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Contents:
1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6* (additional notification)
2. *Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 11*
3. * Alpha Paint 11 Revision 3*(second notification)
4. ***Announcing Pagan Daybook 11*(additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6
(additional 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, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop
Professional 11* for half the single-user license price.
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 Screen Saver Construction Set 11
Screen Saver Construction Set 11 has been released. We've further
refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better
utilize the resources available under 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 Screen Saver Construction Set
11, you'll find that it:
* *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG
documents for Screen Saver Construction Set to address several
potential security issues.
We'd like to urge all the users of Screen Saver Construction Set to
update to this release immediately.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for
Screen Saver Construction Setto 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction
Set's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application
to be selected without recourse to editing Screen Saver Construction
Set's configuration data.
Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of Screen Saver
Construction Set's Setup window.
The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain
everything... trust us.
* *Edge Support:* Screen Saver Construction Set will now find the
Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.
* *Animation Editor:* Fixes a bug in the animation object editor
Preview window, which could render animation backgrounds incorrectly.
* *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of
Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, Alpha Paint or Graphic Workshop with
e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint
button in Screen Saver Construction Set to call for one of these
alternate paint applications. The alternate paint selection logic
will call e-Paint for graphics without alpha transparency, and Alpha
Paint for graphics that have alpha transparency.
* *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 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 10 on or after July 1, 2020, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to Screen Saver Construction Set 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set10 prior to July 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to
Screen Saver Construction Set 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Screen Saver Construction Set 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.
Alpha Paint 11 Revision 3
Alpha Paint 11 has been updated. In this release:
* *Text Tool:* Updates the typographic controls in the Text tool to
make them more intuitive and generally cooler.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for
Alpha Paintto address several potential security issues. It also
improves the image quality of WebP graphics.
We'd like to urge all the users of Alpha Paintto update to this
release immediately.
* *Toolbox:* Addresses a number of issues in the drawing tools user
interface.
* *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation: *Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10, we
invite you to *upgrade to **Alpha Paint 11* for half the single-user
license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Announcing Pagan Daybook 11
(second notification)
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.
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