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Contents:
1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6* (second notification)
2. ***Announcing Pagan Daybook 11***
3. * Announcing Calendar Wizard 11***(additional notification)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6
(second notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been updated. In this release:
* *WebP: *Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to address several
potential security issues.
It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics.
We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop to update to
this release immediately.
* *Caption:* Adds underline and strikeout text options to the new
Caption window, and keyboard shortcuts for all the typographic
controls.
* *Typography: *Updates the typographic controls in Graphic Workshop's
Caption and Watermark windows and the corresponding Caption and
Watermark filters; in the Text object editor of Animation Workshop
UltraLight; in the Caption window of GWS Camera Screen Capture and
in the Image editor window of Montage UltraLight to make them more
intuitive.
* *Animation Workshop:* Fixes a bug in the toolbar of Animation
Workshop UltraLight that hitherto caused the ? button to open the
wrong document.
* *Ultralight Screen Clock:* Fixes a bug that could prevent the clock
from accessing its styles under some configurations of Windows.
* *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 experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 11 as yet,
please see its initial release announcement
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/976.html> for a list of all its new and
enhanced functionality.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, 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 Pagan Daybook 11
Pagan Daybook 11 has been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:
* *Sound Effects:* Adds optional sound effects to Pagan Daybook's
screen saver. It can beep and crash and zap and generally express
itself whenever the moving window changes direction, appears or
otherwise does something interesting.
You can enable or disable screen saver sounds in the Application tab
of Pagan Daybook's Setup window. Click on the Sounds button therein
to configure your choice of the substantial internal library of
sound effects, or import your own.
* *Saver Backgrounds: *Adds a number of new screen saver background
graphics fresh from an alternate universe. Right-click in Pagan
Daybook and select Select Screen Saver, and then click on
Transitions to experience the entire library.
In addition to fractal textures and other abstract content, Pagan
Daybook can use photographs as its screen saver backgrounds. We've
added a few examples to the library of backgrounds. No wolves were
harmed in the making of this application — and happily, no
photographers.
Right-click in the Transitions list to see what its items look like
as full-screen graphics.
* *****Observance Database: *The pictures in the observance database
have been reviewed. In a number of entries, we returned to the
original art and updated the database with sharper and more vivid
graphics.
* *Windows 10 Performance:* Slower computers running Windows 10 can
cause the movement of the Pagan Daybook window in its screen saver
to become erratic. The logic that drives the window has been
improved to minimize this. If you continue to encounter the screen
saver staggering across your screen like a drunken reveler, enable
the Suppress Screen Saver Animation option in Setup. This will — as
its name implies — stop the small animation in the lower right
corner of the Pagan Daybook window from moving. It will also prevent
Pagan Daybook from updating its time and date once per second while
the screen saver is visible, which was hitherto a substantial part
of the problem.
* *JPEG:* Updates the library that reads JPG documents for Pagan
Daybook to address several potential security issues.
We'd like to urge all the users of Pagan Daybookto update to this
release immediately.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for
Pagan Daybook and its ancillary applications to address several
potential security issues. It also improves the image quality of
WebP graphics.
* *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics
for The Pagan Daybook have been reviewed to ensure that they're
secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable
people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the
users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Cursor:* Fixes a bug that could cause a Windows cursor to appear
momentarily when the screen saver moved across your desktop, under
some configurations of Windows.
* *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 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 10
on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Pagan
Daybook 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook10
prior to May 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 11 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Pagan Daybook 11, 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/prskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing Calendar Wizard 11
(additional notification)
We've enhanced functionality of Calendar Wizard, added some radical new
clock styles, 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 Calendar Wizard, you'll find
that it:
* *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG
documents for Calendar Wizard to address several potential security
issues.
We'd like to urge all the users of Calendar Wizard to update to this
release immediately.
* *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read graphics for Calendar
Wizard have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally
bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many
of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software
to keep its security elements up to date.
* ***Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Calendar Wizard's Setup
window, allowing the default external paint application to be
selected without recourse to editing Calendar Wizard's configuration
data.
Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of Calendar
Wizard's Setup window.
The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain
everything... trust us.*
*
* *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current release of
Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint
UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button
in Calendar Wizard to call for one of these alternate paint
applications.
* *User Interface:* Updates the typographic controls in the Edit Month
and Edit year windows to make them cooler and more intuitive.
* *Print Dodecahedral: *Updates the Print Dodecahedral calendar logic
to render your calendars as twelve-sized desk toys that can be
printed, cut out and folded into three-dimensional objects.
There were a few printer inconsistencies in the previous edition
that turned up on some output devices.
Should the dodecahedral calendar option have thus far eluded notice,
there's an example shown here prior to the application of scissors
and tape. It takes about five minutes to cut one out and assemble
it... and then most of the following year to stop playing with it.
We hasten to add that you can choose the design elements in
dodecahedral calendars — this includes adding pictures or textures
to their faces, in place of the solid color illustrated in this posting.
* *File Open:* Fixes a bug in the File Open window that could prevent
it from remembering its size under some configurations of Windows.
* *Window:* Updates the screen logic to prevent Calendar Wizard's
application window from flashing when it first opens a calendar,
hitherto an issue under some configurations of Windows.
* *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run Calendar Wizard11 for the first time, it
will look for a previous installation of Calendar Wizard 10 and
optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Calendar Wizard 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 10
on or after June 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Calendar Wizard11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard10
prior to June 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 11
for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Calendar Wizard 11, 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/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
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