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1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3**
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2. * Announcing Animation Workshop 10 *(second notification)**
3. * Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 10* (additional notification)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:
* Redesigns the batch Identify Mystery Files window to allow its
contents to be sorted by name, type, size and date. This makes it a
lot easier to locate the files you'd like to identify. Should you
have missed the batch Identify Mystery Files window thus far, hold
down the Shift key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery
Files from the Graphic Workshop Professional 10 File menu.
* Updates the color selection windows that appear in Graphic Workshop
and all its ancillary applications to include an editable
hexadecimal color value field. This allows colors to be directly
copied and pasted into web page HTML documents, and between
applications that support this notation.
* Improves the performance of the Identify Mystery Files window when
it's confronted with a WebP document... of which there appear to be
more with each passing second.
* Adds a Windows File Explorer emulation mode to Graphic Workshop's
drag and drop functionality — it can be enabled in the Setup →
Browser → Drop Options field. With Windows Emulation selected,
dragging files between folders on the same drive will move them,
dragging files between drives will copy them and holding down the
Ctrl key when you drag and drop files will copy them no matter where
they're going.
* Updates Archive Manager so a Wait window appears when files are
dropped into a ZIP archive. It also fine-tunes the user interface of
its various File Open and File Save windows.
* Further improves the new validation logic to reduce the likelihood
of Graphic Workshop unregistering itself due to silent Windows
upgrades. We hasten to add that since the release of Graphic
Workshop Professional 10, this has occurred precisely zero times.
* Fixes a bug in the Ultralight Screen Clock that could cause some of
the animated styles to display a white rectangle in place of the
leading digit for one second at the top of each hour under some
builds and configurations of Windows.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional 10 yet, you might
want to review a more extensive list of its new functionality and
enhancements <http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html>.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing Animation Workshop 10
(second notification)
We've enhanced functionality of Animation Workshop, built out its WebP
support for breathtaking true-color web page animations, improved its
performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows
10. (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.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Animation Workshop 10, you'll
find that it:
* Builds out the *WebP* support for Animation Workshop. You can now
import still images from WebP documents, and import WebP animations.
The WebP export functionality has been refined to create
better-looking final animations. Should you be unfamiliar with WebP,
it's a graphic document format created by Google to replace PNG, JPG
and GIF. It offers lossless and lessy compression, true color
imaging and full alpha transparency. Best of all, it's supported by
all the current web browsers.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
* Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by Animation Workshop to the
latest release. This addresses several potential security and image
quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd like
to take this opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the wild that can
crash older JPEG software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
nasty, code on your computer.
* Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google, to
create more attractive lossy files and otherwise improve reality as
we know it.
* Adds a hex field to the color selection windows, allowing colors to
be copied and pasted between other applications... most notably,
whatever you use to manage web pages.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
the likelihood of Animation Workshop un-registering itself and
thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because Windows
10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails the
problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that last year too, but
Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd anticipated.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run Animation Workshop 10 for the first time,
it will look for a previous installation of Animation Workshop 9 and
optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
9 on or after May 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Animation Workshop 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
9 prior to May 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop
10 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 10, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 10
(additional notification)
We've added new functionality to the world's most capable leading-edge
animator, improved its performance, and generally refined it to better
get along with Windows 10. (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.)
Among the new features and enhancements to PNG MNG Construction Set 10,
you'll find that it:
* Adds a window to create Photo Stack animations... an example of
which can be seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add your
pictures, graphics, banners or other elements to your web page or
social media as an animation that suggests a collection of paper
photographs being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler, it
would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have bears in your
house, which isn't wholly desirable.
* Fixes an install issue that rendered the animation plugin installers
incapable of finding PNG MNG Construction Set after a major upgrade
under some configurations of windows.
* Adds a hex field to the color selection windows, allowing colors to
be copied and pasted between other applications... most notably,
whatever you use to manage web pages.
* Improves the Crop window to make it more responsive, and to fix
several issues that caused its cursor to flash and generally make a
nuisance if themselves.
* Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by PNG MNG Construction Set
to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and
image quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd
like to take this opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the wild that can
crash older JPEG software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
nasty, code on your system.
* Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google, to
create more attractive lossy files and otherwise improve reality as
we know it.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
the likelihood of PNG MNG Construction Set un-registering itself and
thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because Windows
10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails the
problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that last year too, but
Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd anticipated.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 prior to April 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set 10, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been
upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG
MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 10 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
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*IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 9
or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 9 or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 to replace them with the new version
10 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 9 plugins, and
then uninstall GIF Construction Set 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set 9.
GIF Construction Set 10 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 10 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
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