[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat May 31 09:00:00 EDT 2014







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     Contents:

     1. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5

     2. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 5 (Second Notification)

     3. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Additional Notification)

     4. Run Alchemy Mindworks Software on a Macintosh - Updated

     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal





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     1. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 5 
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     PNG MNG Construction Set 5 has been released. 

     We've refined the internal architecture of PNG MNG Construction Set 
     to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take 
     advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

     While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in PNG MNG 
     Construction Set 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release 
     will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that 
     call for significant system resources, such as building animations.
     
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     PNG MNG Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely impossible 
     under version 4.



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     WHAT'S NEW


     This release features some visible changes as well:


     - The Crop window has been refined, with a better user interface and 
       the addition of a Properties window to allow the crop dimensions to 
       be set numerically.

     - The animation driver has been rewritten to make its timing more 
       accurate... which is to say, way more accurate than the animation
       timing of most web browsers.

     - The color management in Animation Wizard has been improved.
       
     - PNG MNG Construction Set requires less memory to run, which will 
       make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit 
       speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources.


     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download PNG MNG Construction Set 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction 
     Set 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to 
     PNG MNG Construction Set 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction 
     Set 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction 
     Set 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set 5, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 4 
     on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you 
     which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the 
     Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of PNG MNG 
     Construction Set 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   


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     PLUGINS


     All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have
     been upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 5.

     If you have registered animation plugins for a previous release of 
     PNG MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still 
     valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installers for the 
     plugins in question.

     All the animation plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html

     Note that you will need to uninstall your version 4 plugins before you
     install the version 5 upgrades.



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     2. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 5 (Second Notification)
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     GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been released. 

     We've refined the internal architecture of GIF Construction Set 
     Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able 
     to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

     While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release 
     will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that 
     call for significant system resources, such as building animations.
     
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     GIF Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely impossible 
     under version 4.



     ........................................................................


     WHAT'S NEW


     This release features some visible changes as well:


     - The Crop window has been refined, with a better user interface and 
       the addition of a Properties window to allow the crop dimensions to 
       be set numerically.

     - The animation driver has been rewritten to make its timing more 
       accurate... which is to say, way more accurate than the animation
       timing of most web browsers.

     - The color management in Animation Wizard has been improved.
       
     - GIF Construction Set requires less memory to run, which will make it 
       and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier, 
       especially on systems with limited system resources.


     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 
     Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 
     Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 
     on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you 
     which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the 
     Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   


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     PLUGINS


     All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
     been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 5.

     If you have registered animation plugins for a previous release of GIF 
     Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. 
     You'll just need to download the version 5 installers for the plugins
     in question.

     All the animation plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html

     Note that you will need to uninstall your version 4 plugins before you
     install the version 5 upgrades.

     The GIF Construction Set Tutorial has also been updated. It's 
     available at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcstutorial.html




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     2. Announcing e-Paint 5 (Second Notification)
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     e-Paint 5 has been released.

     As with Graphic Workshop Professional 5, we've refined the internal 
     architecture of e-Paint to make it faster, more memory-efficient and 
     better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and 
     Windows 8.
 
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     e-Paint that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4.

     This release addresses a number of user interface issues that were
     somewhat intransigent in version 4, especially several problems with
     the tool palette window.

     Users of e-Paint 5 should notice a degree of improvement in the 
     performance of its drawing tools.

     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download e-Paint 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 on or after 
     May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 prior to 
     May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to e-Paint 5 for half the cost of a new 
     single-user license.

     When you first run e-Paint 5, it will check to see if you have a 
     registration for e-Paint 4 on your system. If it finds one, it will 
     display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is 
     applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and 
     request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of e-Paint 5's 
     menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   



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     3. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Additional Notification)
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been released. 

     We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able 
     to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

     While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
     notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call
     for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management.
     
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under 
     version 4.



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     WHAT'S NEW


     This release features some visible changes as well:

     - Graphic Workshop Professional 5 now includes e-Paint UltraLight, a 
       simplified version of our popular painting and digital darkroom 
       application.

     - The Crop window has been refined, with a better user interface and 
       the addition of a Properties window to allow the crop dimensions to 
       be set numerically.

     - The aforementioned thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser
       windows is considerably quicker.

     - Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster.

     - Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it 
       and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier, 
       especially on systems with limited system resources.

     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your 
     system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of 
     the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
     to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   


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     PLUGINS


     Almost all the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have
     been upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 5 - the 
     exception is the JPEG 2000 plugin, which will probably be a few days
     getting through the pipe. 

     If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
     release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
     valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
     plugin.

     All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html




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     4. Run Alchemy Mindworks Software on a Macintosh - Updated
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     Macintosh computers are cool and elegant and as fashionable as a
     hand-crafted designer salad with holographic radishes. Unfortunately,
     only about seven or eight percent of the personal computers in the 
     known universe run OSX. 

     That Macs cost about three times what a comparable Windows system would 
     beat up your credit card for could to some small degree account for 
     this.

     As much as we'd like to rewrite Graphic Workshop, GIF Construction Set,
     The Ultimate Screen Clock and the many other popular Alchemy Mindworks
     applications to be one with Macs, it's not likely to happen any time 
     soon.

     This doesn't mean that you can't run our software on your Mac. however.

     Read our updated guide to installing the no-cost open-source Wine
     compatibility library on your Macintosh, and thereafter having 
     access to a vast wealth of Windows software, including most of ours.

     You won't even need to buy a license for Windows.

     We too were shocked when this worked.

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/macintosh.html




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