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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)**
 4. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
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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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