[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Aug 2 09:34:00 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 2
2. Announcing Presentation Wizard 5 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 3 (Additional Notification)
4. Steven William Rimmer's Novels Now Available Through the
Kindle Owners' Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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Nailed any lawyers to a tree this week?
http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html
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1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 2
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GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Addresses a number of performance issues in Animation Wizard to make
it quicker and to improve its color management, which will result in
more attractive finished animations in many cases.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if GIF Construction Set was the active application and it was
maximized, under some builds of Windows, if there was a unicorn or
other mythical quadruped in the immediate proximity... some of the
time.
This problem also prevented the Show Desktop button in the task bar
from operating correctly, as well as several additional task bar-
related functions.
It's history now.
- Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application.
- Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation
that hitherto required each previous release of GIF Construction Set
to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release
of GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set, 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
GIF Construction Set Professional 5 to handle validating it. Assuming
that you allowed GIF Construction Set to save your key to disk last
time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then
closing the "thank you" window.
- Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
version 5.
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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2. Announcing Presentation Wizard 5 (Second Notification)
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Presentation Wizard 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation
Wizard 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
Presentation Wizard that were impractical or genuinely impossible
under version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release:
- Adds Message objects - create configurable pop-up message windows
within your presentations. Click on the blue Click Me button on the
third page of the example presentation that installs with
Presentation Wizard to see one such window.
Message object windows can include multiple buttons that can jump to
different pages in your presentation, notify objects, open documents
and web pages... and perform various other tasks.
See the discussion of Message objects in the Reference section of the
Presentation Wizard manual for the complete tale.
- Rewrites the document runtime to make it quicker and smaller.
Admittedly, some of the size reduction was absorbed by the extra
functionality added to support the foregoing Message objects.
- Fixes a problem with the Paint function.
- Addresses a number of user-interface issues.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if Presentation Wizard was the active application and it was maximized,
under some builds of Windows, if there was a unicorn or other
mythical quadruped in the immediate proximity... some of the time.
This problem also prevented the Show Desktop button in the task bar
from operating correctly, as well as several additional task bar-
related functions.
It's history now.
- Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4
on or after July 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to
Presentation Wizard 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4
prior to July 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 5 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Presentation Wizard 5, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Presentation Wizard 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
Presentation Wizard Help -> Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous
Version menu item.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 3 (Additional Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds two new capture modes to the Graphic Workshop Camera screen
capture application.
Highlight Active Window will capture your entire screen as a
de-saturated image with the active window included as a normal
graphic.
Manual Selection will allow you to specify which portion of your
screen to capture by drawing a crop rectangle around it.
See the discussion of Screen Capture in the Graphic Workshop
Manual for more about this.
- Addresses several performance and user interface issues in Graphic
Workshop Camera.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if Graphic Workshop was the active application and it was maximized,
under some builds of Windows, if there was a unicorn or other
mythical quadruped in the immediate proximity... some of the time.
This problem also prevented the Show Desktop button in the task bar
from operating correctly, as well as several additional task bar-
related functions.
It's history now.
- Adds a Keep Both option to the Overwrite File prompt window. If you
enable this option when Graphic Workshop asks you to confirm
overwriting and existing file, your new file will be written with a
number appended to its name, to resolve the file collision.
The Keep Both option includes an Apply to Rest of Batch switch, to
apply it to multiple graphics without any further clicking.
See the discussion of the Prompt Before Overwrite option in the
Graphic Workshop Manual for more about this.
- The opening banner in e-Paint UltraLight has been fixed so it
appears the first time the application opens, and then never again.
Under some builds of Windows, it used to pop up every time e-Paint
UltraLight started... definitely not what it was intended to do.
- Fixes a minor inconsistency in View mode, which could leave the
setting of the Zoom button in the lower right corner of the View
window in a state of uncertainty after using the Filters window,
such that it had to be clicked on twice to zoom correctly.
Hands up everyone who knew that clicking on the area in the lower
right corner of the View window - between the scroll bars - toggles
the Zoom mode.
- Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
version 5.
- Updates the documentation.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
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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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4. Steven William Rimmer's Novels Now Available Through the
Kindle Owners' Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited
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For what may or may not be a limited time only, Steve's legendary cult
fiction is now available to users of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library,
for readers in the UK and the UK.
They're also available to users of Kindle Unlimited... pretty much for
free.
As we're given to understand how this works, Steve will get paid when
Kindle users read his book through these services even if the readers
themselves aren't required to part with any cash.
Please see this discussion of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library at:
http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/index.html#lending
for the whole tale.
We hasten to add that Steve's books are still available through the
traditional channels on Kindle, and most of them are still in print
on paper... paper being this funny white stuff with ink on it that they
used to make books out of back in the day.
The foregoing link will address these options as well.
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