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- Announcing
Graphic Workshop Professional 10
- Font Wrangler 9 Revision
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Announcing
Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been released.
We've added
new functionality to the known universe's most
popular image management application, improved its
performance, included several fresh ancillary
applications 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 Graphic Workshop
professional 10, you'll find that it:
Adds Print Workshop.
Create hard copy of your pictures with precise
size and positioning, down to the nearest
hundredth of an inch (or of a centimeter).
Effortless to configure, this is the ideal tool
for creating photographs suitable for framing,
flyers, handouts and other professional output on
paper. It can even be configured to include trim
lines and pre-press marks. Right-click on a
graphic and select Print Workshop form the menu
that appears.
- Improves
the speed of the Graphic Workshop browser windows
with predictive thumbnail caching. Once a
browser window has opened, Graphic Workshop will
take its best guess at the thumbnails you're
likely to scroll into view next and fetch them
when you're not doing anything, pretty much
eliminating any visible delay when you do get to
them. It's the sort of thing only software
developers could get excited about, but it works
really well.
Adds a set of CGI
surface textures to the Graphic Workshop
Fractals and Textures window. Create convincing
real-world surfaces, or build an exo-planet of
your own devising. These things also look
breathtaking when they appear in the Matt and
Frame function of Graphic Workshop. A few examples
of the limitless capabilities of these textures
appears to your right... admittedly squeezed into
some fairly restricted real estate.
- Adds a
batch mode to the Identify Mystery Files
function of Graphic Workshop. Hold down the Shift
key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery
Files from the File menu.
Adds The
UltraLight Screen Clock. A simplified
version of our immensely powerful and wildly
popular Ultimate Screen Clock, The UltraLight
Screen Clock will add your choice of
sophisticated digital or analog clocks to your
Windows desktop. It's cool enough to shatter
penguins and have PETA people protesting
outside your digs for a solid week.
- Addresses
a problem in Icon Editor UltraLight that
could cause its drawing cursors to blink or flash
for no apparent reason under some configurations
of Windows.
Adds
a Hexagon filter to the View mode Filters
window. Render your favorite pictures as a matrix
of six-sided interlocking tiles. Channel your
inner bee-keeper, harken back to the days of retro
floor coverings or just do geometry because you
can remember how. This one looks really cool when
it's applied to high-resolution digital camera
images. The example to your right is somewhat
space-deprived —
click on it to see a larger picture.
- Adds the
Graphic Workshop Screen Saver. Have your
computer display your choice of pictures in a
dynamic, animated slide show when your system is
idle. Run in its native application mode, the Graphic
Workshop Screen Saver also make a quick,
accessible engine to display banners and
advertisements on a large flat-screen monitor
for retail environments.
Adds Application Reset Blocker.
If you've been beset by Windows 10 periodically
flying into a panic and resetting most of the
applications you've selected to open documents to
Edge, Photos, Groove and so on, you can banish the
"app caused a problem" notification with this
intuitive tool.
Updates
the primary JPEG library used by Graphic
Workshop to the latest release. This addresses
several potential security and image quality
issues, and a few... albeit very obscure... bugs.
We'd like to take this opportunity to stress the
importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files on
your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and
execute arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on
your computer.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Recognizes
the .jpeg file extension as being valid
JPEG files.
- Adds a
second Pipes style to the Textures and
Filters window — thanks
to everyone who e-mailed about the initial
plumber's nightmare. Choose between the
Industrial and Stainless Steel styles.
- Updates
the TIFF reader logic to correctly
handle weird sixteen-bit gray-scale images
correctly. There's always one more peculiar
TIFF file.
- Fixes a
bug in the Search window that could
allow it to be reduced in size sufficiently to
obscure the Exit button under some
configurations of Windows.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation
logic to reduce the likelihood of
Graphic Workshop un-registering itself and
thereafter deciding that its key is already in
use because Windows 10 has silently updated
something. Hopefully this one nails the
problem until the end of time. Yes, we said
that last year too, but Windows 10 proved to
be sneakier than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.
- Updates
the documentation.
The Graphic
Workshop
Printed Reference has been
revised for the version 10 software, and it includes
sections for all the new functionality. It's
available through Amazon -- there's a link to it at the
Graphic Workshop web page, and you can access it
through the Get The Graphic Workshop Printed
Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu.
All the
Graphic Workshop plugins have been upgraded to
install in the version 10 software. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:
- Be sure
to uninstall the version 9 plugins before you
install Graphic Workshop Professional 10. Failing
this, Graphic Workshop Professional 10 should
prompt you to do so automatically the first time
you run it.
- You'll
need to download and install the new plugin
installers to run under Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.
If you're
using a registered copy of the Graphic Workshop RAW
Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier
release of Graphic Workshop, note that your existing
registration key will work with the version 10
plugin —
you won't have to buy it again.
As in years
past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10
for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 9 and
optionally copy your existing configuration,
so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
your open browser windows will be preserved.
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 on or after April 1, 2019,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 for half the
current new-user price.
The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10,
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.
Font Wrangler 9 Revision 2 (additional
notification)
Font Wrangler 9 has been updated. This release:
- Adds WebP support — import leading-edge
WebP graphics.
The WebP format was developed by Google. It replaces
PNG and JPEG with a twenty-first century graphics
standard.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog.
- Addresses a number of issues in the graphic export
functions of Font Wrangler.
- Addresses a number of security issues.
- Fixes a bug in the font naming logic.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.
- Updates the documentation.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for
Font Wrangler 8, we invite you to upgrade to Font
Wrangler 9 for half the current new-user price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade
page.
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