From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 15 08:39:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:39:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20141115083900.01697df8@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 2. Calendar Wizard 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) 4. Surprised to Hear From Us? 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Have an evil weekend. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds Right-click Menu objects to Presentation Wizard documents. Create right-click menus that users of your documents can interact with. See page three of the example presentation that installs with Presentation Wizard for an example of the right-click menu object in action. You'll want to right click therein for the best results. - Speeds up the alpha rendering engine. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Presentation Wizard 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Presentation Wizard 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending Presentation Wizard... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when that happens. - Speeds up the File menu history. - Improves the animation timing. - Fixes several memory leaks in the document runtime. - Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application. - Updates the documentation. - 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 ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Calendar Wizard 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Calendar Wizard 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself what your calendars 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 Calendar 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. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Calendar Wizard 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Calendar Wizard 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. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of Calendar Wizard to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of Calendar 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 Calendar 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 Calendar Wizard 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed Calendar 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 or the application if a grey-scale PNG file were selected. - Improves a number of elements in the calendar rendering engine. - Fixes several minor bugs in a variety of user interface windows. - Fixes a number of additional issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html#download to download Calendar Wizard 5. ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 4 on or after July 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Calendar Wizard 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 4 prior to July 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Calendar Wizard 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Calendar Wizard 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Calendar 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 Calendar 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/calkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Surprised to Hear From Us? _______________________________________________________________________ If this is the first posting to the Alchemy Mindworks Update List you've seen of late, you're not alone. It has come to our attention that several large commercial e-mail providers have installed black hole spam blockers of late... that block way more than just spam. There's a complete discussion of this issue at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/ You're receiving this posting because we've sent it through a different IP address. This said, the fundamentally broken design behind many black hole spam traps means that they'll likely block this address as well, in time. If our mail to you is being blocked, chances are other messages you'd like to receive are too. It's hard to know when you're not receiving your e-mail. We urge all our readers to contact the providers of their e-mail solutions, determine whether their mail is being subject to one of these brute force spam traps and request to opt out. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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