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Contents:
- Announcing
Pagan Daybook 10
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5 (second
notification)
- Announcing
Presentation Wizard 10 (second
notification)
- Newsletter
Archive
- Replying
to this Message, List Removal and Details
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Madness,
treachery, deceit, lust, murder, vengeance...
(...and that's just the blurb on the back
cover.)
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Announcing Pagan Daybook 10
(second notification)
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Pagan Daybook
10 has
been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:
- Timeline: Adds
a Timeline window, a browseable history
of the past few hundred years. Right-click in
Pagan Daybook and select Days → Timeline to
experience it.
We hasten to add that the contents of the Timeline
window are editable, should you discover that you
prefer your perception of history to ours.
Timeline also lends itself to being re-purposed —
you can replace its somewhat global
history with your family's history, the
history of your newly-restored classic
Jag or the history of your sock
collection.
- Screen
Saver: Adds logic to the screen saver
background manager to allow full-screen
background graphics to be optionally resized rather
than tiled, so they appear without seams on displays
with unusual dimensions — laptops being the most
likely suspects.
- PNG
Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries
used by Pagan Daybook 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.
- JPEG
Security: Updates the primary JPG
libraries used by Pagan
Daybook to the
latest release. This addresses a potential
security issue.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image
libraries used by Pagan
Daybook to address a theoretical bug
that could have introduced unwanted artifacts
at the right edges of imported graphics.
- Screen
Saver: Adds a Setup option to suppress
Pagan Daybook's animation when it's displaying
itself as a screen saver, for use on slower
systems running Windows 10.
- Color
Selection: Updates the color
selection windows that appear in Pagan Daybook
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.
- Validation:
Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to
reduce the likelihood of Pagan Daybook
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.
- 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 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan
Daybook 9 on or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome
to a no-cost upgrade to Pagan Daybook 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan
Daybook 9 prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to
upgrade to Pagan Daybook 10 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you
run Pagan Daybook 10, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 5
(second notification)
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Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this
release:
- JPEG Security:
Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Graphic
Workshop and its ancillary applications to the latest
release. This addresses a potential security issue.
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.
- Quick
Thumbnails: Adds support for the Windows
thumbnail cache, this being where Windows stores
the thumbnails it uses in File Explorer. When Graphic
Workshop creates thumbnails for graphics that
Windows has previously cached, it can now do so at
something approaching light speed by accessing the
cache. It's impressive to watch.
See the discussion of Thumbnails in the Graphic
Workshop Reference document for more about this.
This feature requires Windows 10.
- Zoomed Thumbnails: Adds more
support for the Windows thumbnail cache, in this
case to Graphic Workshop's Zoomed Thumbnails display
mode. By default, it will use cached Windows
thumbnails in Zoomed mode, allowing for laser-sharp
graphics.
Especially if
your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to
experience this one. Right-click in a Graphic
Workshop browser, select Thumbnails from the
sub-menu that appears and make sure Zoom Windows
Thumbnails is enabled. Right click and select View
Mode from the sub-menu that appears and select
Zoomed Thumbnails.
This feature requires Windows 10.
- Animated PNG: Adds
viewing support for animated PNG documents. If you
double-click on one, it will play in Graphic
Workshop's View window, much as do WebP and GIF
animations. The animation that's bouncing around to
your right — assuming that whatever you're
using to read this posting supports animated PNG
— is a suitable example. Right
click on it and save it to try Graphic
Workshop's animated PNG support.
There's
a more extensive discussion of animated
PNGs at our blog.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image libraries
used by Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications —
e-Paint UltraLight, Montage, GIF Construction Set
UltraLight and so on — to address a theoretical bug
that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the
right edges of imported and saved graphics.
- Ripples Texture: Adds
Ripples to the Graphic Workshop Textures and
Fractals window. Create a faint disturbance in a
tranquil pond, or crank it up to maximum and visit
an alternate universe during lunch.
- Paste:
Addresses an issue in the Paste From Clipboard item
of Graphic Workshop's Edit menu that could cause it
to select the discrete Save As window option even if
it was configured not to.
- Multiple
Select: Improves the multiple image selection
window to handle alpha graphics correctly.
- Progress
Window: Improves the Progress window so its
scroll bar doesn't appear until a batch completes,
which is both less distracting and slightly quicker.
- Alpha
Backgrounds: Improves the management of alpha
backgrounds throughout the application, and adds a
color button in Setup to set the default alpha
background, for graphics that don't specify one.
- Performance:
Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.
- Documentation:
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.
The bouncing
ball animation was created and placed in the public
domain by Holger Will, and was
released through Wikimedia
Commons.
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Announcing Presentation Wizard 10
(second notification)
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Presentation
Wizard 10 has been updated. In this release:
- PNG Security:
Updates the primary PNG libraries used by
Presentation Wizard 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.
- JPEG
Security: Updates the primary JPG
libraries used by Presentation
Wizard to the
latest release. This addresses a potential
security issue.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image
libraries used by Presentation
Wizard to address a theoretical bug
that could have introduced unwanted artifacts
at the right edges of imported and saved
graphics.
- Color
Selection: Updates the color
selection windows that appear in Presentation
Wizard
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.
- Validation:
Enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to
reduce the likelihood of Presentation
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.
- 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 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation
Wizard 9, we invite you to upgrade to Presentation
Wizard 10 for half the single-user
license price.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
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Newsletter Archive
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The Alchemy
Mindworks web page now includes a chronological archive
of our recent newsletter postings. If you'd like to
check out the new features for one of our version 10
applications — or if you
missed a few postings — we invite you to
visit the archive.
Click on the
big blue button, below, or access the archive through
the Alchemy Mindworks web page — click on the
Support tab and then on the Newsletter Archive link.
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