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<h3>Contents:</h3>
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<li><font size="+1"><b> Graphic Workshop Professional
9 Revision 14 </b></font><font size="-2"><b>
(new this weekend)</b></font><font size="+1"><b><br>
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<li><font size="+1"><b> Alpha Paint + Icon Editor
Revision 9</b></font><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
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(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>
</b></font> </b></font> </b></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><b> PNG MNG Construction Set 9
Revision 4 </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><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="-2">)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font>
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<li><font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"> </font>Replying
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<h2>Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 14 <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">(new this weekend)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></h2>
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Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This
release: <br>
<ul>
<li>Updates the <b>WebP support</b> for Graphic
Workshop. Several format issues in the initial
release have been addressed, and the WebP reader's
performance has been improved for Graphic Workshop
and all the ancillary applications that support
WebP.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Updates Graphic Workshop so it will appear in the
Windows Explorer or File Explorer <b>Open With</b>
window for most of the file types it knows how to
open. <br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds a trap to<b> GWS Camera</b> to prevent
multiple instances of the screen capture from
running concurrently... which was confusing.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Fixes a bug that could cause the <b>Help</b> in
the <b>Filters</b> and <b>Textures</b> windows to
fail to open under some builds of Windows and with
some web browsers.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Improves the <b>Prompt for Filename</b> option of
the GWS Camera screen capture.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds controls to the<b> e-Paint UltraLight</b> and
<b>Montage UltraLight</b> Save As Windows to allow
the WebP and JPEG write parameters to be adjusted
when you save a document.<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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<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>
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Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page. <br>
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<h2>Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 8 <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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Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:<img
src="cid:part12.51AF6379.F5EC050D@mindworkshop.com"
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<ul>
<li>Adds WebP support — create, open and edit
leading-edge WebP web page graphics. <br>
<br>
The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported
by the current versions of all the major web
browsers, it replaces PNG and JPEG with a
twenty-first century graphics standard. It allows
for true-color imaging, alpha transparency and
optional lossy compression for those occasions when
you really need your graphic files to be smaller.<br>
<br>
Best of all, WebP graphics can be added to a web
page using the same HTML coding as would be the case
for a JPG file.<br>
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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>Fixes a bug that caused Alpha Paint to misbehave
when it was called from another application under
some builds of Windows. This resolves the issue of
it failing to open when it was summoned by holding
down the Ctrl key and using the Paint functions of
Graphic Workshop and PNG MNG Construction Set.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Addresses several more of minor issues in the
settings pane.<br>
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</li>
<li>Improves the drawing engine's performance.<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>
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<h2>PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4<font size="+1"><font
size="+2"><font size="-2"> </font></font><b><font
size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><font size="-2">(additional
notification)</font></b></font></b></font></b></font></h2>
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<h2><font size="-1"> </font></h2>
<p>PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been updated. This
release:</p>
<p><br>
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<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Adds WebP support to PNG MNG Construction Set —
which changes everything.<br>
<br>
PNG MNG Construction Set can open and save WebP
graphics and animations. Because WebP files can be
used directly in web pages and other on-line media,
you can now create web animations with full 24-bit
color, millisecond timing and true alpha
transparency, transcending the limitations of
traditional GIF animations.<br>
<br>
It also supports both lossless and user-definable
lossy compression — the latter being comparable to
what JPEG does — to allow you to squeeze your
animations into very small files if you need to.<br>
<br>
You can add WebP files to your web pages using the
same coding as would be used for GIF animations.<br>
<br>
In that the user interface and functionality of PNG
MNG Construction Set is pretty much identical to
that of GIF Construction Set, current users of GIF
Construction Set can be up to speed with the state
of the art in web page animation in substantially
less time than it's taken you to read this.<br>
<br>
WebP animations totally blew us away when we started
using them — you need to experience them as well.<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>
(To reduce unnecessary wear on the Help buttons in
PNG MNG Construction Set — and more to the point, to
save you digging through its manual — we hasten to
note that you can create WebP documents from your
new or existing MNG animations by selecting Save As
from the File menu, and then Selecting WebP as the
file type in the Save As window that opens.)<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard,
and various other functions in PNG MNG Construction
Set that open still graphics.<br>
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</li>
<li>Adds <b>optional paint applications</b> to the
Paint buttons in PNG MNG Construction Set. Hold down
the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button to
have your graphic opened in Alpha Paint if it has
alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or the Graphic
Workshop e-Paint UltraLight if it doesn't. See the
discussion of Paint in the Reference document of PNG
MNG Construction Set's manual for more about this
feature. It's all in the second 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>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>
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<h3>Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG
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