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- Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 6 (additional notification)
- GIF
Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3
- e-Paint
10 Revision 3 (second notification)
- Announcing
Font Wrangler 10 (additional
notification)
- Replying
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 6
(additional notification)
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Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. In this
release:
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic, the browser window
navigation panes and the themes used by Graphic
Workshop and its ancillary applications. Left to its
own devices, this one could crash these applications
and potentially compromise your Windows security.
We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the
current release and nail this vulnerability
before it nails you.
- View
Mode Mystery Files: Adds functionality to
Graphic Workshop's View mode to automatically run
Identify Mystery Files if you attempt to view a
picture and it proves to be unreadable. This is a
common issue with graphics downloaded from the
Internet, which not infrequently arrive with
incorrect extensions. The View logic will prompt you
if you encounter such a file, and optionally rename
it and proceed to open it in View.
This also works if you associate Graphic Workshop
with one or more of the file types it knows how to
open, and subsequently double-click on one in
another application, such as File Explorer.
- Quicker
Zoomed Thumbnails: Improves the
Zoomed Thumbnails display mode. The previous Graphic
Workshop update added support for high-resolution
graphics thumbnails. This one integrates them into
the browser window caching logic, so the zoomed
thumbnail mode is substantially faster and more
responsive.
Especially if
your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to
experience this. 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.
- Thumbnail
Pre-cache: Adds an option to disable thumbnail
pre-caching for selected browsers. A brief
explanation follows — grab something solid.
When Graphic Workshop first opens a browser — for
example, when it boots up — it will show you
thumbnails for as many files as will fit in the
window. It will thereafter pre-cache thumbnails,
silently loading them during moments when it's idle,
such that when you scroll your browser, there won't
be a noticeable delay as it fetches its thumbnails
from disk.
This feature can be enabled or disabled for the
entire application in the Setup window.
This upgrade adds an item to the browser right-click
→ Thumbnails menu to disable pre-caching for
selected browser windows. You might wish to do this
if you keep multiple browsers open in Graphic
Workshop and some of them point to folders with a
large number of pictures in them, or to folders you
don't look at particularly often. Doing so will
reduce Graphic Workshop's memory footprint.
- Animated PNG: Improves the
timing accuracy of Graphic Workshop's new animated
PNG viewer, and deals with a few weird-beard
animated PNG files that we encountered.
- Association
Wizard: Removes Graphic Workshop's
Association Wizard, which hitherto would associate
your choice of graphic file types with Graphic
Workshop, so Graphic Workshop could serve as a
viewer from other applications, such as File
Explorer.
Recent changes to Windows appear to have broken
Association Wizard, possibly irretrievably.
We hasten to add that you can still associate file
types with Graphic Workshop through File
Explorer's Open With window. This is somewhat more
intuitive than Association Wizard, and totally
bulletproof.
Please see the Associating File Types with Graphic
Workshop section of the Reference document of
Graphic Workshop's manual for an updated
discussion of how to handle file association.
- Windows
Libraries: Adds fields to the Application
tab of the Graphic Workshop Setup window to allow
you to customize the names used for Windows'
public and private libraries and folders as they
appear in Graphic Workshop's browser navigation
panes.
- 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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GIF Construction Set Professional 10
Revision 4
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GIF Construction
Set 10 has been updated. Among
its new and enhanced features are:
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic and the themes used by
GIF Construction Set. Left to its own devices, this
one could crash the application and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
- PNG
Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries
used by GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set to the latest release.
This addresses a potential security issue.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image libraries
used by GIF Construction Set to address a
theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted
artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.
- 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 GIF Construction
Set 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set 9, we invite you to upgrade to GIF
Construction Set 10 for half the
single-user license price.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
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e-Paint 10 Revision 3 (second
notification)
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e-Paint 10 has
been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic and the themes used by
e-Paint. Left to its own devices, this one could
crash the application and potentially compromise
your Windows security.
- PNG
Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries
used by e-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.
- JPEG
Security: Updates the primary JPG libraries
used by e-Paint to the latest release. This
addresses a potential security issue.
- Ripples Texture: Adds
Ripples to the e-Paint CGI Textures window. Create a
faint disturbance in a tranquil pond, or crank it up
to maximum and visit an alternate universe during
lunch.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image libraries
used by e-Paint to address a theoretical bug that
could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the
right edges of imported and saved graphics.
- Association
Wizard: Removes file type association from
e-Paint's Association Wizard, which hitherto would
associate your choice of graphic file types with
e-Paint, so e-Paint could serve as a viewer and
editor from other applications, such as File
Explorer.
Recent changes to Windows appear to have broken this
function of Association Wizard, possibly
irretrievably.
Association Wizard is still available to configure
other Alchemy Mindworks applications, such as
Graphic Workshop and Presentation Wizard, to call
e-Paint as their default paint application.
We hasten to add that you can still associate file
types with e-Paint through File Explorer's Open With
window. This is somewhat more intuitive than
Association Wizard, and totally bulletproof.
Please see the Association Wizard and File
Association section of the Reference document of
e-Paint's manual for an updated discussion of how to
handle file association.
- 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 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint
9, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 10
for half the single-user license price.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
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Announcing Font Wrangler 10 (second notification)
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Font Wrangler
10 has
been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic and the themes used by
Font Wrangler. Left to its own devices, this one
could crash the application and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
- PNG Security:
Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Font
Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler to the latest release. This
addresses a potential security issue.
- Image
Libraries: Updates all the image libraries
used by Font Wrangler to address a theoretical bug
that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the
right edges of imported graphics.
- Color Selection: Updates
the color selection windows that appear in Font
Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler
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 Font Wrangler 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Font
Wrangler 9 on or after October 1, 2019, you're welcome
to a no-cost upgrade to Font Wrangler 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Font
Wrangler 9 prior to October 1, 2019, we invite you to
upgrade to Font Wrangler 10 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you
run Font Wrangler 10, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
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