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- Graphic Workshop
Professional 15 Revision 6 (additional
notification)
- Pagan Daybook 15
Revision 2
- e-Paint 15 Revision 2 (second
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- Replying to
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The perfect book
for the Year of the Dragon.
(Admittedly, it
isn't set in China and it doesn't
involve any actual dragons.)
Click on the
mythical creature.
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 15 Revision 6
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Graphic Workshop Professional 15
has been updated.
In this release:
- Audio
Read Performance: The memory management for the
MP3 and OGG audio file readers has been refined to
enhance their speed... radically. They're way quicker
than once they were.
- Animated
Transitions: The memory management enhancement
that sped up the aforementioned audio files has had a
similar effect on the Animated Transitions window in
Graphic Workshop's Image menu.
- OGG
Crash: A bug that could crash Graphic Workshop
when OGG files were written under some configurations
of Windows is now history, and seriously regrets ever
having been born.
- Raster Filter: The Raster option in
Graphic Workshop's View mode Filter window can now
create rasters at any angle you like. You don't want
to know about the high-school trigonometry that went
into making this work.
The Raster filter is a cool effect to make pretty much
anything look technological and sophisticated.
- Archive
Manager: Archive Manager will now automatically
select all the items in an archive as soon as one is
opened, allowing them to, for example, all be
extracted with a minimum amount of rodent mileage and
clicking. This behavior can be disabled by unselecting
the Select All After Open item in Setup.
- Performance:
Several more performance improvements have been
implemented throughout the application.
Click on the blue button to
download Graphic Workshop Professional 15.
If you haven't done so previously,
we recommend that you install the Alchemy
Mindworks trusted certificate and disable the Smart
Screen blue window of doom prior to downloading
Alchemy Mindworks software.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for Graphic Workshop 14, we invite you to
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15 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. The woman in the example raster
graphic in this section doesn't exist — her picture
was created by an AI at
This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com.
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Pagan Daybook 15
Revision 2
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Pagan Daybook 15 has updated.
In this release:
- Calendar:
The Pagan Daybook Calendar window has been enhanced. It
now features scroll buttons to quickly scan through the
Year and Month fields. Its internal update logic is much
quicker, so it looks nicer while you're browsing the
centuries.
- PNG
Security: The Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook 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 1.6.40.
- JPEG: The Pagan Daybook JPEG library has
been updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security
issue. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to this
release.
- WebP: The Pagan Daybook WebP library has
been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a security
issue. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to this
release.
- Registration
Key Window: To assist users of Alchemy
Mindworks' software who encounter issues with the
Registration Key window, it now includes helpful audio
prompts. It talks. You'll see a message to this effect
when you open it to update Pagan Daybook.
We hasten to add that if you don't find the spoken
prompts as cool as we did, you can disable them in the
initial prompt window, or at any time Pagan Daybook's Registration Key
window by clicking on Silence.
Disabling the spoken prompts in any Alchemy Mindworks
application will disable them for all our software,
for the rest of time... or until you explicitly turn
them back on by clicking on Sound in the Registration
Key window.
- Memory Leak: A resource memory issue
that could cause Pagan Daybook to terminate unexpectedly has been
addressed.
- Cloud
Textures: The fractal cloud texture generator that
appears in the Pagan Daybook Texture window has
been updated to address a buffer overrun that could
crash the software calling it.
- Fractal
Textures: The fractal
texture generator that appears in Pagan Daybook's Texture window
has been updated to improve its aspect ratio
management, such that non-square textures look more
natural.
- Rendering
Engine: A number of metrics and details have been
improved in the background drawing engines for Pagan Daybook.
- 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 15.
If you haven't done so previously,
we recommend that you install the Alchemy
Mindworks trusted certificate and disable the Smart
Screen blue window of doom prior to
downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Pagan Daybook 14, you're welcome to a half-price upgrade to Pagan Daybook 15.
Click on the blue
button below to visit the upgrade page.
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e-Paint 15 Revision 2
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e-Paint 15 has been updated.
In this release:
- Memory Leak: A resource memory issue
that could cause e-Paint to terminate unexpectedly has been
addressed.
- Cloud
Textures: The fractal cloud texture generator
that appears in e-Paint Fill window has
been updated to address a buffer overrun that could
crash the software calling it.
- Fractal
Textures: The fractal
texture generator that appears in e-Paint's Fill window
has been updated to improve its aspect ratio
management, such that non-square textures look more
natural.
- Raster Filter: The Raster
option in e-Paint's Filter window can now create
rasters at any angle you like. You don't want to know
about the high-school trigonometry that went into
making this work.
The Raster filter is a cool effect to make pretty much
anything look technological and sophisticated.
- Registration
Key Window: To assist users of Alchemy
Mindworks' software who encounter issues with the
Registration Key window, it now includes helpful audio
prompts. It talks. You'll see a message to this effect
when you open it to update e-Paint.
We hasten to add that if you don't find the spoken
prompts as cool as we did, you can disable them in the
initial prompt window, or at any time
e-Paint's Registration Key
window by clicking on Silence.
Disabling the spoken prompts in any Alchemy Mindworks
application will disable them for all our software,
for the rest of time... or until you explicitly turn
them back on by clicking on Sound in the Registration
Key window.
- WebP: The
e-Paint WebP library
has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a
security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity
to urge all users of Alpha Paint to update to
this release.
- Themes:
An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy
Mindworks software that could leak resources and
occasionally crash the applications in question has
been mercilessly stomped.
- Drawing
Engine: Improves the performance of e-Paint's
drawing engine.
- 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 e-Paint 15.
If you haven't done so previously,
we recommend that you install the Alchemy Mindworks trusted
certificate and disable the Smart Screen blue window of
doom prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks
software.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for e-Paint
14, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 15 for half the
current new-user price.
Click on the blue
button below to visit the upgrade page.
The banner
graphic above, a detail from Girl with Tattoos, is
by Sarah Wissink, and is used under license from
freeimages.com. The woman in the example raster
graphic in this section doesn't exist — her picture
was created by an AI at
This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com.
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