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<h3>Contents:</h3>
<ol>
<li><font size="+1"><b> GIF Construction Set
Professional 9 Revision 4<br>
</b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"> Graphic Workshop Professional 9
Revision 12 </font></b></font></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><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2">)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> Animation Workshop 9 Revision
2 </b></font><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2">(</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="-2"><font
size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font
size="-2">additional
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<li><font size="+1"><b> Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 </b></font><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="-2">(additional
notification)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="-2"><font
size="+1"> New UK Server</font><br>
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<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"> </font>Replying
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size="+3" color="#333333"><font size="+2">Read
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<h2>GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4<font
size="-2"><br>
</font></h2>
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src="cid:part6.EB27965B.32CB5BFB@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>Adds an Export to WebP option to the GIF
Construction Set File menu. Wait 'til you see what
this puppy can do.<br>
<br>
The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported
by the current versions of all the major web
browsers, it replaces GIF with a twenty-first
century animation standard. It allows for true-color
imaging, alpha transparency, millisecond-resolution
timing and optional lossy compression for those
occasions when your animations just get out of
control and you really need them to be smaller.<br>
<br>
Best of all, WebP animations can be added to a web
page using the same HTML coding as would be the case
for a GIF file.<br>
<br>
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our <a
href="http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/"
moz-do-not-send="true">blog</a>.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard,
and various other functions in GIF Construction Set
that open still graphics.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds optional alpha image masking to Animation
Wizard, so you can import graphics with full alpha
transparency and not have their backgrounds look
like salad.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes several bugs in the document window Drag 'n
Drop functionality.<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>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part8.6E65D085.D8EE4806@mindworkshop.com"
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>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page. </p>
<br>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part10.008604AD.72AC3653@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
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src="cid:part12.0138880F.1C25BE74@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<h2><br>
</h2>
<h2>Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 <font
size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2"> </font></font></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></h2>
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src="cid:part13.B489668A.D05C7D59@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
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Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This
release: <br>
<ul>
<li>Adds <b>WebP support</b> — Graphic Workshop can
now open and write to .webp graphics. Should you be
unfamiliar with WebP, it's a graphic and animation
document format developed by Google. It supplants
JPEG, PNG and GIF on the web, enjoying better image
quality, compression, color depth and timing
accuracy. It's supported by the current releases of
all the major web browsers. It looks amazing in
on-line content, such as web pages and social media.<br>
<br>
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our <a
href="http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/"
moz-do-not-send="true">blog</a>.<br>
<br>
This one's cool enough to shatter penguins.<br>
<br>
There's an overview of WebP in the Formats document
of Graphic Workshop's manual. WebP is available in
all the functionality of Graphic Workshop that
opens, views, writes and processes graphic files.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds <b>WebP support</b> to the <b>e-Paint
UltraLight</b>, <b>Presentation Wizard UltraLight</b>,
<b>GWS Camera</b> screen capture and <b>Montage</b>
applications that install with Graphic Workshop.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds <b>optional paint applications</b> to the
browser right-click Paint and Paint and Save As
items, and to the Paint item in the File menu of the
View window. Hold down the Ctrl key when you select
one of these options to have your graphic opened in
Alpha Paint if it has alpha transparency, or in
e-Paint or e-Paint UltraLight if it doesn't. See the
discussion of Paint in the Reference document of
Graphic Workshop's manual for more about this
feature. It's all in the first blue box.<br>
<br>
We hasten to add that Alpha Paint may misbehave in
this capacity under some versions of Windows — it's
fixed in the next release of Alpha Paint.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the <b>Save As</b> window for Graphic
Workshop's <b>View </b>mode to handle file type
changes more intuitively.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the file history list of the <b>GWS
Camera</b> screen capture.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses a number of issues in the Archive
Manager associations window.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes several bugs in <b>Icon Editor UltraLight</b>
Transform filters — Flip, Rotate and Resize — that
could make selected elements disappear under some
builds of Windows. Needless to say, we frown on them
doing this.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds an option to the Icon Editor UltraLight
Rectangle Selection tool to allow it to copy
selected areas, rather than cutting them. Hold down
the Shift key when you click to dismiss the tool.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste
menu item that caused it to enable and disable at
inappropriate moments.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste
function that saw it pasting paletted images with
wildly incorrect colors under some builds of
Windows.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Graphic Workshop <b>animated
GIF</b> view window that caused the application to
vanish momentarily when the window closed... under
some builds of Windows or in a room with one or more
large flightless birds. Mostly the former.<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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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part8.6E65D085.D8EE4806@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46" border="0"></a>
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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>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page. <br>
</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part10.008604AD.72AC3653@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a><br>
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src="cid:part12.0138880F.1C25BE74@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<p> </p>
<h2>Animation Workshop 9 Revision 2<font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="-2">
(additional notification)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></h2>
<h2><font size="+2"><font size="+2"><font size="-2"> </font></font></font></h2>
<h2><font size="-2"> </font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2><img
src="cid:part20.1889F67B.2C8951B6@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></h2>
<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<p>Animation Workshop 9 has been updated. This release:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Adds <b>WebP support</b> — Animation Workshop can
now export to .webp animations. Should you be
unfamiliar with .webp, it's a graphic and animation
document format developed by Google. It supplants
GIF animations, enjoying better compression, color
depth and timing accuracy. It's supported by the
current releases of all the major web browsers. It
looks amazing in web pages.<br>
<br>
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our <a
href="http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/"
moz-do-not-send="true">blog</a>.<br>
<br>
This one's cool enough to shatter penguins.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates the <b>JPEG functionality</b> in
Animation Workshop to be blindingly, shockingly <b>fast</b>...
and possibly violate a few laws of physics. <br>
<br>
<img
src="cid:part22.66BF2ADE.9CB62672@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 Animation Workshop. <br>
<br>
We urge everyone running Animation Workshop to
update to this release really, really soon — some
time yesterday would be ideal.<br>
<br>
If you're running a version of Animation Workshop <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 Animation Workshop <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>Updates the rendering engine.<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>
<blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
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Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.6E65D085.D8EE4806@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></font></a></p>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
Animation Workshop 8, we invite you to upgrade to
Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop — Animation
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. <br>
</p>
<p>For the duration of this update cycle — for the next
week, at least — we invite you to<b> upgrade to
Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop upgrade order will be
accepted.<br>
</p>
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page.
<p><br>
</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part10.008604AD.72AC3653@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></p>
<p><br>
</p>
</blockquote>
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src="cid:part12.0138880F.1C25BE74@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<br>
<h2>Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 <font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="-2">(additional
notification)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2><font size="-2"> </font></h2>
<h2> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part28.58196D20.D198DC52@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></font></h2>
<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<p>Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Adds Alpha Shadows — have your graphics cast
realistic soft shadows as alpha objects that blend
with whatever your pictures appear over. See the
discussion of alpha shadows in the Alpha Paint
Reference document for more about how they work.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes several bugs in the Transform filters —
Flip, Rotate and Resize — that could make selected
elements disappear under some builds of Windows.
Needless to say, we frown on them doing this.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds an option to the Rectangle Selection tool to
allow it to copy selected areas, rather than cutting
them. Hold down the Shift key when you click to
dismiss the tool.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Paste menu item that caused it
to enable and disable at inappropriate moments.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug in the Paste function that saw it
pasting paletted images with wildly incorrect colors
under some builds of Windows.<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>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.6E65D085.D8EE4806@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></font></a></p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<p> <img
src="cid:part12.0138880F.1C25BE74@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="640" height="4"><br>
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<h2>New UK Server</h2>
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alt="" moz-do-not-send="false" class="" width="102"
vspace="10" hspace="10" height="95" align="right">Our
server in the United Kingdom recently changed hosting
companies. For the most part, you'll probably never
notice its new digs even if you use it regularly to
download our software installers.<br>
<br>
You can download installers from our UK server by
clicking on the last of the red DOWNLOAD buttons at our
various software pages — this will be DOWNLOAD 2 or
DOWNLOAD 3, depending on where you are.<br>
<br>
All this having been said, there appears to have been a
propagation issue with the installer for the new Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 release last weekend. If you
downloaded what purported to be the revision 12 software
from our UK server and found yourself looking at
revision 11, please accept our apology. <br>
<br>
The UK server now has the correct release — we invite
you to download it again if needs be.<br>
<br>
<br>
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