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Contents:

  1. Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 11 (new this weekend)
  2. GIF Construction Set Professional 14 Revision 5 (second notification)
  3. PNG MNG Construction Set 14 Revision 5 (additional notification)
  4. Even More Important (Keep Trusting Us) (updated this weekend)
  5. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 is Coming!

Update your current Graphic Workshop registration now and enjoy our legendary no-cost upgrade to version 15 this fall.

(This weekend — until Monday, July 24 1159pm EST — this offer extends to any Graphic Workshop registration of version 4 or better.)

Click on the graphic to your right.

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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 11




Graphic Workshop Professional 14 has been updated.

In this release:


  • JPEG Security: The Graphic Workshop 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 Graphic Workshop 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 Graphic Workshop 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 Graphic Workshop 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.
  • Invalid File Names: On occasion, graphics downloaded from the Internet arrive with names that include illegal characters. Graphic Workshop was hitherto unable to open them, and depending upon your configuration of Windows, such files could crash the application.

    This issue has been resolved — Graphic Workshop now handles files with invalid names correctly, as do its ancillary applications. We recommend a quick read of the discussion of invalid file names in the Browser Windows section of Graphic Workshop's Reference document.

  • GWS Camera Screen Capture: A bug in the manual select option of Camera that terminated the application in some circumstances has been remorselessly stomped. An issue that could cause the 32-bit edition of Camera to crash under some configurations of Windows is history.


Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 14.

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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.

Upgrade


The graphic of the woman with a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license from StockFresh.

GIF Construction Set Professional 14 Revision 5




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.

Download


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.


Upgrade

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PNG MNG Construction Set 14 Revision 5




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.

Download


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.


Upgrade


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.

Even More Important (Keep Trusting Us)




(It has come to our attention that some web browsers have hitherto evoked alarming popups if they were asked to visit the links that appear a few paragraphs below. Considering the content of this posting, there's probably a measure of symmetry in this. These messages have been banished — click with confidence.)

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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