reader
also addresses a number of potential <b>security
holes</b> which could have allowed a
maliciously-crafted JPG file to execute arbitrary
code and compromise a computer running previous
releases of PNG MNG Construction Set. <br>
<br>
We urge everyone running PNG MNG Construction Set to
update to this release really, really soon — some
time yesterday would be ideal.<br>
<br>
If you're running a version of PNG MNG Construction
Set <b> older than version 9</b>, please see the <b>Up<font
color="#333333">grades</font></b><b><font
color="#333333"><font size="-1"> </font></font></b>section,
below.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the PNG MNG Construction Set <b>image
handling libraries</b> with our new anti-tampering
logic to make them more secure and resistant to
cyber-cretins.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Nails a bug that could cause the thumbnails in PNG
MNG Construction Set's document windows to be
created incorrectly when an animation was generated
by 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>
<li>Updates the documentation.</li>
</ul>
<br>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></p>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
PNG MNG Construction Set 8, we invite you to upgrade
to PNG MNG Construction Set 9 for <b>half the current
new-user price</b>.<br>
<br>
<b>Older software: </b>If you're running a registered
older version of PNG MNG Construction Set — PNG MNG
Construction Set 4 or better — we'd like to urge you
in strongest possible terms to upgrade to version 9,
so the security holes in the old JPEG reader don't
risk letting the slime of the Internet access your
computer. <br>
</p>
<p>For the duration of this update cycle — for the next
week, at least — we invite you to<b> upgrade to PNG
MNG Construction Set 9</b> for <b>half price</b>,
even if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer
valid for your version. <br>
</p>
<p>Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being
applicable to version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page —
your PNG MNG Construction Set upgrade order will be
accepted.<br>
</p>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page.
<p><br>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></p>
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<br>
<h2>GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 3 <font
size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2">(additional
notification)</font></font></font></h2>
<h2><font size="-2"> </font></h2>
<h2> <img
src="cid:part19.9EA5B7CA.32DCE03C@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>Updates the <b>JPEG functionality</b> in GIF
Construction Set to be blindingly, shockingly <b>fast</b>...
and possibly violate a few laws of physics. <br>
<br>
<img
src="cid:part13.BED543EA.506DF6B1@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="5"
height="111" align="right">The new JPEG reader
also addresses a number of potential <b>security
holes</b> which could have allowed a
maliciously-crafted JPG file to execute arbitrary
code and compromise a computer running previous
releases of GIF Construction Set . <br>
<br>
We urge everyone running GIF Construction Set to
update to this release really, really soon — some
time yesterday would be ideal.<br>
<br>
If you're running a version of GIF Construction Set
<b> older than version 9</b>, please see the <b>Up<font
color="#333333">grades</font></b><b><font
color="#333333"><font size="-1"> </font></font></b>section,
below.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the GIF Construction Set <b>image
handling libraries</b> with our new anti-tampering
logic to make them more secure and resistant to
cyber-cretins.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Nails a bug that could cause the thumbnails in GIF
Construction Set's document windows to be created
incorrectly when an animation was generated by
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>
<li>Updates the documentation.</li>
</ul>
<br>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></p>
</blockquote>
<br>
<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
GIF Construction Set 8, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction Set 9 for <b>half the current
new-user price</b>.<br>
<br>
<b>Older software: </b>If you're running a registered
older version of GIF Construction Set — GIF
Construction Set 4 or better — we'd like to urge you
in strongest possible terms to upgrade to version 9,
so the security holes in the old JPEG reader don't
risk letting the slime of the Internet access your
computer. <br>
</p>
<p>For the duration of this update cycle — for the next
week, at least — we invite you to<b> upgrade to GIF
Construction Set 9</b> for <b>half price</b>, even
if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer valid
for your version. <br>
</p>
<p>Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being
applicable to version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page —
your GIF Construction Set upgrade order will be
accepted.<br>
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Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page.
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<h2>Software Vulnerabilities and Security Updates <b><b>—
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From time to time, we release updates to Alchemy
Mindworks' software to address security issues. We're in
the midst of doing so now. <br>
<br>
These things can seem a bit scary. To help explain what
they entail, we've added a post to our blog that gets
into them in detail. No long words or funny math appear
therein... we promise.<br>
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We urge all our users to click on the big blue button
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