From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 1 09:16:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:16:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141101150002.34C519408E7@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 2. e-Paint 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Strike back at the evil empire. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html (Light saber not included.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: ...was something of an experiment. Graphic Workshop has been extensively optimized to maximize its performance under Windows 7 and Windows 8. The result of all this refinement, stealth and treachery has been a measurable performance improvement across the entire application. It's quicker and has a smaller memory footprint. We've been impressed with how well this has worked - it's cool on any platform, but especially when it's running on older, slower systems. While Graphic Workshop still runs under Windows XP and Vista, should you be feeling retro, its current persona may suffer a slight performance hit if it's confronted by antique builds of Windows. Time marches on. In addition: - Graphic Workshop's View window now defaults to showing oversized pictures centered, rather than starting in their upper left corners. You can disable this by unselecting Center Oversize Images In View in the Setup window if you prove not to like it. - Updates the e-Paint UltraLight rendering engine and fixes a really nasty resource leak. - Fixes a number of cosmetic issues in GIF Construction Set UltraLight. - Fixes a number of cosmetic and performance issues in Montage Builder UltraLight. - Fixes a bug in GWS Camera which could cause it to grab the wrong screen area in some... admittedly unlikely... circumstances. - Updates Resource Extractor to allow it to deal with even more weird- beard resource types that turn up under Windows 8. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 2. e-Paint 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ e-Paint 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds saveable tools. Each of the e-Paint tools having at least one user-adjustable parameter in the tool palette window can now be saved to disk, and later restored. You can save as many configurations of each tool as you like. Refine e-Paint's brushes, drawing tools and selectors for specific tasks, and keep each one until you can hand them down to your descendents. See the discussion of Opening and Saving Tools in the section of the e-Paint manual that deals with the Tool Box. It's right beside the hippopotamus - you can't miss it. Click on the small blue button in the tool palette window to access this feature. - Updates the File menu thumbnails. They render somewhat quicker, and they now include a size threshold to prevent really huge pictures from provoking unreasonable delays the first time you open the File menu. See the discussion of the Maximum Preview Dimension item in the e-Paint Setup window to configure this value to your liking. - Adds an option to Setup to allow e-Paint's initial magnification level to default to something other than 100 percent. See the Default View Mode item in the Application panel. - Updates lots of things in the e-Paint drawing tool rendering engine. It's a bit quicker, somewhat more precise and generally a happier entity. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using e-Paint 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to e-Paint 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from collapsing space-time in upon itself and destroying the universe as we know it... which is likely something you'd rather not be blamed for. - Fixes a number of additional issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download e-Paint 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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