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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4
  2.  Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2 (second notification)
  3.  Announcing Calendar Wizard 10 (additional notification)
  4.  Windows 7 End of Life
  5.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:

  • Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
  • Adds EXIF support for PNG files. You can view EXIF metadata stored in PNG graphics, remove it with the Secure EXIF option of the browser right-click menu and modify it using Graphic Workshop's amazing internal EXIF editor.

    You can also have EXIF metadata — such as your camera settings and your GPS location — preserved when you convert between JPG and PNG. See the section of the Graphic Workshop manual document that deals with EXIF for more about this.

  • Fixes a problem with The UltraLight Screen Clock that could cause a warning to be displayed when the clock started, depending on your build and configuration of Windows.

  • Addresses a problem with the file rename function of Graphic Workshop's browser windows, which hitherto refused to accept commas in some circumstances.

  • Updates Archive Manager to improve a number of user interface elements, and to correct several kind of embarrassing spelling errors.

  • Adds an option to Graphic Workshop's configuration to allow the image resizing filter used to display zoomed thumbnails to be specified — see
    ThumbnailZoomFilter in the Configuration document. If you use the Zoomed Thumbnail browser mode and you want to maximize its image quality, select a filter option that best suits the graphics you work with and the typical state of your eyes.

  • 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, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.



Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2
(second notification)

Alpha Paint 10 has been updated. This release:


  • Updates the color selection windows that appear in Alpha Paint  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 a number of user-interface elements in the tool box, and deals with several control fields which could accept out-of-range values, causing the software to misbehave in some situations.

  • Updates the primary PNG library used by Alpha Paint to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  • Addresses a number of issues from the initial release.

  • Further enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Alpha Paint 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.

 

Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint Professional 10.



Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 10 for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.



Announcing Calendar Wizard 10
(addtional notification)

We've enhanced functionality of Calendar Wizard, added some radical new clock styles, 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 Calendar Wizard, you'll find that it:

  • Adds a palette of frame styles to the Month editor tabs. In addition to traditional square frames, Calendar Wizard can now create gradient frames and cornered frames, as are illustrated to your right.

    This represents a mere fraction of the calendar styles you can create with the new frame styles.

    To access the new frames, open a Month edit window and click on the Heading tab.

    The Heading tab in Calendar Wizard 10 also includes a Line Size field, to allow you to specify the line weight from frames.

  • Updates the user interface of the Year and Month editors. In previous editions of Calendar Wizard, it was possible to enter out-of-range values in the numeric fields of the editors under some builds of Windows... which could result in some pretty weird calendars.

  • Updates the Print Dodecahedral calendar logic, that will render your calendars as twelve-sized desk toys that can be printed, cut out and folded into three-dimensional objects.

    There were a few printer inconsistencies in the previous edition that turned up on some output devices.

    Should the dodecahedral calendar option have thus far eluded notice, there's an example shown here prior to the application of scissors and tape. It takes about five minutes to cut one out and assemble it... and then most of the following year to stop playing with it.

    We hasten to add that you can choose the design elements in
    dodecahedral calendars — this includes adding pictures or textures to their faces, in place of the solid color illustrated in this posting.

  • Updates the JPEG library used by Calendar Wizard 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.
  • Further enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard 10 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard 10.

Note that in addition to installing Calendar Wizard, you'll probably also want to install Calendar Wizard Extra Styles library, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles, including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is also accessible through this big blue button.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 9 on or after June 1, 2019, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Calendar Wizard 10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 9 prior to June 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 10 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Calendar Wizard 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.


Windows 7 End of Life

In a little under two weeks, Windows 7 will reach its end of life. Security updates, bug fixes, malware protection and virus signatures will no longer be forthcoming from Microsoft. Windows 7 will become the province of the wildly adventurous and the clinically insane.

It was our favorite version of Windows too, and we hate to see it go.

In the event that you'll be upgrading to Windows 10 and you find yourself still running versions 4 or 5 of Graphic Workshop, GIF Construction Set or any of the other Alchemy Mindworks applications with a decade or so on their clocks, we'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to upgrade to version 10.

Doing so will:
  • Get you all the latest functionality of our current releases.

  • Avail you of our aggressive security updates.

  • Avoid some serious profanity, because the version 4 and 5 software predates Windows 10, and as such doesn't install or run under it.
While the reduced-price upgrade window for these older applications expired ages ago, from now until January 14, 2020 — this date being the official last waltz for Windows 7 — we'd like to offer registered users of our version 4 and 5 software half-price upgrades to version 10.

Click on the big blue button and use the Software Upgrades section of our e-commerce page. If you encounter a message to the effect that half-price upgrades are only available for users of version 9 and 10, you can safely ignore it.


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