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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 11 MOZ JPEG Plugin Updated
  2.  Screen Saver Construction Set 11 Revision 2 (second notification)
  3.  Font Wrangler 11 Revision 2 (additional notification)
  4.  Alchemy Mindworks Web Site (additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop MOZ JPEG Plugin Revision 2



The MOZ JPEG plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been updated.

The MOZ JPEG plugin is a no-cost accessory for Graphic Workshop that creates JPEG files up to a third smaller than those written by conventional JPEG applications, with no greater adjustment of image quality.

If you're creating .JPG graphics for a web page, or any other bandwidth-sensitive application, the MOZ JPEG plugin is pretty much essential.

In this release:

  • Security: The newly-released MOZ JPEG plugin embodies all the recent JPEG security updates to make sure that its JPEG reader isn't vulnerable to malware attacks.

    We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop and the MOZ JPEG plugin to update to this version. Previous releases of the plugin should not be considered secure.

  • Speed: The new release of the MOZ JPEG plugin is built against the same Turbo JPEG reader that Graphic Workshop uses as its primary JPEG library. Its JPEG reader is shockingly quick. We hasten to note that it's quite a bit slower writing JPEGs, as it performs a lot of analysis of each graphic to devise an optimum compression strategy.

  • Size: The latest release of the MOZ JPEG plugin writes still smaller JPEGs than its predecessor.


Click on the blue button to download the MOZ JPEG plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 11.


Upgrades

You'll need Graphic Workshop Professional 11 to host this plugin.

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.

Screen Saver Construction Set 11 Revision 2


Screen Saver Construction Set 11 has been updated. In this release:

  • WebP: The WebP library has been updated to address a number of image quality issues and to enhance its security.

  • JPEG Security: The JPEG reader has been updated to the newest library release to address several potential vulnerabilities. This one's really essential.

    We'd like to urge all users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release as quickly as possible.

  • Edge Support: Screen Saver Construction Set will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.

  • Image Libraries: Updates the image libraries for Screen Saver Construction Set to address a potential memory leak.

  • User Interface: The user interface windows of Screen Saver Construction Set have been enhanced. A number of features of the application are more intuitive and easier to understand. Everything looks tight and leading-edge.

  • Code Review: We've completed a line-by-line review of the underlying source code of Screen Saver Construction Set. This has resulted in a smaller, faster application... and we dispatched a number of stealthy bugs, memory leaks and security issues.

  • 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.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 10, we invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 11 for half the single-user license price.

Font Wrangler 11 Revision 2


Font Wrangler 11 has been updated. In this release:

  • WebP: The WebP library has been updated to address a number of image quality issues and to enhance its security.

  • JPEG Security: The JPEG reader has been updated to the newest library release to address several potential vulnerabilities. This one's really essential.

    We'd like to urge all users of Font Wrangler to update to this release as quickly as possible.

  • Speed: Various user interface elements in Font Wrangler — most notably the rightmost pane in its application Window — were adversely affected by a recent change to Windows 10, making them extremely slow. They're back in overdrive.

  • Edge Support: Font Wrangler will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.

  • Image Libraries: Updates the image libraries for Font Wrangler to address a potential memory leak.

  • User Interface: The user interface windows of Font Wrangler have been enhanced. A number of features of the application are more intuitive and easier to understand. Everything looks tight and leading-edge.

  • Code Review: We've completed a line-by-line review of the underlying source code of Font Wrangler. This has resulted in a smaller, faster application... and we dispatched a number of stealthy bugs, memory leaks and security issues.

  • Administrator Prompt: Depending on your Windows configuration, Font Wrangler may be prevented from installing and removing fonts when it's run as a normal user. Running it as Administrator addresses this issue, and the Font Wrangler documentation explains how to make this happen. Font Wrangler now includes a prompt window to alert you to this issue when Font Wrangler thinks its installation functions might be blocked.

  • 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 Font Wrangler 11.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 10, we invite you to upgrade to Font Wrangler 11 for half the single-user license price.

Alchemy Mindworks Web Site


The Alchemy Mindworks web site has been updated to serve all its pages using the secure HTTPS protocol, rather than HTTP.

HTTPS means that everything you do at our web site will be secure, and even really evil people won't be able to intercept it. Admittedly, we sincerely hope that really evil people have better things to do with their time.

Perhaps more to the point, you won't see a scary "not secure" message in the address field of your web browser when you visit our site.

We hasten to add that through some truly cunning and inspired HTML configuration and coding, any access to our sites through the old HTTP links will be immediately and transparently redirected to our secure pages. You don't have to change any bookmarks or links.

Google Chrome: It has come to our attention that changes in recent updates to Google Chrome have prevented it from downloading software installers from our site — and quite a few others, as we understand it. We've resolved this issue for the Alchemy Mindworks downloadable software.

In the event that you encounter any issues with the new site, please contact us and tell us what happened.

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