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              <h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Contents:</font></h3>
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                <li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font
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                      Workshop Professional 12 Revision 14 </b> <font
                      size="1">(additional notification)</font></font></li>
                <li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font
                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b> PNG MNG
                      Construction Set 12 Revision 5</b></font><font
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                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>GIF
                      Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 5</b></font><font
                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"> </font></font><font
                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"><font
                        face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">(second
                          notification)</font></font> </font></font></li>
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                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"> </font></font><font
                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>e-Paint 12
                      Revision 4 </b></font><font
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                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"><font
                        face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">additional</font></font>
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                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>About Upgrades
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                      size="1">(</font></font><font
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                        face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">additional</font></font>
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                    face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b><font size="1"> </font>Replying
                      to this Message, List Removal and Details</b></font></li>
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                              (They turn into instant bestsellers when
                              that happens.)<br>
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                  Professional 12 Revision 14</font></h2>
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              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">Graphic Workshop Professional 12
                  has been updated.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">In this release:<br>
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                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Open
                      With:</b> The Open With item in the right-click
                    menu of Graphic Workshop's browsers will let you
                    open any picture with your choice of external
                    applications. Open With has been rewritten to make
                    it way easier to use. <br>
                    <br>
                    Open With now automatically includes those ancillary
                    applications installed with Graphic Workshop that
                    know how to open graphics </font><font
                    face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                        face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—</font></font>
                    e-Paint UltraLight, GIF Construction Set UltraLight,
                    Icon Editor UltraLight and so on -- as well as any
                    stand-alone Alchemy Mindworks applications you have
                    on your system.<br>
                    <br>
                    It will also preserve your configuration options
                    between major version changes, and track updates to
                    other Alchemy Mindworks software.<br>
                    <br>
                    It now includes ZIP and RAR archives, which can be
                    opened in Graphic Workshop's Archive Manager from
                    its browsers.<br>
                    <br>
                    Note that the new Open With logic will ignore any
                    previous Open With items you've configured in
                    earlier releases of Graphic Workshop.<br>
                    <br>
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                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Edit EXIF:</b>
                      Graphic Workshop's Edit EXIF metadata editor has
                      been updated to deal with a number of hitherto
                      unsupported tag types. It also displays a
                      thumbnail in its prompt window, should you attempt
                      to edit the EXIF data in a JPG or PNG document
                      that doesn't turn out to have any.<br>
                      <br>
                    </font></font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Transform:</b>
                      The Transform window has been updated, and several
                      user interface issues have been addressed. In
                      addition, it will now display its example graphics
                      based on the Graphic Workshop document you've
                      right-clicked on, or the first item in a batch,
                      rather than the traditional little red sports car.<br>
                      <br>
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                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Effects:</b></font><font
                    face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> The Effects
                      window has been also updated, and several user
                      interface issues have been addressed — pretty much
                      the same ones as turned up in Transform, above. It
                      too will now display its example graphics based on
                      the Graphic Workshop document you've right-clicked
                      on, or the first item in a batch, rather than the
                      aforementioned traditional little red sports car.</font></font><font
                    face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                      <br>
                    </font></font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Move and
                        Copy: </b>A cosmetic issue in Move and Copy
                      that caused its document count text to be
                      truncated under some configurations of Windows has
                      been addressed.<br>
                      <br>
                    </font></font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Function
                        Window Thumbnails:</b> The thumbnail images that
                      appear in Graphic Workshop's function windows,
                      such as Transform and Effects, above, have been
                      enhanced to more accurately represent pictures
                      with alpha transparency, large original dimensions
                      and paletted images.<br>
                      <br>
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                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
                      UltraLight Screen Clock:</b> The style selector
                    window in The UltraLight Screen Clock now
                    temporarily disables the clock display while its
                    open, allowing the style list to be substantially
                    quicker and more responsive.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Presentation
                        Wizard UltraLight:</b> An issue that caused
                      Presentation Wizard UltraLight's documents to
                      display incorrect flashing cursors under some
                      configurations of Windows has been stomped.</font><br>
                    <br>
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              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">If you haven't experienced Graphic
                  Workshop Professional 12 as yet, please see its <a
                    href="http://doc.mindworkshop.com/1028.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>
                  <br>
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              <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
                blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional
                12.</font>
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              <h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
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                        Workshop Professional 12</b> for half the
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                    <font color="#808080">The graphic of the woman with
                      a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under
                      license from StockFresh.</font></font><br>
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              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">PNG MNG Construction Set 12 has
                  been updated.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">In this release:</font></p>
              <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
              <ul style="line-height: 130%;">
                <li><img src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/gban-impo.png"
                    alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="32"
                    vspace="5" hspace="20" height="117" border="0"
                    align="right"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                    sans-serif"><b>Memory Leak:</b> A decidedly
                    pernicious memory leak in PNG MNG Construction Set's
                    folder interface under some configurations of
                    Windows has been stomped. Left to its own devices,
                    it could crash the application. <br>
                    <br>
                    We'd like to urge all users of PNG MNG Construction
                    Set to update to this release as quickly as
                    possible.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WebP:</b>
                    The WebP library interface has been improved. In
                    addition, the current library version number can now
                    be found in the Credits list of PNG MNG Construction
                    Set's About window. The current release is 1.2.2.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>User
                      Interface:</b> Updates a number of the more
                    frequently used user interface windows, most notably
                    with thumbnail frames to visually confirm that
                    you're about to resize, flip, process or otherwise
                    enhance the document you intended.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Supercompressor</b>:
                    Addresses a problem in the Supercompressor window
                    that could disable redundancy compression for
                    otherwise compressible MNG animations under some
                    configurations of Windows.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Transparency:</b>
                    Fixes a bug that could corrupt the display of
                    transparent elements in some MNG animations.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <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>
              </ul>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                  Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG
                  Construction Set 12.<br>
                  <br>
                </font> </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part1.HUIWe3Cx.UTOsgQUP@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
                        width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <br>
              <h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">If you have registered or upgraded
                  a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 11, we
                  invite you to <b>upgrade to </b><b>PNG MNG
                    Construction Set 12</b> for half the single-user
                  license price.<br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"> <br>
              </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part2.16W1LOJE.aBBmWwbQ@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
                        border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p style="line-height: 100%;"> <font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#c0c0c0"><br>
                    <font color="#808080">The background of the banner
                      graphic above, a detail from a picture by Jimi
                      Backhouse, is used under license from
                      freeimages.com. The ink well icon for PNG MNG
                      Construction Set was created by Eugen Buzuk of
                      icondrawer.com, and is used under license.</font></font><br>
                </font> </p>
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            <td valign="middle" height="60" bgcolor="ffffff"><br>
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            <td style="background:
              linear-gradient(135deg,#444444,#888888,#444444);padding:
              20px 10px 0px 20px;" valign="top" height="30"
              bgcolor="444444">
              <h2 style="text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #000, 1px -1px 0 #000,
                -1px 1px 0 #000, 1px 1px 0 #000;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif" color="#ffffff">GIF Construction
                  Set 12 Revision 5<br>
                </font></h2>
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            <td style="padding: 20px; border-style: solid; border-color:
              #333333; border-width: 1px;" valign="top" height="26"
              bgcolor="eeeeee">
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><br>
                <a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                    src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/gban-gcsp.png"
                    alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="620"
                    height="141" border="0"></a></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">GIF Construction Set 12 has been
                  updated.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">In this release:</font></p>
              <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
              <ul style="line-height: 130%;">
                <li><img src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/gban-impo.png"
                    alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="32"
                    vspace="5" hspace="20" height="117" border="0"
                    align="right"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                    sans-serif"><b>Memory Leak:</b> A decidedly
                    pernicious memory leak in GIF Construction Set's
                    folder interface under some configurations of
                    Windows has been stomped. Left to its own devices,
                    it could crash the application. <br>
                    <br>
                    We'd like to urge all users of GIF Construction Set
                    to update to this release as quickly as possible.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WebP:</b>
                    The WebP library interface has been improved. In
                    addition, the current library version number can now
                    be found in the Credits list of GIF Construction
                    Set's About window. The current release is 1.2.2.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>User
                      Interface:</b> Updates a number of the more
                    frequently used user interface windows, most notably
                    with thumbnail frames to visually confirm that
                    you're about to resize, flip, process or otherwise
                    enhance the document you intended.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <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"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
                    </font>Updates the documentation.</font></li>
              </ul>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                  Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction
                  Set 12.<br>
                  <br>
                </font> </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part1.HUIWe3Cx.UTOsgQUP@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
                        width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <br>
              <h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">If you have registered or upgraded
                  a registration for GIF Construction Set 11, we invite
                  you to <b>upgrade to </b><b>GIF Construction Set 12</b>
                  for half the single-user license price.<br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"> <br>
              </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part2.16W1LOJE.aBBmWwbQ@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
                        border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p style="line-height: 100%;"> <font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#c0c0c0"><br>
                    <font color="#808080">The background of the banner
                      graphic above, a detail from a picture by Fabibel,
                      is used under license from freeimages.com. The
                      chess piece icon for GIF Construction Set
                      Professional was created by Eugen Buzuk of
                      icondrawer.com, and is used under license.</font></font><br>
                </font> </p>
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          <tr align="left">
            <td valign="middle" height="60" bgcolor="ffffff"><br>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td style="background:
              linear-gradient(135deg,#444444,#888888,#444444);padding:
              20px 10px 0px 20px;" valign="top" height="30"
              bgcolor="444444">
              <h2 style="text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #000, 1px -1px 0 #000,
                -1px 1px 0 #000, 1px 1px 0 #000;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif" color="#ffffff">e-Paint 12 Revision
                  4<br>
                </font></h2>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td style="padding: 20px; border-style: solid; border-color:
              #333333; border-width: 1px;" valign="top" height="26"
              bgcolor="eeeeee">
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><br>
                <a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                    src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/gban-epnt.png"
                    alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="620"
                    height="141" border="0"></a></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">e-Paint 12 has been updated.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">In this release:</font></p>
              <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
              <ul style="line-height: 130%;">
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Tool
                      Palette:</b> The e-Paint tool palette window has
                    been updated. A number of user interface items have
                    been improved. The most notable of these is the
                    sample brush window, with hitherto only displayed
                    the left half of its brushes under some
                    configurations of Windows. <br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Drawing
                      Engine:</b> The e-Paint drawing engine has been
                    updated to improve its performance.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
                        face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                          face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Gradient:</font></font></b><b><font
                        face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                          face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></b><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                        face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Gradient
                        selection window that turns up in various places
                        in </font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                      sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                        sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                          sans-serif">e-Paint</font> has been updated to
                        address a problem that prevented the center
                        coordinates of a gradient from being set to
                        negative values under some configurations of
                        Windows.</font></font><b><font face="Helvetica,
                        Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                          sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                            sans-serif"><b><br>
                            </b></font></font></font></b> <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Grid:</b>
                    The Grid window now includes an actual-size example
                    of your current grid setting, so you can see what it
                    will really look like.<br>
                    <br>
                  </font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                        face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Reset:</b>
                        If you encounter configuration issues with
                        e-Paint that defy reason and exhaust profanity,
                        you can now return it to its "just installed"
                        configuration state by holding down the Ctrl key
                        on your keyboard and running it. You'll be
                        prompted to confirm that you'd like to reset its
                        configuration.<br>
                        <br>
                      </font></font></font></li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Install:</b>
                      An issue with the 64-bit installer for e-Paint
                      that could cause it to install the application
                      incorrectly under some configurations of Windows
                      has been nailed.<br>
                      <br>
                    </font> </font> </li>
                <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                      face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
                    </font>Updates the documentation.</font></li>
              </ul>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                  Click on the blue button to download e-Paint 12.<br>
                  <br>
                </font> </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part1.HUIWe3Cx.UTOsgQUP@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
                        width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <br>
              <h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">If you have registered or upgraded
                  a registration for e-Paint 11, we invite you to <b>upgrade
                    to </b><b>e-Paint 12</b> for half the single-user
                  license price.<br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"> <br>
              </p>
              <blockquote>
                <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                    Arial, sans-serif"><a
                      href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                        src="cid:part2.16W1LOJE.aBBmWwbQ@mindworkshop.com"
                        alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
                        border="0"></a></font></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"> <font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#c0c0c0"><br>
                    <font color="#808080">The banner graphic above, a
                      detail from Girl with Tattoos, is by Sarah
                      Wissink, and is used under license from
                      freeimages.com.</font></font><br>
                </font> </p>
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              linear-gradient(135deg,#444444,#888888,#444444);
              border-style: solid solid none solid; border-color:
              #333333; border-width: 1px; padding: 20px 10px 0px 20px;"
              valign="top" height="30" bgcolor="444444">
              <h2 style="text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #000, 1px -1px 0 #000,
                -1px 1px 0 #000, 1px 1px 0 #000;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif" color="#ffffff">About Upgrades</font></h2>
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              #333333; border-width: 1px;" valign="top" bgcolor="eeeeee">
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><br>
                <a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/updatey.html"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
                    src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/gban-note.png"
                    alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="620"
                    height="141" border="0"></a> </p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif"><br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">Users of Graphic Workshop
                  Professional 12 who install the current update will
                  see a message window offering a no-cost upgrade to the
                  version 14 software, to be released this fall, if they
                  upgrade now.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">Much the same message will appear
                  for this week's update to PNG MNG  Construction Set
                  12.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">As the in-application notification
                  message window is by its nature a bit terse, we wanted
                  to explain this process in greater detail.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">All Alchemy Mindworks' software
                  includes our legendary upgrade policy. If you register
                  or update an existing registration any time in the
                  half year or so before we release a major upgrade,</font><font
                  face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> you'll be welcome
                  to a free upgrade to the next major release. </font><font
                  face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">That's "free" as
                  in "no money down, no interest or carrying charges and
                  no payments until the end of time."</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">As we're well into the no-cost
                  upgrade window for several of our applications, you
                  can upgrade now and enjoy a painless, cashless and
                  pretty much instantaneous upgrade to version 14 this
                  fall... hence the aforementioned message window.<br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">We hasten to add that the foregoing
                  also applies to users of any version 11 Alchemy
                  Mindworks software, right now and up until the version
                  14 applications are released.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">If you miss the upgrade window when
                  you install the latest updates, please visit our <a
                    href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
                    target="_blank"
                    style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">upgrade page</a>. Use the
                  Software Upgrades section of our e-commerce page to
                  get the reduced price.</font></p>
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              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">As someone will unquestionably ask,
                  the major version number of our software is poised to
                  jump from 12, where it's at now, to 14 this fall
                  because our experience has shown us that a substantial
                  number of our users are uncomfortable installing
                  anything with the number 13 in its version. We're not
                  here to judge.</font></p>
              <p style="line-height: 130%;"><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">Astute users of Graphic Workshop
                  Professional 12 will have observed that its revision
                  number skipped revision 13 a few weeks ago, for just
                  this reason.</font></p>
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