[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Sep 13 09:38:00 EDT 2014




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     Contents:

     1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 4

     2. Graphic Workshop 4 Resource Leak

     3. e-Paint 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)

     4. New Reviews at Storm Gods (Second Notification)

     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 4
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds middle-click functionality. The middle mouse button is now 
       configurable to perform one of several functions in the View window. 
       The most useful of these is toggling the Zoom function - middle-click 
       to select between the default zoom level for a picture and 
       zoom-to-fill. See the Configure item in the Picture menu of the Zoom 
       window to change the behavior of the middle button.


     - Fixes a bug in the PNG reader that prevented it from reading some 
       16-bit PNG graphics correctly.


     - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash several of 
       Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications if they encountered a
       malformed PNG file.


     - Adds the capability of creating new folders, renaming folders and 
       deleting folders from within the Destination and the Move and Copy
       windows. Right-click in the folder tree to access it.


     - Adds the capability of creating new folders, renaming folders and 
       deleting folders from within the GWS Camera screen capture 
       application. Right-click in the folder tree to access it.


     - Addresses a number of issues in the Textures and Fractals window, 
       and removes a spurious texture mode that didn't actually do anything.


     - Fixes a very subtle and potentially nasty resource leak in the 
       various folder trees that appear in Graphic Workshop's browser 
       windows and dialogs. 


     - Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by Graphic 
       Workshop will appear in Explorer with less delay.


     - Improves the performance of the Graphic Workshop tool bar, so it 
       appears sooner... and all at once... when the application starts up.


     - Fixes a bug in the Line tool of the e-Paint UltraLight application 
       included with Graphic Workshop that caused it to position incorrectly
       when the snap-to grid was active, under some builds of Windows.


     - Fixes a bug that prevented the folder history list from appearing in
       the File menu under some circumstances.


     - Adds an option to the White Balance filter to allow it to use the
       selectable paper color as its white reference.


     - 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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     2. Graphic Workshop 4 Resource Leak
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     It has come to our attention that the recently-discovered resource leak
     in Graphic Workshop Professional 5 also affects earlier releases of 
     Graphic Workshop. 

     We suspect that it may have been caused by a recent Windows update, as
     it hasn't been detected previously.

     Users of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can resolve this issue by 
     installing the revision announced in the foregoing item of this posting.

     If you're still using Graphic Workshop 4... or the seriously ancient
     Graphic Workshop 3... we'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to
     consider upgrading to Graphic Workshop Professional 5.

     Left to its own devices, this resource leak could cause Graphic Workshop
     to crash unexpectedly, possibly destabilizing Windows.

     Please see: 

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

     to upgrade.




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     3. e-Paint 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
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     e-Paint 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself 
       what your pictures 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 e-Paint 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.


     - Adds user-selectable line caps to the Line tool - draw lines with
       arrow heads, diamonds and other slick terminations.


     - Fixes a bug in the Line tool that caused it to position incorrectly
       when the snap-to grid was active, under some builds of Windows.


     - Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by 
       e-Paint will appear in Explorer with less delay.


     - Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
       if e-Paint 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 e-Paint to be 
       uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of 
       e-Paint 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 e-Paint, 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
       e-Paint 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed e-Paint 
       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 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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     4. New Reviews at Storm Gods (Second Notification)
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     The Storm Gods product review blog has been updated with new reviews.

     Storm Gods - product reviews by the staff of Alchemy Mindworks - 
     features objective reviews of the things we've bought. 

     It might betray a significant collective character flaw, but we buy a 
     lot of stuff. For the most part, we research our purchases carefully. 
     Storm Gods will share our choices and our experiences with them. 

     Please visit

         http://www.stormgods.com

     to check out Storm Gods. Click on Recent Posts for the latest reviews.

     Unlike product review pages with larger staff and actual production 
     budgets, Storm Gods is based exclusively on items we would have bought 
     anyway. No compensation was provided to us by their manufacturers - not 
     that we'd necessarily have objected if they'd tried - and as such, all 
     the reviews at Storm Gods are wholly objective. 

     Alchemy Mindworks has no affiliation with any of the manufacturers 
     mentioned at Storm Gods - in most cases, we never even filled in the 
     warrantee cards.



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