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<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>Graphic
Workshop Professional 15 Revision 5 </b> <font
size="1">(new this weekend</font></font><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">)</font></font></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><b>Announcing Screen
Saver Construction Set 15 </b><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> <font size="1">(second
notification</font></font><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">)</font></font>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><b>Announcing
Presentation Wizard 15</b><b> </b><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> <font size="1">(additional
notification</font></font><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1">)</font></font>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><font
face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>Replying to
this Message, List Removal and Details</b></font></li>
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Professional 15 Revision 5</font><br>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
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Arial, sans-serif"><b>Graphic Workshop Professional 15</b>
has been updated.</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>In this
release:</b></font></p>
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<li><font
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sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Information Window:</b> The Graphic
Workshop document information</font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> window has
been updated to make it easier to read, and to
allow for longer comments.<br>
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</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>MP3:</b>
The Graphic Workshop MP3 writer has been addressed
to nail a problem that could cause it to write
invalid metadata under some configurations of
Windows.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Paint:
</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Paint
and Paint and Save as items in the browser
right-click menus have been disabled for file
types that can't be painted, such as video and
sound files.</font></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
</font></li>
<li><b>Destination:</b> The Destination window has
been redesigned to improve its performance, and to
move the audio file types to their own column.<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Filters:</b>
A number of issues with the View mode Filters
window have been addressed..<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Preview:
</b>A cosmetic issue in the middle-click preview
window of Filters has been fixed</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Performance:</b>
Several performance improvements have been
implemented throughout the application.<br>
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
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we recommend that you install the <a
href="https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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Mindworks trusted certificate</a> and disable the
<a
href="https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;">Smart
Screen blue window of doom</a> prior to
downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.<br>
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<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 Graphic Workshop 14, we invite
you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15
for <b>half the current new-user price</b>.<br>
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color="#808080">The graphic of the woman with a
digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under
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Construction Set 15<br>
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Screen Saver Construction Set 15</b> has
been released.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">We've added new functionality to Screen Saver
Construction Set, improved its performance and
generally refined it to better get along with Windows
10 and 11. (We hasten to add that it still performs
admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way
back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Among the new features and enhancements to
Screen Saver Construction Set 15, you'll find...</font></p>
<ul style="line-height: 130%;">
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><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></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>PNG Security:</b>
The Screen Saver Construction Set PNG library has
been updated to the latest release to address
several potential security and performance issues.
We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users
of </font><font
face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Screen Saver Construction Set</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really
bad people in it.<br>
<br>
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.40.<b><br>
<br>
</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>JPEG:</b>
The Screen Saver Construction Set JPEG library has
been updated to version 3.0.1 to address a
security issue. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Screen Saver
Construction Set</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release.</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WebP:</b>
The </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Screen Saver
Construction Set</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> WebP library
has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a
security issue. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Screen Saver
Construction Set</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Memory Leak:</b> A resource memory issue
that could cause </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Screen Saver
Construction Set</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"> to terminate unexpectedly has been
addressed. </font></font></font></font></li>
</ul>
<ul style="line-height: 130%;">
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Themes:</b>
An issue in the theme interface common to most
Alchemy Mindworks software that could leak resources
and occasionally crash the applications in question
has been mercilessly stomped.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WIX
Installer:</b> A bug in the version field of the
installer creation logic has been addressed.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Private
Documents:</b> Screen Saver Construction Set
optionally can create its documents without storing
creator information. Enable the Save Without Creator
Information option in Setup.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Drawing
Engine:</b> A number of metrics and details have
been improved in the Presentation drawing engines
for Screen Saver Construction Set.<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 Screen Saver
Construction Set 15.<br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">If you haven't done so previously,
we recommend that you install the <a
href="https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/"
target="_blank"
style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Alchemy Mindworks trusted
certificate</a> and disable the <a
href="https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/"
target="_blank"
style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Smart Screen blue window of
doom</a> prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks
software.</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><br>
</font> </p>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html"
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alt="Download now" class=""
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<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 Screen Saver Construction Set 14 on
or after August 1, 2023, you're welcome to a <b>no-cost
upgrade</b> to Screen Saver Construction Set 15. <br>
</font> </p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 14
prior to August 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to
Screen Saver Construction Set 15 for <b>half the
current new-user price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">The first time you run Screen Saver
Construction Set 15, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. </font>
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You can access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/scskey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"
style="color:#0b6cda;text-decoration: underline;">no-cost
upgrade page</a> directly by clicking on the foregoing
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<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
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sans-serif"><b>Presentation Wizard 15</b> has been
released.</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">We've added new functionality to Presentation
Wizard, improved its performance and generally refined
it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (We
hasten to add that it still performs admirably under
earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows
XP, if you're feeling retro.)</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 130%;"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Among the new features and enhancements to
Presentation Wizard 15, you'll find...</font></p>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Speed:</b>
A quicker and more efficient architecture to make
the most of the latest releases of Windows.<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><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></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>PNG Security:</b>
The Presentation Wizard PNG library has been updated
to the latest release to address several potential
security and performance issues. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of </font><font
face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Presentation Wizard</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really
bad people in it.<br>
<br>
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.40.<b><br>
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</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>JPEG:</b>
The Presentation Wizard JPEG library has been
updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security
issue. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Presentation
Wizard</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release.</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WebP:</b>
The </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Presentation
Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> WebP library
has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a
security issue. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Presentation
Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to update to
this release.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Memory Leak:</b> A resource memory issue
that could cause </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Presentation
Wizard</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"> to terminate unexpectedly has been
addressed. </font></font></font></font></li>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Themes:</b>
An issue in the theme interface common to most
Alchemy Mindworks software that could leak resources
and occasionally crash the applications in question
has been mercilessly stomped.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>WIX
Installer:</b> A bug in the version field of the
installer creation logic has been addressed.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Private
Documents:</b> Presentation Wizard optionally can
create its documents without storing creator
information. Enable the Save Without Creator
Information option in Setup.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Drawing
Engine:</b> A number of metrics and details have
been improved in the Presentation drawing engines
for Presentation Wizard.<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>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b>
</font>Updates the documentation.</font></li>
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