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- Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 Revision 12 (additional
notification)
- Presentation
Wizard 12 Revision 3
- Pagan Daybook 12
Revision 2 (second
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to capture it.
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 Revision 12
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Versions of Graphic Workshop
older than 12 have some serious security issues.
We don't recommend using them to open graphics
downloaded from the Internet.
This week, if you have registered Graphic
Workshop 4 or better, we invite you to upgrade
to safe, secure Graphic Workshop Professional 12
for half price.
Click on the red graphic to your right.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been
updated.
In this release:
- TIFF:
The TIFF reader in Graphic Workshop has been updated to
address several seriously insidious bugs that could
crash Graphic Workshop and potentially destabilize
Windows. While TIFF files have descended to a somewhat
infrequently-visited stratum of obscurity, they still
turn up from time to time when no one's looking.
We urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this
release immediately.
- Browser:
The Graphic Workshop Setup window now includes color
buttons to set the text and background colors used to
create browser thumbnails. By default, these objects
draw their colors from Windows' themes, but it has come
to our attention that some themes include decidedly
questionable color choices.
If you've been finding the thumbnail text difficult to
read, click on the Setup button in Graphic Workshop's
tool bar and select the Display tab.
- Reset: If
you encounter configuration issues with Graphic
Workshop that defy reason and exhaust profanity, you
can now return it to its "just installed"
configuration state by holding down the Ctrl key on
your keyboard and running it. You'll be prompted to
confirm that you'd like to reset its configuration.
- Backup:
Graphic Workshop will now create two levels of backup
of its configuration data. In the event that something
bad happens, you can easily restore an earlier
configuration. See the discussion of Graphic
Workshop's INI file in the Configuration section of
its manual.
- Identify
Mystery Files: The Identify window now includes
a preview image so you can be sure that the file
you're about to process is what you're expecting.
- Window
Previews: A growing number of Graphic Workshop's
function windows include preview images. If you're
running Graphic Workshop on a slow or very busy computer
and you find the delay in generating these graphics to
be noticeable, you can disable them in the Display tab
of Setup. Uncheck the Show
Window Preview Images option.
- Montage:
A memory leak in Graphic Workshop's Montage UltraLight
application that could crash Montage and potentially
destabilize Windows has been addressed.
- Install:
An issue with the 64-bit installer for Graphic Workshop
that could cause it to install the application
incorrectly under some configurations of Windows has
been nailed.
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,
we invite you to upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 12 for half the
single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the
upgrade page.
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Presentation Wizard 12
Revision 3
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Presentation Wizard 12 has been updated.
In this release:
- JPEG
Security: Presentation Wizard's Turbo JPEG library has
been updated to the latest releases to address some
security and image quality issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Presentation Wizard to
update to this release as quickly as possible.
Keeping Presentation Wizard's JPEG reader up to date
and secure being a substantial bulwark against the
barbarian hoards, you can now check the TurboJPEG
library's version in Presentation Wizard's Credits
window, right at the bottom of the scroll list. The
current one is 2.1.3.
- Gradient:
The Gradient selection window that turns up in various
places in Presentation Wizard has been updated to
address a problem that prevented the center coordinates
of a gradient from being set to negative values under
some configurations of Windows.
- Cursors:
An issue that caused Presentation Wizard's documents to
display incorrect flashing cursors under some
configurations of Windows has been stomped.
- PNG: The
PNG reader in Presentation
Wizard has been updated to correctly handle
interlaced PNG graphics with slightly funky code
structures... of which there appear to be a
substantial number. This is not a security issue,
but it will prevent the occasional PNG from looking
like a sand painting.
The PNG reader has also experienced a noticeable
speed improvement.
- Runtime:
The Presentation Wizard document runtime has been
updated to address a number of performance issues.
Click on the blue button to download Presentation Wizard
12.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Presentation Wizard 11, we invite you to
upgrade to Presentation Wizard 12 for half
the single-user license price.
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Pagan Daybook 12
Revision 2
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Pagan Daybook 12 has been updated.
In this release:
- JPEG
Security: Pagan
Daybook's Turbo JPEG library has been updated
to the latest releases to address some security and
image quality issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Pagan Daybook
to update to this release as quickly as possible.
Keeping Pagan
Daybook's JPEG reader up to date and secure
being a substantial bulwark against the barbarian
hoards, you can now check the TurboJPEG library's
version in Pagan
Daybook's Credits window, right at the bottom
of the scroll list. The current one is 2.1.3.
- Gradient:
The Gradient selection window that turns up in various
places in Pagan Daybook
has been updated to address a problem that prevented
the center coordinates of a gradient from being set to
negative values under some configurations of Windows.
- Observance
Database: Pagan Daybook's oracle of festivals,
observances and holidays has been refined and updated.
- PNG: The
PNG reader in Pagan Daybook
has been updated to correctly handle interlaced PNG
graphics with slightly funky code structures... of
which there appear to be a substantial number. This
is not a security issue, but it will prevent the
occasional PNG from looking like a sand painting.
The PNG reader has also experienced a noticeable
speed improvement.
- 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 12.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Pagan Daybook 11, we invite you to
upgrade to Pagan Daybook 12 for half the current
new-user price.
Click on the blue
button below to visit the upgrade page.
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