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Contents:
- Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 3 (additional
notification)
- PNG MNG Construction Set
14 Revision 3
- GIF Construction
Set Professional 14 Revision 3 (second
notification)
- Replying to this
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We'd like to take this opportunity
to wish all the users of our software the very
best of the festive season, whatever it's
called in your house.
We'd also like to wish you substantially less
snowfall than is illustrated here.
May the season bring you joy, the comfort of
family, the serenity of the closing of the
year... and no socks.
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 3
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 has
been updated.
In this release:
- PNG
Security: The Graphic Workshop PNG library has
been updated to the latest release to address several
potential security and performance issues. We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of Graphic
Workshop to update to this release, 'coz the universe
has a lot of really bad people in it.
The current version of the PNG library is now available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.38.
- TIFF:
Graphic Workshop's TIFF reader has been refined,
enhanced and made cooler still. It will now open a much
larger palette of TIFF documents... even the really,
really weird ones.
- Archive
Manager: An issue that could cause Graphic
Workshop's Archive Manager to decide... incorrectly...
that some .tar.gz archives were damaged has been
addressed.
- Welcome
Wizard: A number of problems that appeared on
occasion in Graphic Workshop's Welcome Wizard have been
nailed, and the wizard will now prompt you before it
begins invoking its magic.
- Secure EXIF
Metadata: Several problems that could cause the
Secure EXIF item to be absent from Graphic Workshop's
right-click menu under some configurations of Windows
have been disabused of this behavior. Should you be
unfamiliar with it, Secure EXIF will quickly and
permanently remove the hidden metadata from JPG and PNG
documents that could be used to determine exactly where
you were when you took the pictures in question.
- More Secure
EXIF Metadata: Graphic Workshop's Secure EXIF
logic is now available as a batch function. Select as
many JPG and PNG documents as you like and then select
Secure EXIF from the Graphic Workshop Image menu to
remove their location data.
- Presentaton
Wizard UltraLight: Graphic Workshop's ancillary
Presentation Wizard UltraLight application's runtime has
been updated to use our shockingly fast low-level pixel
management technology, speeding everything up.
- Thumbnail
Alpha: Graphic Workshop's thumbnail manager
hitherto ignored the transparency of some images when it
was creating thumbnails. This has been fixed.
- Preview
Alpha: Graphic Workshop's preview image logic was
also omitting alpha transparency under some
configurations of Windows, and this too is history.
- MP3:
Under some configurations of Windows, Graphic Workshop's
browsers could display two thumbnails for each MP3
document therein. It's now down the traditional one
thumbnail for file.
- System
Information: Under some configurations of
Windows, Graphic Workshop's System Information window
would omit your motherboard BIOS serial number. It's
back.
- Get
Information:The Graphic Workshop Get Information
window didn't always respond correctly to a held-down
Shift key to disable its preview image. Now it does.
Click on the blue
button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 12 on or
after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 12 prior to
June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop
Professional 14, 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.
The graphic of the woman with a
digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license
from StockFresh.
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PNG MNG Construction
Set 14 Revision 3
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PNG MNG Construction Set 14 has
been updated.
In this release:
- PNG
Security: The PNG MNG Construction Set
PNG library has been updated to the latest release
to address several potential security and
performance issues. We'd like to take this
opportunity to urge all users of PNG MNG
Construction Set to update to
this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really
bad people in it.
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.38.
- Digital
Video: The PNG MNG Construction Set Export to Movie has
been enhanced to accurately preserve the delays and
running time of the source animations it exports
from. It also manages attached sound more
accurately.
- Welcome
Wizard: A number of problems that appeared on
occasion in PNG MNG Construction Set's
Welcome Wizard have been nailed, and the wizard will
now prompt you before it begins invoking its magic.
- System
Information: Under some configurations of
Windows, PNG MNG
Construction Set's
System Information window would omit your
motherboard BIOS serial number. It's back.
- 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 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 12 on or after
June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade
to PNG MNG Construction
Set Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for PNG
MNG Construction Set Professional 12 prior to
June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
14 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
14, 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.
The background
of the banner graphic above, a detail from a picture by
Jimi Backhouse, is used under license from
freeimages.com. The ink well icon for PNG MNG
Construction Set was created by Eugen Buzuk of
icondrawer.com, and is used under license.
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GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 Revision 3
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GIF Construction Set Professional
14 has been updated.
In this release:
- PNG Security: The GIF
Construction Set PNG
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge
all users of GIF Construction Set
to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a
lot of really bad people in it.
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.38.
- Digital
Video: The GIF Construction Set Export to
Movie has been enhanced to accurately
preserve the delays and running time of the source
animations it exports from. It also manages attached
sound more accurately.
- Welcome
Wizard: A number of problems that appeared on
occasion in GIF Construction Set's
Welcome Wizard have been nailed, and the wizard will
now prompt you before it begins invoking its magic.
- System
Information: Under some configurations of
Windows, GIF Construction
Set's
System Information window would omit your
motherboard BIOS serial number. It's back.
- 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 GIF Construction
Set Professional 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional
12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to GIF
Construction Set Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional
12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction
Set Professional 14 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you run GIF Construction
Set Professional 14, 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.
The background of the banner
graphic above, a detail from a picture by Fabibel,
is used under license from freeimages.com.
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Announcing Animation
Workshop 14
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Animation Workshop 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to Animation
Workshop, 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
Animation Workshop 14, you'll find...
- Speed: The
low-level pixel logic for Animation
Workshop has been re-written in optimized
machine language. Since most of what Animation
Workshop does involves managing pixels, it
has become substantially quicker.
JPEG
Security: Animation Workshop's Turbo JPEG library
has been updated to the latest release to address some
security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Animation Workshop to
update to this release as quickly as possible.
WebP: The WebP library has been updated
to improve its performance.
Rendering Engine: Improves the performance of Animation Workshop's
animation rendering engine.
Colors: The color selection window that appears
whenever Animation
Workshop prompts you to select a color has
been enhanced with an expanded palette of more
contemporary colors — scroll to the bottom of the list
to see them. In addition, you can now re-arrange the
color list by dragging and dropping its items.
- 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 Animation Workshop
14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Animation Workshop 12 on or after July 1,
2022, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
Animation Workshop 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Animation Workshop 12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to
upgrade to Animation Workshop 14 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 14,
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.
The
background of the banner graphic above is used under
license from Shutterstock.
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