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Contents:
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 11 Revision 6 (additional
notification)
- Announcing
Screen Saver Construction Set 11
- Alpha
Paint 11 Revision 3 (second
notification)
- Announcing
Pagan Daybook 11 (additional
notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11
Revision 6
(additional notification)
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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, we invite you to upgrade
to Graphic Workshop Professional 11
for half the single-user license price.
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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Announcing Screen Saver Construction
Set 11
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Screen Saver
Construction Set 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 Screen Saver
Construction Set 11, you'll find that it:
- JPG
Security: Updates the library that reads and
writes JPG documents for Screen Saver Construction
Set to address several potential security issues.
We'd like to urge all the users of Screen Saver
Construction Set to update to this release
immediately.
- WebP:
Updates the library that reads and
writes WebP documents for Screen
Saver Construction Set 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 Screen
Saver Construction Set
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 Screen
Saver Construction Set's
Setup window, allowing the default external paint
application to be selected without recourse to
editing Screen Saver Construction Set's
configuration data.
Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of
Screen
Saver Construction Set's
Setup window.
The Help button in the Select Paint window will
explain everything... trust us.
- Edge
Support: Screen Saver Construction Set
will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to
display its documentation.
- Animation
Editor: Fixes a bug in the animation object
editor Preview window, which could render animation
backgrounds incorrectly.
- 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 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.
- 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 11.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 10 on or after July
1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade
to Screen Saver
Construction Set 11.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 10 prior to July 1, 2020, we
invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver
Construction Set 11 for half
the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Screen Saver
Construction Set 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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Alpha Paint 11 Revision 3
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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 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.
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Announcing Pagan Daybook 11
(second notification)
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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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