From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Dec 13 08:43:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 08:43:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141213144757.E2919940038@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 4 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (New this Weekend) 3. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification) 4. 10 Unsurpassed Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Holiday magic doesn't always involve maxing out your credit cards. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 4 _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions. - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup. - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now displays an additional window after you complete the validation of this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal. - Adds an Export Image feature to the right-click document menu. Right- click on any Image block and you can save it to a graphic file. Should the graphic file you select be the PNG format, it will even preserve the original Image chunk's transparency, if it's a 32-bit animation. See the discussion of Cutting, Copying and Pasting Blocks in the Reference document for more about this. - Updates a number of minor features of the Animation Wizard. - Makes the Supercompressor slightly more aggressive in its eternal quest to make animations smaller... some of them, in any case. - Fixes a number of minor cosmetic issues in various user interface windows. - Improves the document window memory management, which will make the whole application run somewhat faster, especially on systems with limited resources. - Updates the documentation. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (New this Weekend) _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a cosmetic bug in the View window progress bar. This is not a particularly serious issue - it may make the progress bar extend past the edge of its window in some cases. Still, it was a bug and it deserved to die. Last week's release: - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions. - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup. - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now displays an additional window after you complete the validation of this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal. - Adds an Export Image feature to the right-click document menu. Right- click on any Image block and you can save it to a graphic file. Should the graphic file you select be the GIF format, it will even preserve the original Image block's transparency, if it's present. See the discussion of Cutting, Copying and Pasting Blocks in the Reference document for more about this. - Updates a number of minor features of the Animation Wizard. - Makes the Supercompressor slightly more aggressive in its eternal quest to make animations smaller... some of them, in any case. - Fixes a number of minor cosmetic issues in various user interface windows. - Improves the document window memory management, which will make the whole application run somewhat faster, especially on systems with limited resources. - Updates the documentation. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. - This release addresses a theoretical bug that crept into the revision 3 update, and could crash Animation Workshop if the View mode was used. We know if no instances of it actually crashing the application, but it's a bug... it deserved to die. Previous week's release: - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions. - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup. - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now displays an additional window after you complete the validation of this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal. - Refines the metrics of the Shape object generator to address a number of unanticipated conditions that could cause some o9f the shapes to render... well, a little oddly at times. - Speeds up the animation rendering engine. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Animation Workshop 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Animation Workshop 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending Animation Workshop... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when that happens. - Fixes a bug that hitherto caused the entry in the Insert menu for Shape objects to be disabled in some circumstances, when it shouldn't have been. - Fixes a bug in the Extract function that could cause it to create somewhat peculiar still images files if Windows found itself squeezed for resources. - Speeds up the File menu history. - Updates the documentation. - 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 ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Unsurpassed Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 Professional 5'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: - Build instant distributable photo montages with Montage UltraLight. - Manage duplicated files with the Keep Both option of the Overwrite Files prompt. - Instant sidewalk chalk art with the Add Noise filter. - Right-click and select Paint to edit any still image, in any supported format. - Turn any image into a seamless background with the Seamless filter. - Browse, convert and extract graphics stored in ZIP files. - Transmute anything into light and color with the Neon filter. - Browse images on CD-ROMs with thumbnails using the Virtual Thumbnail mode. - Connect multiple photos with the Stitch filter. - Create theft-resistant comps of your photos for distribution. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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