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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
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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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