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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional Revision 8 (new this weekend)
  2.  Pagan Daybook 10 Revision 2 (second notification)
  3.  PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 5 (additional notification)
  4.  The Great Winemaking Tax Revolt Updated (second notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 9
(new this weekend)



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

  • JPEG Library: The library that reads and writes JPEG documents — or .JPG files — has been updated to the latest release. This addresses a potential stability issue, and it improves the already light-speed JPEG management in Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications.

  • Scan to View: In addition to scanning to documents, Graphic Workshop can now scan to its View window, from whence you can edit, process, crop and ultimately save your scanned images. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard when you click on the Scan button in the Graphic Workshop tool bar to use the scan to View option.

  • Print Workshop: Addresses an issue in Print Workshop that could cause it to crash if it was asked to print a paletted graphic, under some configurations of Windows.
  • JFIF Association: Adds a link to the list of associated file types to support JFIF files, an alternate extension for JPG.

  • GWS Camera Preview: Adds an option to the GWS Camera screen capture to allow your captures to be previewed before they're written to graphic files.

  • Reset Blocker: Addresses a reporting issue in the Application Reset Blocker. The Application Reset Blocker will assist you in preventing Windows from periodically resetting your selected applications for opening documents to its default choices, such as the Edge web browser and the Photos 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.




Pagan Daybook 10 Revision 2
(second notification)




Pagan Daybook 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Application Security: In our continuing determination to ensure that Pagan Daybook 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.

  • Graphic Libraries: The libraries that open graphic files for Pagan Daybook have been reviewed, line by line, until several programmers begged for a few days of differential calculus instead. They're now substantially more secure, and as such more resistant to malformed graphic files that have been crafted to install malware on your computer. They're also quicker and have smaller memory footprints.

    We urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  • Further Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and  the themes used by Pagan Daybook. Left to its own devices, this one could crash the application and potentially compromise your Windows security.

  • Screen Saver: Addresses an issue in Pagan Daybook'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     Pagan Daybook's screen saver.

  • Observance Database: Updates the observance database, addresses a few typos. The gods favor decent spelling... probably.
  • 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, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook 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 5
(additional notification)



If you build or maintain web pages and you're still using GIF animations, prepare to experience the state of the art.

PNG MNG Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Graphic Libraries: The libraries that open and save graphic files for PNG MNG Construction Set have been reviewed, line by line, until several programmers begged for a few days of differential calculus instead. They're now substantially more secure, and as such more resistant to malformed graphic files that have been crafted to install malware on your computer. They're also quicker and have smaller memory footprints.

    We urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  • Animation Workshop: The file selection panes of Animation Workshop now reference the Windows thumbnail cache to build their thumbnail graphics. Animation Workshop's user interface is way quicker.

  • Plugins: Nails a potential memory leak in the plugin interface.

  • Photostack: Addresses a problem that could cause image chunks to appear at incorrect locations when a Photostack animation was created under some configurations of Windows.
  • 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 Great Winemaking Tax Revolt Updated
(second notification)



If you feel like you're buying a round for the government every time you raise a glass of wine, it might be time to consider making your own.

Steven William Rimmer's lucid, approachable overview of home brewing has been revised and updated. Referencing the state of the art in winemaking, The Great Winemaking Tax Revolt will guide you through successfully making your own wine even if all your earlier experience in the craft involved pouring commercial moonshine from a cardboard box with a duck on the front.

It will also help you save a very large pile of taxes while you're drinking the health of your friends and family.

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