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Contents:
- Graphic Workshop
Professional 15 Revision 7 (additional
notification)
- PNG MNG Construction Set
15 Revision 3
- Presentation Wizard 15
Revision 2 (second notification)
- Alchemy Mindworks Trusted
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 15 Revision 7
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Graphic Workshop Professional 15
has been updated.
In this release:
 JPEG: The Graphic Workshop JPEG library has
been updated to version 3.0.2 to address a security
issue. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to 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.
The current version of the PNG library is now available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.41.
 Matrix: A
bug in the Graphic Workshop Matrix window that could
cause it to use low-resolution images and create very
fuzzy matrices as a result under some configurations
of Windows has been mercilessly, and entirely,
stomped.
This was a very sneaky and invidious bug.
- 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 Graphic Workshop.
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 in Graphic
Workshop'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.
- View Mode Filters: The Open and Save
logic for the View
mode Filters window has been updated to address a
number of Windows issues. Depending on your
configuration of Windows, it hitherto could have
refused to recognize filter types with spaces in their
names.
The resolution for this issue was to replace all the
spaces in the Open and Save file extensions with
underscores. If you have any saved filters, you might
need to either manually rename their file extensions
or select All Files in the Filter Open window to find
them.
The Open logic has also been updated to address an
issue wherein newly opened filters didn't always
update their respective controls correctly.
- AVI:
Several issues in Graphic Workshop's AVI file handling
that could cause it to misbehave when it was reading
or writing very large AVI documents have been
addressed. The documentation for AVI in the list of
formats has been updated as well.
- Presentation
Wizard UltraLight: An issue that could cause the
client area of the Presentation Wizard UltraLight page
view and editing windows to be calculated incorrectly
under some configutaions of Windows has been
addressed.
- Calendar
Wizard UltraLight: Nails a bug that caused the
traditional Alchemy Mindworks soft buttons in Calendar
Wizard's windows to be displayed as hard-edged Windows
buttons. Admittedly, this was unlikely to bring about
the immediate demise of civilization as we know it,
but now it's history.
- 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 people in the example
Matrix graphic in this section don't exist — their
pictures were created by an AI at
This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com.
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PNG MNG Construction
Set 15 Revision 3
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PNG MNG Construction Set has been
updated.
In this release:
- JPEG: The PNG MNG Construction Set JPEG library has
been updated to version 3.0.2 to address a security
issue. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set to update to 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.
The current version of the PNG library is now available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.41.
- 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 PNG MNG Construction Set.
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 in PNG MNG Construction Set'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.
- Animated PNG
Writer: A bug in the animated PNG writer logic
that could cause animations with finite numbers of
loops to be written with infinite looping has been
demolished.
- Click to Close:
A number of windows around PNG MNG Construction Set
that can be closed by clicking outside them — most notably the
View windows — have been updated
to address a problem that prevented them from being
dragged to anywhere other than the center of the
screen.
- 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 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 PNG
MNG Construction Set 14, we invite you to
upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 15
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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Presentation Wizard 15
Revision 2
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Presentation Wizard 15 has been
updated.
In this release:
- JPEG: The Presentation Wizard JPEG library has
been updated to version 3.0.2 to address a security
issue. We'd like to take
this opportunity to urge all users of Presentation Wizard to update to this
release.
PNG
Security: The Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard to update to this
release.
The current version of the PNG library is now available
in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.41.
- 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 Presentation Wizard.
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 in Presentation Wizard'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.
- Page Editor:
A bug in the page editor that could see all the
objects on a page spontaneously disappear for no
apparent reason under some configurations of Windows
has been dispatched.
- Save Document:
An issue with the Presentation file save logic that
could corrupt the page object lists of documents under
some configurations of Windows... resulting in some
very weirdly misplaced objects thereafter... is
history.
- Drawing
Engine: A number of metrics and details have been
improved in the Presentation drawing engines for
Presentation Wizard.
- 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 Presentation Wizard
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 Presentation Wizard 14, we invite you to
upgrade to Presentation Wizard 15 for half the current
new-user price.
Click on the blue
button below to visit the upgrade page.
The bear was created by Eugen
Buzuk of icondrawer.com, and is used under license.
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Alchemy Mindworks
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The instructions for installing the Alchemy
Mindworks trusted certificate have now been updated
to include a detailed discussion of doing so under Windows
11.
If you haven't installed the certificate
previously, we urge you to click on the foregoing link.
While you're busy ridding your computer of
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disable its Smart
Screen blue window of doom as well, another
questionable security feature that's probably beset you
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software, the security thereof or the issue of code
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