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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Contents:</font></h3>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7 </b><font
size="-2">(second notification)</font><b><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> PNG
MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3</b><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">(new this weekend)</font></font><b> </b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Replying
to this Message, List Removal and Details</b></font><font
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size="+2"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Tell only your best friends
about this novel.<br>
(Preferably several thousand of them.)</b></font></font><br>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 7 <br>
<font size="-2">(second notification)</font><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part6.186753C8.E2D6EC43@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right">Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 has been updated. Among its new and
updated features are:</font></p>
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<li><img
src="cid:part7.D46B2E99.DA82197D@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b>Application Security:</b> In
our continuing determination to ensure that Graphic
Workshop presents no opportunities for cybercretins
to exploit it, we've done a line-by-line review of
its source code to find any potential buffer
overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the
current release and nail this </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">vulnerability
</font>before it nails you.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Thumbnail
Pre-cache: </b>Adds a per-browser option to
enable thumbnail pre-caching only when a browser is
top-most. <br>
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Thumbnail pre-caching speeds up Graphic Workshop's
browsers considerably, but it can have a substantial
memory footprint for browsers looking at a lot of
graphics. This refinement allows you to have it
automatically enabled only for the browser you're
working with at the moment.<br>
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Right-click in a browser, select Thumbnails and
select Pre-cache Thumbnails When Active to fire up
this option.<br>
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src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/949-001.png"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="217"
vspace="10" hspace="20" height="167"
align="right">Textures and Fractals:</b> Adds
Scratch textures to the Graphic Workshop Textures
and Fractals window. Wild, unleashed and as chaotic
as you want to be, Scratch suggests bad urban art
applied with cheap spray paint, a dystopian
landscape viewed from space by an aging
reconnaissance satellite or a really badly-behaved
cat. <br>
<br>
The example animation to your right, comprised of
several variations on one Scratch texture,
represents but a fraction of its capabilities.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>View
Mode Shortcuts:</b> </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Hold down Ctrl in Graphic
Workshop's View mode and click on the Info button in
its tool bar to quickly open the Crop window.<br>
<br>
The View mode tool bar's button tips have been
expanded to include their alternate functions
enabled holding down the Shift and Ctrl keys. If
you'd like to learn all their secrets, hover your
mouse over each button for a moment.<br>
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<li><b>Animated PNG:</b> <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Addresses an issue in the
transparency management of the animated PNG
viewer.</font><br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Performance:</b>
Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop
meddling with.</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
Updates the documentation.</font><font
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If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional
10 yet, you might want to review a more extensive list
of its <a href="http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html"
moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">new
functionality and enhancements</a>.<br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9, we invite you to <b>upgrade
to </b><b>Graphic Workshop Professional 10</b>
for half the single-user license price.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.<br>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#ffffff"><font
size="-2"> <br>
</font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" color="#ffffff"><font size="-2">(new this
weekend)</font></font></h2>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Update:</b>
A number of minor issues that crept into the
previous release </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">— which was pretty much a complete
rewrite of the application </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">— have
been addressed. We'd like to urge all users
pf PNG MNG Construction Set </font></font></font></font>to
update, lest you be driven mad by these things. <br>
<br>
Our understanding is that few if any health insurers
are prepared to accept claims of madness caused by
software.<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Animated
PNG:</b> Several minor compatibility issues in the
animated PNG support have been stomped.<br>
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</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WebP
Transparency:</b> Nails a problem that prevent
WebP animations with transparent elements from
displaying correctly under some builds of Windows.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Image
Editors:</b> The animation format image editor
windows have been hardened to manage image size
changes wrought by their respective Paint buttons
correctly.<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Performance:
</b>Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you missed the
previous update for PNG MNG Construction Set 10, we
invite you to check out its <a
href="http://doc.mindworkshop.com/948.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">new and
enhanced functionality</a> — it totally rocks.</font></font><font
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Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG
Construction Set 10. <br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> If you have
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