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 Contents:

  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6 (new this weekend)
  2.  Announcing Calendar Wizard 11 (second notification)
  3.  Announcing Animation Workshop 11 (additional notification)
  4.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
T'is the season of good cheer, orange elves
and holiday music until your head explodes.

All that's missing are a few well-armed barbarians.

Click on the book.

Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6
(new this weekend)



Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been updated. In this release:

  • WebP: Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to address several potential security issues.

    It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics.

    We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release immediately.

  • Caption: Adds underline and strikeout text options to the new Caption window, and keyboard shortcuts for all the typographic controls.

  • Typography: Updates the typographic controls in Graphic Workshop's Caption and Watermark windows and the corresponding Caption and Watermark filters; in the Text object editor of Animation Workshop UltraLight; in the Caption window of GWS Camera Screen Capture and in the Image editor window of Montage UltraLight to make them more intuitive.

  • Animation Workshop: Fixes a bug in the toolbar of Animation Workshop UltraLight that hitherto caused the ? button to open the wrong document.

  • Ultralight Screen Clock: Fixes a bug that could prevent the clock from accessing its styles 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.


If you haven't experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 11 as yet, please see its initial release announcement for a list of all its new and enhanced functionality.


Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.


You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link.



Announcing Calendar Wizard 11
(second notification)



We've enhanced functionality of Calendar Wizard, added some radical new clock styles, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to Calendar Wizard, you'll find that it:

  • JPG Security: Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Calendar Wizard to address several potential security issues.

    We'd like to urge all the users of     Calendar Wizard to update to this release immediately.

  • Image Libraries: All the libraries that read graphics for Calendar Wizard have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.

  • Paint: Adds a Select Paint button to Animation Workshop's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Calendar Wizard's configuration data.

    Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of     Calendar Wizard's Setup window.

    The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us.

  • Alternate Paint: If you have registered the current release of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in Calendar Wizard to call for one of these alternate paint applications.

  • User Interface: Updates the typographic controls in the Edit Month and Edit year windows to make them cooler and more intuitive.

  • Print Dodecahedral: Updates the Print Dodecahedral calendar logic to render your calendars as twelve-sized desk toys that can be printed, cut out and folded into three-dimensional objects.

    There were a few printer inconsistencies in the previous edition that turned up on some output devices.

    Should the dodecahedral calendar option have thus far eluded notice, there's an example shown here prior to the application of scissors and tape. It takes about five minutes to cut one out and assemble it... and then most of the following year to stop playing with it.

    We hasten to add that you can choose the design elements in
    dodecahedral calendars — this includes adding pictures or textures to their faces, in place of the solid color illustrated in this posting.

  • File Open: Fixes a bug in the File Open window that could prevent it from remembering its size under some configurations of Windows.

  • Window: Updates the screen logic to prevent Calendar Wizard's application window from flashing when it first opens a calendar, hitherto an issue 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.

As in years past, when you run Calendar Wizard 11 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Calendar Wizard 10 and optionally copy your existing configuration, so you won't have to set everything up by hand.


Click on the blue button to download Calendar Wizard 11.




Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 10 on or after June 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Calendar Wizard 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 10 prior to June 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar Wizard 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Calendar Wizard 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.


You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link.

Announcing Animation Workshop 11
(additional notification)


Animation Workshop 11 has been released. We've further refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to Animation Workshop 11, you'll find that it:

  • JPG Security: Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Animation Workshop to address several potential security issues.

    We'd like to urge all the users of     Animation Workshop to update to this release immediately.

  • Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for Animation Workshop have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.

  • Talkies: The Export to AVI and Export to MOV options can now add a sound track of your choice to digital video created from your animations.
  • Paint: Adds a Select Paint button to Animation Workshop's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Animation Workshop's configuration data.

    Click on Select Paint in the Display tab of     Animation Workshop's Setup window.

    The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us.

  • Alternate Paint: If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, Alpha Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in Animation Workshop to call for one of these alternate paint applications. The alternate paint selection logic will call e-Paint for graphics without alpha transparency, and Alpha Paint for graphics that have alpha transparency.

  • Rich Text: Adds Rich Text objects to Animation Workshop. Include text with multiple font changes, typographic effects and colors in your animations.
  • Edge Support: Animation Workshop will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation.
  • 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 Animation Workshop 11.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 10 on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Animation Workshop 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 10 prior to May 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Animation Workshop 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.


You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link.


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