[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, youre 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, youre 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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