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Contents:
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 12 Revision 6 (new
this weekend)
- Calendar
Wizard 12 Revision 2 (new
this weekend)
- PNG
MNG Construction Set 12 Revision 2 (additional
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Graphic Workshop Professional 12
Revision 6
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 has been updated.
In this release:
- Effects:
Several issues with the Graphic Workshop Effect
window as it applies to animations have been
addressed. It hitherto could produce mangled GIF
documents under some configurations of Windows.
- Save
As: Graphic Workshop's Save As window — as
summoned by View, among others — now references the
default file extension field in Setup. If you enter
a file name with no extension, it will append the
default extension to create a legal file name. Note
that if you set File Extension Case in Setup to
Lower Case, the file extensions added by Save As
will all be in lower case.
- Animation
Workshop UltraLight: Graphic Workshop's
ancillary application Animation Workshop UltraLight
has been updated to address some issues with its
frame modes, most notably one that caused it to
display spurious frames in animations with Image
objects having negative offset values. Several
cosmetic issues associated with the Respect Frame
option have also been nailed.
- Caption:
Graphic Workshop's default Caption window has been
updated such that its typographic controls — font,
font size, text color and so on — will apply to the
entire text field if no text has been selected.
We've heard from a number of users of Caption who
suspected it was broken, as it appears to do noting
if no selection is available.
- Crop: The
Graphic Workshop crop window has been updated to
address several issues. A cosmetic bug in the
Properties window that could leave spurious
selection lines near the example image has been
stomped. A rounding error that caused dimensions set
by Properties to be off by one pixel under some
configurations of Windows is no more.
- EXIF: The
Turbo JPEG processor will now create JPEG files with
EXIF metadata intact if you enable Preserve EXIF
Blocks in Setup and convert or process source
graphics having EXIF data.
- Print
3D: The Print Dodecahedron and Print Cube
windows now include fields to set the printed
characteristics of dashed lines. It has come to our
attention that some Windows output devices — most
notably the Microsoft Print to PDF printer option —
can render dashed lines with tiny spaces between the
dashes in question, so the lines look more or less
solid. If you're confronted by such a device, set
the Dashed Pen Mode in one of the foregoing windows
to a non-zero value — five or six works well in most
cases.
If you haven't experienced Graphic
Workshop Professional 12 as yet, please see its initial release announcement
for a list of all its new and enhanced functionality.
Click on the
blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional
12.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 11 on
or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 12.
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 11
prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 for half the
current new-user price.
The first time you run Graphic
Workshop Professional 12, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to
visit the upgrade page.
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
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Calendar Wizard 12 Revision 2
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Calendar Wizard has been updated.
In this week's release:
- Dodecahedral
Calendars: It has come to our attention that
some Windows output devices — most notably the
Microsoft Print to PDF printer option — can render
dashed lines with tiny spaces between the dashes in
question, so the lines look more or less solid. This
can make the dodecahdral calendar printer's output a
bit difficult to work with. If you're confronted by
such a device, set the Dashed Pen Mode in Setup to a
non-zero value — five or six works well in most
cases.
From the initial release:
We've added new functionality to
Calendar Wizard, improved its performance and
generally refined it to better get along with Windows
10 and 11. (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 12, you'll find...
- Quick
64-bit Architecture: Calendar Wizard is now
available in both traditional 32-bit and
leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit software is
fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and
pretty much never runs into memory issues. We hasten
to note that registering or updating to Calendar
Wizard 12 will avail you of a registration key that
works with either edition... or both, if you're
feeling adventurous.
- Windows
11 Compatible: The version 11 software has
been showing some decidedly rough edges under
Windows 11, and may stop installing and/or running
therein. Calendar Wizard 12 rocks under Windows 11.
- Drawing
Engine: A number of metrics and details have
been improved in the calendar drawing engines for
Calendar Wizard.
- File
Association: An issue that prevented Windows
from associating Calendar Wizard's .CLN documents
with the Calendar Wizard application under some
configurations of Windows has been addressed.
- JPEG
Security: Calendar Wizard's Turbo JPEG library
has been updated to the latest release to address
some security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Calendar Wizard to
update to this release as quickly as possible.
- 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 Calendar Wizard
12.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for Calendar Wizard 11 on or after
August 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Calendar Wizard 12.
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for Calendar Wizard 11 prior to August
1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard
12 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run Calendar
Wizard 12, it will determine which upgrade option
applies to your license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
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PNG MNG Construction Set 12 Revision 2
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PNG MNG Construction Set 12 has
been updated. In this release:
- Convert
to RGB: An issue in the Convert to RGB
function that created true-color animations with
inaccurate or incorrect background information in
some circumstances has been addressed.
- Export
to GIF: The Export to GIF option has been
updated to nail a bug that caused it to create
invalid GIF documents under some configurations of
Windows.
- Color
and Balance: The Color and Balance window has
been updated to fix a problem with its real-time
preview pane and to address some document creation
issues for RGBA source animations.
- Convert
to Gray: The Convert to Gray function has been
updated to fix a background gray-level inaccuracy
for some source animations.
- Convert to
Mono: The Convert to Mono function has also
been updated to fix a background gray-level
inaccuracy for some source animations. It was a
pervasive and sneaky bug, and now it's history.
- Frame:
The Frame window has been updated to correctly
handle some RGBA source animations that hitherto
confused it.
- Shadow:
The Shadow window has been updated to address a
clipping issue that occurred with really large
shadow offsets.
- 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 PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 12.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 11 on or
after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to PNG
MNG Construction Set 12.
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 11 prior
to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG
Construction Set 12 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you run PNG MNG
Construction Set 12, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
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