From newsletter at mindworkshop.com Fri Mar 21 10:01:57 2014 From: newsletter at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:01:57 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Posting Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20140425100157.01bf0341@localhost> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message was sent to: RECIPIENT: %%EMAIL%% on %%TIMESTAMP%% Contents: 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 4 Patch 32 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 (Second Notification) 3. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4 (Second Notification) 4. 10 Percent Off Everything... Sort Of 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't let your children near this book!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html (They'll probably delete it when they find it doesn't run on a PlayStation.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 4 Patch 32 _______________________________________________________________________ This release of GIF Construction Set Professional 4: - Rewrites the Crop function, with an adjustable selection rectangle and a more informative and intuitive user interface. It's also somewhat quicker. - Fixes a bug in the Display Panel function. It was obscure and remarkably well disguised, but we found it and... let's just say that things didn't end well for it. - Adds edit lists to several windows around the application, to remember and reuse things typed into them. - Updates the plugin interface with several new features too technical to describe... 'cept they're necessary for the next update to the plugin library. - Addresses an issue in the driver for the GIF Construction Set document windows, such that the Image block thumbnails update way quicker, and with far more modest demand on your system resources. - Fine-tunes the Animation Wizard window. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that the development people couldn't resist meddling with. - Updates the documentation. ........................................................................ GIF Construction Set Professional 4 is available for download at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ If you're still using GIF Construction Set 3.0, you can still upgrade to the new version 4 software for half price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 4 has been updated. This release: - Rewrites the Crop function. It now supports a fully interactive selection rectangle and an Apply to Batch option, to allow it to crop multiple images to the same dimensions in a single operation. It's also somewhat quicker. - Fixes a bug in the Supercompressor that prevented it from properly analyzing JPG files under some builds of Windows. - Adds JPG subsampling to the Supercompressor. - Adds a Shape Mask filter, to frame the subjects of your pictures with stars, octagons, star bursts and other geometric shapes. - Adds an Alpha Shadow filter to apply soft shadows to irregularly- shaped objects with alpha transparency. - Adds support for the MOZ JPEG plugin, discussed in the next section of this posting. - Updates the EXIF decoder to format a number of its fields more intuitively. - Adds EXIF field support to the titles printed by the Print, Watermark and Contact Sheet functions. - Adds drop down lists to remember the contents of fields typed into a number of Graphic Workshop's user interface windows... and hopefully to save some keystrokes. - Fixes a bug in the SWF Flash writer. - Performs some cosmetic housekeeping on a number of Graphic Workshop's internal windows. - Improves the usual GDI and performance things that programmers just can't resist noodling with. - Includes the usual library maintenance and security trolls and demons. - Updates the documentation. The world's most popular Windows image management package supports over seventy graphic formats, batch processing, a rich library of filters, thumbnails, an intuitive user interface, lucid documentation and almost enough sunflowers to cheer up an economist. You can download a copy from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 3, we invite you to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The MOZ JPEG plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to write the smallest possible JPG files. The functionality that drives the MOZ JPEG plugin was developed by Mozilla, the creators of the exemplary Firefox web browser. It uses sophisticated enhancements to conventional JPEG logic to create JPG files that are typically about ten percent smaller than files written by Graphic Workshop's internal JPG processor, with no loss of image quality. This plugin is available at no cost for users of Graphic Workshop Professional 4. You'll need the latest release of Graphic Workshop, above, to support it. Please see the discussion of JPG files in the Formats document of the Graphic Workshop manual for more about the MOZ JPEG processor. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ to download this plugin. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Percent Off Everything... Sort Of _______________________________________________________________________ At the moment, all our products are still priced in Canadian dollars. The value of the Canadian dollar has slipped considerably of late against most of the world's other currencies. If you're living outside the land of moose, flat beer and high taxes - in the United States, for example - you'll enjoy a meaningful discount on our products at the moment, because of the currency exchange rate. Plan on something like an effective 10 percent savings, depending on where you are and how rapacious your bank is. As an example, Graphic Workshop, at $44.99 (CDN), would work out to about $40.00 (US) when it hits your credit card. We hasten to add that this situation probably won't stick around for long. Our e-commerce page can be found at: https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html We should note that this pricing also applies to our products ordered though our toll-free order line at 1-800-263-1138, and to our products paid by PayPal. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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