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     Contents:


     1. GIF Construction Set Professional 4 Patch 32

     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 (Second Notification)

     3. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4  
        (Second Notification)

     4. 10 Percent Off Everything... Sort Of

     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     Don't let your children near this book!!!

         http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html

     (They'll probably delete it when they find it doesn't run on a PlayStation.)


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     1. GIF Construction Set Professional 4 Patch 32
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     This release of GIF Construction Set Professional 4:


     - Rewrites the Crop function, with an adjustable selection rectangle and
       a more informative and intuitive user interface. It's also somewhat 
       quicker.

     - Fixes a bug in the Display Panel function. It was obscure and remarkably
       well disguised, but we found it and... let's just say that things didn't
       end well for it.

     - Adds edit lists to several windows around the application, to remember 
       and reuse things typed into them.

     - Updates the plugin interface with several new features too technical to
       describe... 'cept they're necessary for the next update to the plugin
       library.

     - Addresses an issue in the driver for the GIF Construction Set document 
       windows, such that the Image block thumbnails update way quicker, and 
       with far more modest demand on your system resources.

     - Fine-tunes the Animation Wizard window.

     - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that the development
       people couldn't resist meddling with.

     - Updates the documentation.

     
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     GIF Construction Set Professional 4 is available for download at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download


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     If you're still using GIF Construction Set 3.0, you can still upgrade to 
     the new version 4 software for half price. Please see: 

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html 

     to upgrade.



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     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 (Second Notification)
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 4 has been updated. 

     
     This release:      

     - Rewrites the Crop function. It now supports a fully interactive 
       selection rectangle and an Apply to Batch option, to allow it to
       crop multiple images to the same dimensions in a single operation.
       It's also somewhat quicker.

     - Fixes a bug in the Supercompressor that prevented it from properly
       analyzing JPG files under some builds of Windows.

     - Adds JPG subsampling to the Supercompressor.

     - Adds a Shape Mask filter, to frame the subjects of your pictures with
       stars, octagons, star bursts and other geometric shapes.

     - Adds an Alpha Shadow filter to apply soft shadows to irregularly-
       shaped objects with alpha transparency.

     - Adds support for the MOZ JPEG plugin, discussed in the next section of
       this posting.

     - Updates the EXIF decoder to format a number of its fields more
       intuitively.

     - Adds EXIF field support to the titles printed by the Print, Watermark
       and Contact Sheet functions.

     - Adds drop down lists to remember the contents of fields typed into a 
       number of Graphic Workshop's user interface windows... and hopefully
       to save some keystrokes.

     - Fixes a bug in the SWF Flash writer.

     - Performs some cosmetic housekeeping on a number of Graphic Workshop's
       internal windows.

     - Improves the usual GDI and performance things that programmers just 
       can't resist noodling with.

     - Includes the usual library maintenance and security trolls and demons.

     - Updates the documentation.


     The world's most popular Windows image management package supports over
     seventy graphic formats, batch processing, a rich library of filters, 
     thumbnails, an intuitive user interface, lucid documentation and almost 
     enough sunflowers to cheer up an economist.

     You can download a copy from:


         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download


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     If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 3, we invite you
     to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things
     to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: 


         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html


     to upgrade.



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     3. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4
        (Second Notification)
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     The MOZ JPEG plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to write the smallest 
     possible JPG files.

     The functionality that drives the MOZ JPEG plugin was developed by 
     Mozilla, the creators of the exemplary Firefox web browser. It uses 
     sophisticated enhancements to conventional JPEG logic to create JPG 
     files that are typically about ten percent smaller than files written by 
     Graphic Workshop's internal JPG processor, with no loss of image quality.

     This plugin is available at no cost for users of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4. You'll need the latest release of Graphic Workshop, above,
     to support it. Please see the discussion of JPG files in the Formats 
     document of the Graphic Workshop manual for more about the MOZ JPEG 
     processor.

 
     Please see:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ

     to download this plugin.



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     4. 10 Percent Off Everything... Sort Of
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     At the moment, all our products are still priced in Canadian dollars. 
     The value of the Canadian dollar has slipped considerably of late 
     against most of the world's other currencies.

     If you're living outside the land of moose, flat beer and high taxes -
     in the United States, for example - you'll enjoy a meaningful discount
     on our products at the moment, because of the currency exchange rate.

     Plan on something like an effective 10 percent savings, depending on 
     where you are and how rapacious your bank is.

     As an example, Graphic Workshop, at $44.99 (CDN), would work out to
     about $40.00 (US) when it hits your credit card.

     We hasten to add that this situation probably won't stick around for 
     long.

     Our e-commerce page can be found at:

         https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html

     We should note that this pricing also applies to our products ordered 
     though our toll-free order line at 1-800-263-1138, and to our products
     paid by PayPal.



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