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 Contents:

  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6 (additional notification)
  2.  Alpha Paint 11 Revision 3
  3.  Announcing Pagan Daybook 11 (second notification)
  4.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
We'd like to take this opportunity to wish all the users of our software the very best of the festive season, whatever it's called in your house.

May this time bring you joy, the comfort of family, the serenity of the closing of the year, and no socks.

Let us all hope for a better 2021.

Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6
(additional notification)



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.



Alpha Paint 11 Revision 3


Alpha Paint 11 has been updated. In this release:


  • Text Tool: Updates the typographic controls in the Text tool to make them more intuitive and generally cooler.

  • WebP: Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for Alpha Paint 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 Alpha Paint to update to this release immediately.

  • Toolbox: Addresses a number of issues in the drawing tools user interface.

  • Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
  • Documentation: Updates the documentation.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 11 for half the single-user license price.

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




Announcing Pagan Daybook 11
(second notification)


Pagan Daybook 11 has been released. Among its new and enhanced features are:

  • Sound Effects: Adds optional sound effects to Pagan Daybook's screen saver. It can beep and crash and zap and generally express itself whenever the moving window changes direction, appears or otherwise does something interesting.

    You can enable or disable screen saver sounds in the Application tab of     Pagan Daybook's Setup window. Click on the Sounds button therein to configure your choice of the substantial internal library of sound effects, or import your own.

  • Saver Backgrounds: Adds a number of new screen saver background graphics fresh from an alternate universe. Right-click in Pagan Daybook and select Select Screen Saver, and then click on Transitions to experience the entire library.

    In addition to fractal textures and other abstract content,     Pagan Daybook can use photographs as its screen saver backgrounds. We've added a few examples to the library of backgrounds. No wolves were harmed in the making of this application — and happily, no photographers.

    Right-click in the Transitions list to see what its items look like as full-screen graphics.

  • Observance Database: The pictures in the observance database have been reviewed. In a number of entries, we returned to the original art and updated the database with sharper and more vivid graphics.

  • Windows 10 Performance: Slower computers running Windows 10 can cause the movement of the Pagan Daybook window in its screen saver to become erratic. The logic that drives the window has been improved to minimize this. If you continue to encounter the screen saver staggering across your screen like a drunken reveler, enable the Suppress Screen Saver Animation option in Setup. This will — as its name implies — stop the small animation in the lower right corner of the Pagan Daybook window from moving. It will also prevent Pagan Daybook from updating its time and date once per second while the screen saver is visible, which was hitherto a substantial part of the problem.

  • JPEG: Updates the library that reads JPG documents for Pagan Daybook to address several potential security issues.

    We'd like to urge all the users of     Pagan Daybook to update to this release immediately.

  • WebP: Updates the library that reads and writes WebP documents for Pagan Daybook and its ancillary applications to address several potential security issues. It also improves the image quality of WebP graphics.
  • Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for The Pagan Daybook 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.

  • Cursor: Fixes a bug that could cause a Windows cursor to appear momentarily when the screen saver moved across your desktop, 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 Pagan Daybook 11.


Upgrades

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

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

The first time you run Pagan Daybook 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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