From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 7 09:00:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140607140403.7137F940A21@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 (Second Notification) 3. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 5 (Additional Notification) 4. Run Alchemy Mindworks Software on a Macintosh - Updated (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Alchemy Mindworks accepts no responsibility for any really weird dreams you experience after reading this book. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html (Ditto if you wake up to find that half your lawyer's missing.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Find in Browser feature. Select Find In Browser from the right-click menu of a Graphic Workshop browser window and you'll be looking at a field to enter a search key. Quickly locate and step through each file in your current browser that matches your key. This is first of the (entirely too many) features we wanted to implement under the version 4 architecture, and couldn't. - Adds a new filter to the Filter window in View mode. Check out Light Box. It turns digital photographs into eyecatching color halftones. - Fixes a number of minor issues with the initial build of e-Paint UltraLight - 'specially the ones that made the tool palette lose its mind under some builds of Windows. - Addresses an number of user interface and run-time issues in Graphic Workshop itself... mostly having to do with the step up to version 5. - Improves the Properties window in the crop function. - Improves the GWS Camera screen capture to allow it to snag a variety of unconventional windows that used to fox it. - Fixes a minor bug in the Halftone filter. - Fixes a bug in the toggled zoom feature of the View window. - Updates the documentation. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of Graphic Workshop to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can be installed right over the previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the previous software as part of the install. While we're just tickled with how well this worked in house, we are aware that some third-party install managers and security applications meddle with the software installation process, and in so doing might break our clever innovation. If you encounter any issues with installing this release of Graphic Workshop, please let us know what happened. We hasten to add that you'll still need to click on the Enter Your Registration Key button in the opening window of the newly updated Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed Graphic Workshop to save your key to disk last time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the "thank you" window. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5. ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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. ........................................................................ 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 ........................................................................ 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 ........................................................................ 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 5 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 ........................................................................ 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 ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Run Alchemy Mindworks Software on a Macintosh - Updated (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Do not reply to this message - all returned or replied messages from this posting will be ignored by the server. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html and unsubscribe from the list. ....................................................................... 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