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 Contents:

1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 14 (new this weekend)
2.  Screen Saver Construction Set 12 Revision 2 (second notification)
3.  Presentation Wizard 12 Revision 3 (additional notification)
4.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details

Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 14

Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been updated.

In this release:

• Open With: The Open With item in the right-click menu of Graphic Workshop's browsers will let you open any picture with your choice of external applications. Open With has been rewritten to make it way easier to use.
  
  Open With now automatically includes those ancillary applications installed with Graphic Workshop that know how to open graphics — e-Paint UltraLight, GIF Construction Set UltraLight, Icon Editor UltraLight and so on -- as well as any stand-alone Alchemy Mindworks applications you have on your system.
  
  It will also preserve your configuration options between major version changes, and track updates to other Alchemy Mindworks software.
  
  It now includes ZIP and RAR archives, which can be opened in Graphic Workshop's Archive Manager from its browsers.
  
  Note that the new Open With logic will ignore any previous Open With items you've configured in earlier releases of Graphic Workshop.
  
  
• Edit EXIF: Graphic Workshop's Edit EXIF metadata editor has been updated to deal with a number of hitherto unsupported tag types. It also displays a thumbnail in its prompt window, should you attempt to edit the EXIF data in a JPG or PNG document that doesn't turn out to have any.
  
  
• Transform: The Transform window has been updated, and several user interface issues have been addressed. In addition, it will now display its example graphics based on the Graphic Workshop document you've right-clicked on, or the first item in a batch, rather than the traditional little red sports car.
  
  
• Effects: The Effects window has been also updated, and several user interface issues have been addressed — pretty much the same ones as turned up in Transform, above. It too will now display its example graphics based on the Graphic Workshop document you've right-clicked on, or the first item in a batch, rather than the aforementioned traditional little red sports car.
  
  
• Move and Copy: A cosmetic issue in Move and Copy that caused its document count text to be truncated under some configurations of Windows has been addressed.
  
  
• Function Window Thumbnails: The thumbnail images that appear in Graphic Workshop's function windows, such as Transform and Effects, above, have been enhanced to more accurately represent pictures with alpha transparency, large original dimensions and paletted images.
  
  
• The UltraLight Screen Clock: The style selector window in The UltraLight Screen Clock now temporarily disables the clock display while its open, allowing the style list to be substantially quicker and more responsive.
  
  
• Presentation Wizard UltraLight: An issue that caused Presentation Wizard UltraLight's documents to display incorrect flashing cursors under some configurations of Windows has been stomped.
  
  

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.

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Screen Saver Construction Set 12 Revision 3

Screen Saver Construction Set 12 has been updated.

In this release:

• JPEG Security: Screen Saver Construction Set'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 Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release as quickly as possible.
  
  Keeping Screen Saver Construction Set'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 Screen Saver Construction Set'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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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.
  
  
• PNG: The PNG reader in Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver Construction Set document runtime has been updated to address a number of performance issues.
  

Click on the blue button to download Screen Saver Construction Set 12.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 11, we invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 12 for half the single-user license price.

Presentation Wizard 12 Revision 3

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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