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        Contents:

 1. * Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 10*
 2. * Announcing Pagan Daybook 10* (second notification)**
 3. * Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5***(additional
    notification)
 4. * Announcing Presentation Wizard 10 *(additional notification)**
 5. ***Newsletter Archive *(second notification)
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    Announcing Screeen Saver Construction Set 10


Screen Saver Construction Set 10 has been released. Among its new and 
enhanced features are:


  * *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
    pernicious memory issue which afflicits the internal configuration
    logic, the ANIMAL language and the themes used by Screen Saver
    Construction Set. Left to its own devices, this one could crash the
    application or screen savers created by it, and potentially
    compromise your Windows security.

  * *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Screen
    Saver Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses several
    potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users
    of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file
    vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under
    rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Screen
    Saver Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses a
    potential security issue.

  * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Screen
    Saver Construction Set to address a theoretical bug that could have
    introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported and
    saved graphics.

  * *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear
    in Screen Saver Construction Set 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.

  * *Validation:* Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to
    reduce the likelihood of Screen Saver 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.

  * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.

  * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.


Click on the blue button to download Screen Saver Construction Set 10.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>



      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver 
Construction Set 9 on or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome to a 
*no-cost upgrade* to Screen Saver Construction Set 10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver 
Construction Set 9 prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to 
Screen Saver Construction Set 10 for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run Screen Saver 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>




    Announcing Pagan Daybook 10
    (second notification)


Pagan Daybook 10has been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:

  * *Timeline: *Adds a *Timeline window*, a browseable history of the
    past few hundred years. Right-click in Pagan Daybook and select Days
    → Timeline to experience it.

    We hasten to add that the contents of the Timeline window are
    editable, should you discover that you prefer your perception of
    history to ours. Timeline also lends itself to being re-purposed —
    you can replace its somewhat global history with your family's
    history, the history of your newly-restored classic Jag or the
    history of your sock collection.

  * *Screen Saver: *Adds logic to the *screen saver background* manager
    to allow full-screen background graphics to be optionally resized
    rather than tiled, so they appear without seams on displays with
    unusual dimensions — laptops being the most likely suspects.

  * *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Pagan
    Daybook to the latest release. This addresses several potential
    security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our
    software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file
    vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under
    rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Pagan
    Daybookto the latest release. This addresses a potential security
    issue.

  * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Pagan
    Daybook to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced
    unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported graphics.

  * *Screen Saver:* Adds a Setup option to suppress Pagan Daybook's
    animation when it's displaying itself as a screen saver, for use on
    slower systems running Windows 10.

  * *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear
    in Pagan Daybook 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.

  * *Validation:* Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to
    reduce the likelihood of Pagan Daybook 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.

  * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.

  * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.


Click on the blue button to download Pagan Daybook 10.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html>



      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 9 on 
or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Pagan 
Daybook 10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 9 
prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 10 
for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run Pagan Daybook 10, it will determine which upgrade 
option applies to your license.

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




    Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5
    (additional notification)


Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this release:


  * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Graphic
    Workshop and its ancillary applicationsto the latest release. This
    addresses a potential security issue. We urge all the users of our
    software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file
    vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under
    rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  * *Quick Thumbnails:* Adds support for the Windows thumbnail cache,
    this being where Windows stores the thumbnails it uses in File
    Explorer. When Graphic Workshop creates thumbnails for graphics that
    Windows has previously cached, it can now do so at something
    approaching light speed by accessing the cache. It's impressive to
    watch.

    See the discussion of Thumbnails in the Graphic Workshop Reference
    document for more about this.

    This feature requires Windows 10.

  * *Zoomed Thumbnails:* Adds more support for the Windows thumbnail
    cache, in this case to Graphic Workshop's Zoomed Thumbnails display
    mode. By default, it will use cached Windows thumbnails in Zoomed
    mode, allowing for laser-sharp graphics.

    Especially if your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to
    experience this one. Right-click in a Graphic Workshop browser,
    select Thumbnails from the sub-menu that appears and make sure Zoom
    Windows Thumbnails is enabled. Right click and select View Mode from
    the sub-menu that appears and select Zoomed Thumbnails.

    This feature requires Windows 10.

  * *Animated PNG:* Adds viewing support for animated PNG documents. If
    you double-click on one, it will play in Graphic Workshop's View
    window, much as do WebP and GIF animations. The animation that's
    bouncing around to your right — assuming that whatever you're using
    to read this posting supports animated PNG — is a suitable example.
    Right click on it and save it to try Graphic Workshop's animated PNG
    support.

    There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog
    <http://blog.mindworkshop.com/uncategorized/a-quick-introduction-to-animated-png/>.

  * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by Graphic
    Workshop's ancillary applications — e-Paint UltraLight, Montage, GIF
    Construction Set UltraLight and so on — to address a theoretical bug
    that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of
    imported and saved graphics.

  * *Ripples Texture: *Adds Ripples to the Graphic Workshop Textures and
    Fractals window. Create a faint disturbance in a tranquil pond, or
    crank it up to maximum and visit an alternate universe during lunch.

  * *Paste:* Addresses an issue in the Paste From Clipboard item of
    Graphic Workshop's Edit menu that could cause it to select the
    discrete Save As window option even if it was configured not to.

  * *Multiple Select:* Improves the multiple image selection window to
    handle alpha graphics correctly.

  * *Progress Window:* Improves the Progress window so its scroll bar
    doesn't appear until a batch completes, which is both less
    distracting and slightly quicker.

  * *Alpha Backgrounds:* Improves the management of alpha backgrounds
    throughout the application, and adds a color button in Setup to set
    the default alpha background, for graphics that don't specify one.

  * *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.

  * *Documentation:* 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, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop 
Professional 10* for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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


The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain 
by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons 
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball.png>. 



    Announcing Presentation Wizard 10
    (dditional notification)


Presentation Wizard 10 has been updated. In this release:


  * *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by
    Presentation Wizard to the latest release. This addresses several
    potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users
    of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file
    vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under
    rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  * *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by
    Presentation Wizardto the latest release. This addresses a potential
    security issue.

  * *Image Libraries:* Updates all the image libraries used by
    Presentation Wizard to address a theoretical bug that could have
    introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported and
    saved graphics.

  * *Color Selection:* Updates the color selection windows that appear
    in Presentation Wizard 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.

  * *Validation:* Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to
    reduce the likelihood of Presentation Wizard 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.

  * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.

  * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.


Click on the blue button to download Presentation Wizard 10.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html>



      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation 
Wizard 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Presentation Wizard**10* for 
half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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




    Newsletter Archive
    (additional notification)


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

The Alchemy Mindworks web page now includes a chronological archive of 
our recent newsletter postings. If you'd like to check out the new 
features for one of our version 10 applications — or if you missed a few 
postings — we invite you to visit the archive.

Click on the big blue button, below, or access the archive through the 
Alchemy Mindworks web page — click on the Support tab and then on the 
Newsletter Archive link.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/newsarchive.html>



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