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Contents:
- GIF
Construction Set 10 Revision 2
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3 (second notification)
- Announcing
Animation Workshop 10 (additional notification)
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GIF Construction Set Professional 10
Revision 2
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GIF Construction
Set Professional 10 has been updated. This release:
- Updates
the color selection windows that appear in a
number of GIF Construction Set's animation
generators to include an editable hexadecimal
color value field. This allows colors to be
directly copied and pasted into web page HTML
documents, and between applications that support
this notation.
- Addresses a
number of issues from the initial release.
- Fixes a bug in
the Favorites window that prevented it from
opening its galleries of favorite documents under
some builds of Windows — which
largely defeated the purpose of the Favorites
window.
- Nails a
problem with the internal default document path
for GIF Construction Set Professional, which
confused a number of features which looked for
things that weren't there.
- Addresses a
number of theoretical security issues in the WebP
animation interface.
- Improves the
performance of the Shadow window.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation
logic to reduce the likelihood of GIF
Construction Set un-registering itself and
thereafter deciding that its key is already in
use because Windows 10 has silently updated
something. Hopefully this one nails the problem
until the end of time. Yes, we said that last
year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses a number of
issues in the Photo Stack animation window. Should
you have missed Photo Stack when it appeared a few
weeks ago, an example can be seen to your right.
Photo stacks will let you add your pictures,
graphics, banners or other elements to your web page
or social media as an animation that suggests a
collection of paper photographs being dropped onto a
table. If it were any cooler, it would be attracting
polar bears... and you'd have bears in your house,
which isn't wholly desirable.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
Click on the
blue button to download GIF Construction Set
Professional 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 on or after April 1,
2019, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 prior to April 1,
2019, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
Professional 10 for half the current new-user
price.
The first
time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 10, 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.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 3
(second notification)
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Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This
release:
- Redesigns
the batch Identify Mystery Files window to allow its
contents to be sorted by name, type, size and date.
This makes it a lot easier to locate the files you'd
like to identify. Should you have missed the batch
Identify Mystery Files window thus far, hold down
the Shift key on your keyboard and select Identify
Mystery Files from the Graphic Workshop Professional
10 File menu.
- Updates the color selection windows
that appear in Graphic Workshop and all its
ancillary applications to include an editable
hexadecimal color value field. This allows colors to
be directly copied and pasted into web page HTML
documents, and between applications that support
this notation.
- Improves
the performance of the Identify Mystery Files window
when it's confronted with a WebP document... of
which there appear to be more with each passing
second.
- Adds a
Windows File Explorer emulation mode to Graphic
Workshop's drag and drop functionality — it can be
enabled in the Setup → Browser → Drop Options field.
With Windows Emulation selected, dragging files
between folders on the same drive will move them,
dragging files between drives will copy them and
holding down the Ctrl key when you drag and drop
files will copy them no matter where they're going.
- Updates
Archive Manager so a Wait window appears when files
are dropped into a ZIP archive. It also fine-tunes
the user interface of its various File Open and File
Save windows.
- Further
improves the new validation logic to reduce the
likelihood of Graphic Workshop unregistering itself
due to silent Windows upgrades. We hasten to add
that since the release of Graphic Workshop
Professional 10, this has occurred precisely zero
times.
- Fixes
a bug in the Ultralight Screen Clock that could
cause some of the animated styles to display a white
rectangle in place of the leading digit for one
second at the top of each hour under some builds and
configurations of Windows.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional
10 yet, you might want to review a more extensive list
of its new
functionality and enhancements.
Click
on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional
10 for half the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, 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.
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Announcing Animation Workshop 10
(additional notification)
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We've enhanced functionality of
Animation Workshop, built out its WebP support for
breathtaking true-color web page animations, improved
its performance and generally refined it to
better get along with Windows 10. (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 10, you'll find that it:
- Builds out the WebP
support for Animation Workshop. You can now import
still images from WebP documents, and import WebP
animations. The WebP export functionality has been
refined to create better-looking final animations. Should you be
unfamiliar with WebP, it's a graphic document
format created by Google to replace PNG, JPG and
GIF. It offers lossless and lessy compression,
true color imaging and full alpha transparency.
Best of all, it's supported by all the current web
browsers.
There's an extensive discussion of
WebP at our blog.
- Updates the primary JPEG
library used by Animation
Workshop to the latest release. This
addresses several potential security and image
quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure...
bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity to stress
the importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files
on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and execute
arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your
computer.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Adds a hex
field to the color selection windows, allowing
colors to be copied and pasted between other
applications... most notably, whatever you use to
manage web pages.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic
to reduce the likelihood of Animation Workshop
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
As in years
past, when you run Animation Workshop 10 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation
of Animation
Workshop 9 and optionally copy your
existing configuration, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click
on the blue button to download Animation Workshop
10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 9 on or after May 1, 2019, you're
welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Animation
Workshop 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 9 prior to May 1, 2019, we invite
you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 10 for half
the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Animation
Workshop 10, 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.
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