[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Aug 30 09:10:00 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 2
2. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
3. 10 Impeccable Tweets about Graphic Workshop.
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 2
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Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself
what your presentations looked like before you open them. See the
discussion of File Menu Thumbnails Files in the Opening and Saving
Documents section of the Reference document of the Presentation
Wizard Manual for assistance with configuring this feature... or
disabling it, should you ultimately decide that it's a tool of
unclean spirits or liberal politicians.
- Improves a number of aspects of the aforementioned File menu history
feature.
- Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by
Presentation Wizard will appear in Explorer with less delay.
- 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.
- Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application.
- Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation
that hitherto required each previous release of Presentation Wizard
to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release
of Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard, 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
Presentation Wizard 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you
allowed Presentation Wizard 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 bug in the PNG import library that could crash the File
Open window if a grey-scale PNG file were selected.
- Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
version 5.
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 June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation
Workshop 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4
prior to June 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 Help >
Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Presentation
Wizard 5's menu bar.
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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2. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
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Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself
what your files looked like before you open them. See the discussion
of File Menu Thumbnails Files in the Creating Documents section of
the Reference document of the Animation Workshop Manual for
assistance with configuring this feature... or disabling it, should
you ultimately decide that it's a tool of unclean spirits or liberal
politicians.
- Improves a number of aspects of the aforementioned File menu history
feature.
- Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by Animation
Workshop will appear in Explorer with less delay.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if Animation 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.
- Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application.
- Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation
that hitherto required each previous release of Animation Workshop
to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release
of Animation Workshop 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 Animation 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
Animation Workshop 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you
allowed Animation Workshop 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 bug in the PNG import library that could crash the File Open
window if a grey-scale PNG file were selected.
- Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
version 5.
You can download Animation Workshop 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4 on
or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation
Workshop 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4
prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Animation Workshop 5 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Animation Workshop 5, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Animation Workshop 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 Animation
Workshop 5's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. 10 Impeccable Tweets about Graphic Workshop.
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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:
- Crop lots of photos in one operation with the Apply to Batch option
of Crop.
- Secure delete - make sure those embarrassing photos NEVER come back.
- Enjoy different Windows wallpaper every day with Rotator.
- Capture all or part of your screen, with or without the cursor, using
GWS Camera.
- Include EXIF details with your printed photos, such as exposure,
location & time.
- Transform any photo into a Windows screen saver.
- Create state-of-the-art Roman mosaics with Canvas filter.
- Browse, convert and extract graphics stored in ZIP files.
- Give your photos an edge with the Raise filter.
- Create instant web pages of your photos with clickable thumbnails;
use Web Gallery.
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
See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter.
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