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1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 6**
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2. * Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 10*(second notification)
3. * Announcing Pagan Daybook 10* (additional notification)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 6
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this release:
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic, the browser window navigation panes and the themes used by
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications. Left to its own
devices, this one could crash these applications and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the current release
and nail this vulnerability before it nails you.
* *View Mode Mystery Files: *Adds functionality to Graphic Workshop's
View mode to automatically run Identify Mystery Files if you attempt
to view a picture and it proves to be unreadable. This is a common
issue with graphics downloaded from the Internet, which not
infrequently arrive with incorrect extensions. The View logic will
prompt you if you encounter such a file, and optionally rename it
and proceed to open it in View.
This also works if you associate Graphic Workshop with one or more
of the file types it knows how to open, and subsequently
double-click on one in another application, such as File Explorer.
* *Quicker Zoomed Thumbnails:* Improves the Zoomed Thumbnails display
mode. The previous Graphic Workshop update added support for
high-resolution graphics thumbnails. This one integrates them into
the browser window caching logic, so the zoomed thumbnail mode is
substantially faster and more responsive.
Especially if your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to
experience this. 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.
* *Thumbnail Pre-cache:* Adds an option to disable thumbnail
pre-caching for selected browsers. A brief explanation follows —
grab something solid.
When Graphic Workshop first opens a browser — for example, when it
boots up — it will show you thumbnails for as many files as will fit
in the window. It will thereafter pre-cache thumbnails, silently
loading them during moments when it's idle, such that when you
scroll your browser, there won't be a noticeable delay as it fetches
its thumbnails from disk.
This feature can be enabled or disabled for the entire application
in the Setup window.
This upgrade adds an item to thebrowser right-click → Thumbnails
menu to disable pre-caching for selected browser windows. You might
wish to do this if you keep multiple browsers open in Graphic
Workshop and some of them point to folders with a large number of
pictures in them, or to folders you don't look at particularly
often. Doing so will reduce Graphic Workshop's memory footprint.
* *Animated PNG:* Improves the timing accuracy of Graphic Workshop's
new animated PNG viewer, and deals with a few weird-beard animated
PNG files that we encountered.
* *Association Wizard:* Removes Graphic Workshop's Association Wizard,
which hitherto would associate your choice of graphic file types
with Graphic Workshop, so Graphic Workshop could serve as a viewer
from other applications, such as File Explorer.
Recent changes to Windows appear to have broken Association Wizard,
possibly irretrievably.
We hasten to add that you can still associate file types with
Graphic Workshop through File Explorer's Open With window. This is
somewhat more intuitive than Association Wizard, and totally
bulletproof.
Please see the Associating File Types with Graphic Workshop section
of the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for an
updated discussion of how handle file association.
* *Windows Libraries:* Adds fields to the Application tab of the
Graphic Workshop Setup window to allow you to customize the names
used for Windows' public and private libraries and folders as they
appear in Graphic Workshop's browser navigation panes.
* *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 Screeen Saver Construction Set 10(second notification)
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 afflicts 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
(additional 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>
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