From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jul 5 11:49:34 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:49:34 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140705144940.E266994030A@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing Font Wrangler 5 2. Announcing Pagan Daybook 5 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) 4. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop. 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ THIS BOOK WILL FREEZE YOUR SOUL!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html (It's far more effective than an air conditioner, and waaaay cheaper.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing Font Wrangler 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Font Wrangler 5 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Font Wrangler that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW This release: - Improves the TrueType/OpenType Font construction logic, to allow for changing the typeface names of a wider range of marginal font files. - Improves the font collision detection logic, for installing and uninstalling fonts. - Addresses a number of user-interface issues. - Updates the hard-copy "font sheet" generator. - Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 4 on or after July 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Font Wrangler 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 4 prior to July 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Font Wrangler 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Font Wrangler 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler Help -> Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version menu item. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/fntkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Pagan Daybook 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Pagan Daybook 5 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Pagan Daybook that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW This release features some visible changes as well: - Adds a Preview button to the Theme editor. When you click on Preview, your current theme will be applied to the main Pagan Daybook window, so you can see what your proposed selection or the theme you're creating looks like in real life. By default, the Preview button will also determine the longest observance text based on your current typographic choices, so you can make sure none of the observances will exceed the available space in Pagan Daybook's main window if you're creating a theme with a font other than Arial. We've been trying to figure out how to implement this under version 4 for years. - Speeds up the background rendering engine and improves its final appearance. - Refines a number of user interface issues. - Improves the color management for animations. - Updates a number of text and graphic elements in the observance database. - Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Pagan Daybook 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Pagan Daybook 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 Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click menu of Pagan Daybook. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop. _______________________________________________________________________ If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked features of the known universe's most popular image management software. Graphic Workshop's ability to do practically everything that can be done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every day for years and still miss a few of its better tricks. Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account: - Resize thousands of megapixel photos to screen dimensions in a single operation. - Refine your photos with a few clicks - power up Photography Workshop. - View that downloaded graphic after all - use Identify Mystery File. - Use the Image menu Filter function to color-adjust whole batches of photos at once. - See the world through compound eyes with the Glass Block filter. - Create instant contact sheets of your photos with the Thumbnail Catalogs tool. - Add dimension to your photos with the Curl filter. - Create instant comps of your photos for distribution with the Position Only filter. - Install the MOZ JPEG plugin for really, really, really, really, really, really, small JPEGS. - Print the location, time and other metadata with your photos - see the %X macro. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 4, 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/alchemy/upgrade.html Please see http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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 Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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