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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7
  2.  PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 2 (second notification)
  3.  Alpha Paint 10 Revision 3 (additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7



Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. Among its new and updated features are:

  • Application Security: In our continuing determination to ensure that Graphic Workshop presents no opportunities for cybercretins to exploit it, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.

    We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the current release and nail this     vulnerability before it nails you.

  • Thumbnail Pre-cache: Adds a per-browser option to enable thumbnail pre-caching only when a browser is top-most.

    Thumbnail pre-caching speeds up Graphic Workshop's browsers considerably, but it can have a substantial memory footprint for browsers looking at a lot of graphics. This refinement allows you to have it automatically enabled only for the browser you're working with at the moment.

    Right-click in a browser, select Thumbnails and select Pre-cache Thumbnails When Active to fire up this option.

  • Textures and Fractals: Adds Scratch textures to the Graphic Workshop Textures and Fractals window. Wild, unleashed and as chaotic as you want to be, Scratch suggests bad urban art applied with cheap spray paint, a dystopian landscape viewed from space by an aging reconnaissance satellite or a really badly-behaved cat.

    The example animation to your right, comprised of several variations on one Scratch texture, represents but a fraction of its capabilities.
  • View Mode Shortcuts: Hold down Ctrl in Graphic Workshop's View mode and click on the Info button in its tool bar to quickly open the Crop window.

    The View mode tool bar's button tips have been expanded to include their alternate functions enabled holding down the Shift and Ctrl keys. If you'd like to learn all their secrets, hover your mouse over each button for a moment.

  • Animated PNG: Addresses an issue in the transparency management of the animated PNG viewer.

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  • 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.




PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 2
(second notification)


PNG MNG Construction Set 10 has been substantially rewritten and expanded. If you build animations for web pages, social media or other on-line content, prepare yourself to be totally blown away.

Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Animated PNG Support: Create animated PNG documents with all the flexibility of GIF animations, and none of GIF's relentless limitations. Animated PNGs offer true color, alpha transparency, millisecond timing and leading-edge compression. More to the point, you can use them in an HTML document just as you would traditional GIF animations — they're supported by all the current web browsers.

    There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog.
  • WebP Support: The original WebP support in PNG MNG Construction Set managed WebP animations using the same user interface as MNG documents, which was somewhat complicated. WebP now has its own user interface — it's vastly simpler. As with animated PNG, WebP animations can be used in a web page just like GIFs, and WebP includes variable compression for situations wherein file size and download times are an issue.

  • Format Conversion: Convert between animated PNG, MNG and WebP animations.
  • User Interface: Pretty much every function in the application has been reviewed and improved. The various processes that required that specific chunks be selected to activate them now automatically select all the chunks in a document window if no c hunks have been explicitly selected. Numerous excluded document types are now supported. Several long-standing gremlins and demons are history.

  • Photostack: Addresses several issues in the Photostack animation generation window.

  • Resize: The Resize window resizes the Image chunk offsets as well as the image dimensions, so complex animations remain correct when their dimensions are adjusted.

  • Export to GIF: The Export to GIF functionality has been enhanced, for those situations when you need really mature technology. Some social media platforms, for example, don't like animated PNGs.
  • Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and the themes used by PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue.

  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 9, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 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.

Alpha Paint 10 Revision 3 (additional notification)


Alpha 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 Alpha 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 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.
  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by Alpha Paint to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.

  • WebP: Updates the WebP library to improve the appearance of images stored with lossy compression.
  • 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 Alpha Paint 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.




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