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Contents:
- Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 10 (additional
notification)
- GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 Revision 5
- PNG MNG
Construction Set 14 Revision 5 (second
notification)
- Even More Important
(Keep Trusting Us) (second
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 10
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 has
been updated.
In this release:
 Thumbnails:
A decidedly pernicious issue in Graphic Workshop's
thumbnail management logic has been addressed. Left to
its own devices, it could destabilize and crash Graphic
Workshop if somewhat large graphics were thumbnailed...
under some builds of Windows..
This one's fairly serious, and we'd like to take this
opportunity to urge all users of Graphic Workshop to
update to this release no later than half an hour ago.
- Build to
Clipboard and View: Many of the features in
Graphic Workshop's browser right-click menu can build
their modified graphics to the Windows clipboard, as
well as to disk files, from whence they can be pasted
into other applications.
Those that don't have integral View functions can now
build graphics to a Graphic Workshop View window, for
additional processing.
Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click on OK
to build to the clipboard. Hold down the Alt key and
click on OK to build to View where it's applicable.
This feature is available for the Adjust, Caption,
Effects, Matt and Frame, Photography Workshop, Transform
and Watermark functions. See the sections in Graphic
Workshop's Reference document pertaining to these
windows for more information.
- Preview
Images: A
number of the user interface windows in Graphic
Workshop that display preview images — most
notably Get Information, Delete, Rename
and Move and Copy —
can now look to Graphic Workshop's THN thumbnail files
if no other quick source of thumbnails is to hand.
This speeds up these functions, and largely banishes
the thumbnail not available symbol.
- Font
Wrangler UltraLight: A bug that
prevented the entire sample text being displayed in
the Font Sample window under some builds of Windows
has been stomped.
- Favorites:
A bug in the Graphic Workshop Favorites window that
could cause it to crash if more than one thumbnail
was selected has been disabused of its bad behavior.
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, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 14
for half the current new-user price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the
upgrade page.
The graphic of the woman with a
digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license
from StockFresh.
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GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 Revision 5
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GIF Construction Set Professional
14 has been updated.
In this release:
- JPEG Security: The GIF
Construction Set JPEG 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 JPEG library is available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 3.0.0.
- PNG
Security: The GIF Construction Set PNG library
has been updated to the latest release to address
several potential security and performance issues.
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.40.
- WebP
Security: The GIF Construction Set WebP
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues.
The current version of the WebP library is available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.3.1.
- Duration:
Animations opened in GIF Construction Set will tell
you their running time. Hover your mouse over the
Header block or double-click on it to open the
Header editor.
- Time
Index: The current time index for each image
chunk of an animation can now be found by hovering
over it, or double-clicking on it to open its
editor.
- Previews:
Several block editors that hitherto lacked preview
images lack them no more.
- Animation
Interface: Several animation interface items
that could provide GIF Construction Set with invalid
information, and hence confuse it greatly, have been
smartened up.
- 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, we invite
you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 for half the current new-user
price.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
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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PNG MNG Construction
Set 14 Revision 5
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PNG MNG Construction Set 14 has
been updated.
In this release:
- JPEG Security: The PNG MNG
Construction Set JPEG 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 JPEG library is available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 3.0.0.
- PNG
Security: The PNG MNG Construction Set PNG
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues.
The current version of the PNG library is now
available in the About → Credits window. It's
currently 1.6.40.
- WebP
Security: The PNG MNG Construction Set WebP
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues.
The current version of the WebP library is available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.3.1.
- Duration:
Animations opened in PNG MNG Construction Set will
tell you their running time. Hover your mouse over
the Header block or double-click on it to open the
Header editor.
- Time
Index: The current time index for each image
chunk of an animation can now be found by hovering
over it, or double-clicking on it to open its
editor.
- Previews:
Several chunk editors that hitherto lacked preview
images lack them no more.
- Animation
Interface: Several animation interface items
that could provide PNG MNG Construction Set with
invalid information, and hence confuse it greatly,
have been smartened up.
- 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, we invite you to
upgrade to PNG MNG
Construction Set 14 for half the current
new-user price. Click on the blue button below to
visit the upgrade page.
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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Even More Important
(Keep Trusting Us)
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Alchemy Mindworks' software has traditionally
been signed with a digital certificate. The most visible
function of this technology is to prevent Windows from
displaying scary messages when you install our stuff.
Earlier this year, the price of digital code
signing certificates escalated from exorbitant to
extortionate. In the interest of keeping our costs, and
hence the prices of our products, as low as possible, we
decided to rethink the issue of code signing.
We've created what we consider to be an
elegant resolution to this issue. If you download and
install Alchemy Mindworks software, we invite you to
install the Alchemy
Mindworks trusted certificate first. Click on the
foregoing link for an approachable discussion of this
issue, and a two-minute walk-through to make the whole
treacherous conspiracy go away for the next decade.
While you're busy ridding your computer of
some of Windows' more nettlesome popups, we invite you to
disable its Smart
Screen blue window of doom as well, another
questionable security feature that's probably beset you
with concern of late.
There are few things you can do with a
computer that are more satisfying than spanking Windows.
Should you have any concerns about our
software, the security thereof or the issue of code
signing, we invite you to contact
us. We'll be pleased to explain this situation in as
much detail as you require, and the message you receive
will be signed by a living, breathing Alchemy Mindworks
staff member — not a certificate.
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