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<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b> Graphic Workshop Professional
11 Revision 11 </b><font size="-2">(new this
weekend) </font></font></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b> Text Effects Plugins #2, #3,
#4 and #5 Revision 2 </b><font size="-2">(additional
notification) </font></font></li>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 11<br>
<font size="-2">(new this weekend)</font></font></h2>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Graphic Workshop Professional 11
has been updated to address a few additional issues.
In this release:<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Watermark:</b>
A timing issue in the browser-based Watermark window
that could cause typing to appear very slowly in its
Edit field under some configurations of Windows has
been resolved.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Neon
Filter:</b> The Neon filter in Graphic Workshop's
View mode Filter window now handles mega-pixel
images more uniformly.<br>
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</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Filter
Interface:</b> A bug in the Filters window user
interface that could prevent the preview-image
scroll from working — or just lock the window
entirely, depending on your Windows configuration —
has been stomped.<br>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">From the previous release, last
weekend:<br>
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<li><img
src="cid:part7.1CF842A1.27644A85@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b>JPEG Security:</b> A potential
security issue in Graphic Workshop's JPEG library
interface has been identified and addressed. <br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Oil
Painting Filter:</b> A memory leak in the Oil
Painting filter that tended to crash Graphic
Workshop when large digital camera images were
transformed into motel art therein has been fixed.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>FIT
Format:</b> A bug in the FIT file reader that
failed to free some system resources when FIT files
were read has been stomped.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Find in
Browser:</b> The Find in Browser window can now be
closed by clicking outside it.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Thumbnail
Pre-cache:</b> The Graphic Workshop thumbnail
pre-cache logic attempts to guess which thumbnails
you're going to screen over next, when Graphic
Workshop first boots up, and load them before
they're needed to allow for smoother scrolling. The
logic that drives the pre-cache has been enhanced to
make it more intuitive... or more likely to guess
correctly.<br>
<br>
In addition, you can now adjust the delay time
between pre-cached thumbnail fetches to fine-tune
the pre-cache functionality to your computer. See
the discussion of Thumbnail Pre-caching in the
Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Filter
Thumbnails:</b> A resource issue that could crash
Graphic Workshop's Filter window if its
previous-iteration thumbnails were clicked on has
been addressed.<br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Average:</b>The
Average filter in Graphic Workshop's Filters window
hitherto could ignore the setting of its Wide
Aperture option under some configurations of
Windows. It now pays attention all the time.<br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Filter
Preview:</b> The Filter window preview was
disposed to refusing to update correctly under some
configurations of Windows. This has been nailed.<br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Alpha
Filters:</b> Some combinations of Filters in
Graphic Workshop's Filter window could cause final
graphics to be displayed entirely in shades of red
and black if alpha transparency was involved. This
has been fixed.<br>
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</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>e-Paint
UltraLight:</b> The Filter interface for e-Paint
UltraLight has been updated to address a number of
crashes.<br>
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<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>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
Updates the documentation.<br>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">If you haven't experienced Graphic
Workshop Professional 11 as yet, please see its <a
href="http://doc.mindworkshop.com/976.html"
style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">initial release announcement</a>
for a list of all its new and enhanced functionality.<br>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Click on the blue button to
download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">If you have registered or
upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10, we invite you to <b>upgrade to </b><b>Graphic
Workshop Professional 11</b> for half the
single-user license price.<br>
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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">Text Effects #2, #3, #4 and #5 Plugins
Revision 2<br>
<font size="-2">(additional notification)</font></font></h2>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">The Text Effects #2, #3, #4 and #5
animation plugins for GIF Construction Set
Professional 11 and PNG MNG Construction Set 11 have
been updated. In this release:<br>
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<ul style="line-height: 130%;">
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>User
Interface:</b> Updates plugin user interfaces to
make them cleaner and more intuitive.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Textures:
</b>Fixes some intermittent crashes when the texture
fill options were used under some configurations of
Windows 10.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Fountains:</b>
Addresses a problem with the plugins accessing their
fountain libraries under some builds of Windows, and
updates the default fountain libraries with an
expanded palette of entries.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Code
Review:</b> We've completed a line-by-line review
of the underlying source code of the Text Effects
plugins. This has resulted in a smaller, faster
applications... and we dispatched a number of
stealthy bugs, memory leaks and security issues.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Performance:</b>
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that software developers never really stop
meddling with.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
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for the Text Effects plugins — no matter how old they
are — they'll work in the latest versions. You will
need version 11 of <b>GIF Construction Set
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Construction Set Professional or PNG MNG Construction
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to the current releases for <b>half the single-user
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