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Contents:
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7 (additional notification)
- Presentation
Wizard 10 Revision 2
- PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 Revision 3 (new this weekend)
- The
Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2 (second
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 7
(additional notification)
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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, 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.
- 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.
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Presentation Wizard 10 Revision 2
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Presentation
Wizard 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced
features are:
- Animated PNG:
Presentation Wizard now supports animated PNG in
its animation import functionality, an example of
which appears to your right. Enjoy the state of
the art in animation... and let GIF become a
distant memory possibly resulting from eating the
wrong kind of mushrooms.
- Animation
Engine: Presentation Wizard's animation
engine has been refined, improved and accelerated
past the speed of light. It's tighter, more
accurate and bereft of a few bugs that crept into
earlier releases.
- JPEG
Security: Updates the primary JPG
libraries used by Presentation
Wizard 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.
- PNG
Security: Updates the primary PNG
libraries used by Presentation
Wizard to the
latest release. This addresses several
potential security and image quality issues.
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic and themes used by Presentation
Wizard. Left to its own devices,
this one could crash these applications and
potentially compromise your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to
ensure that Presentation Wizard
presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, 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 users of Presentation
Wizard to update to the current
release and nail these vulnerabilities before they
nail you.
- Legacy
Windows: Support for Windows screen drivers
with eight or fewer bits of color has been removed
from Presentation Wizard and its document
run-time. This has made the run-time somewhat
smaller and substantially faster when it's asked
to display still or animated graphics. Eight-bit
Windows screen drivers haven't been a thing since
the turn of the century — they won't
be missed.
- 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.
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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PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 4
(new this
weekend)
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PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
- Frame:
An issue with the Frame window that prevented it
from correctly adding frames to WebP animations
has been addressed.
- Animation
Wizard: A configuration issue with Animation
Wizard which caused it to create animations in
which all the frames were completely transparent
if the Use As Is option was selected and Preserve
Transparency was enabled has been nailed.
- Eyedropper:
A big that caused the Eyedropper color selector in
the Transparency editor for still PNG documents to
malfunction has been fixed.
- Photostack:
The Photostack window now has an anti-alias option
to improve its drawing quality — a lot.
- Performance:
Addresses a number of GDI and performance
issues that software developers never really stop
meddling with.
- Documentation:
Updates the documentation.
If you missed
the previous update for PNG MNG Construction Set 10,
we invite you to check out its new and
enhanced functionality — it totally rocks.
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.
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The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision
2
(second notification)
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The Ultimate
Screen Clock 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
- Oracle Style: Adds
the Oracle clock style, a dark, sinister and
evocative feature for any desktop. The Oracle style
comes in two sizes, each one with enough attitude to
divert a raging bull elephant and convince it to
pursue a career in glassblowing. Your mileage may
vary, but if you do get the whole elephant thing to
work out, we'd be interested in seeing your videos.
We hasten to add that the clock illustrated here is
an animation, not actual software. The odds of it
happening to be telling you the correct time as you
read this are really, really long.
- Screen
Saver: Addresses an issue in The Ultimate
Screen Clock's screen saver which could cause it to
display some textured backgrounds with incomplete
tiling under some configurations of Windows.
This update also adds a number of new background
textures for The Ultimate Screen Clock's screen
saver.
- Application
Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy
and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the
internal configuration logic used by The Ultimate
Screen Clock. Left to its own devices, this one
could crash these applications and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to
ensure that The Ultimate Screen Clock presents no
opportunities for cybercretins to exploit, 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 users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to
update to the current release and nail these
vulnerabilities before they nail you.
- Pressure Style: Adds the
Pressure style, in two sizes and lots of colors, as
illustrated here. Its digits appearing to have been
pressed from the sort of single-use plastic that
sends green people into low Earth orbit, the
Pressure style is cheerful, insouciant and probably
soon to be made illegal on the west coast.
- Dissolve:
Adds dissolve animated options to selected
digital clock styles. Rather than simply changing
digits, many of The Ultimate Screen Clock's digital
styles can also dissolve between them. The dissolve
effect is subtle but intriguing. Select the digital
dissolve options in the clock style window to see
this one at work. Note that most of the dissolve
options are installed by the newly-updated extra
styles library.
- 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 The Ultimate Screen
Clock 10.
Extra Styles
In addition to
The Ultimate Screen Clock itself, the extra styles
library for The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 has also been
updated. Its download buttons can be found by clicking
on the above DOWNLOAD NOW button, right after those of
the clock itself. We recommend that users of The
Ultimate Screen Clock also install the new extra styles
library to access its full palette of available clock
styles.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 9, we invite you to upgrade to The
Ultimate Screen Clock 10 for half the single-user
license price.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
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