From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Feb 14 09:28:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 09:28:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150214152027.3449F940AD4@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 7 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 2. Font Wrangler Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. Steven William Rimmer's Novels on Kindle Unlimited in Canada 4. Moving Windows to a New Computer (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Neither Alchemy Mindworks nor its suppliers, stockholders, staff or management accepts responsibility for any loss, damage or expense in the event that this book proves to be so hot as to melt your Kindle tablet into a smoking puddle of molten e-waste. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 7 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 _______________________________________________________________________ The RAW plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional has been updated to support a number of new cameras, and to improve its image processing speed. The RAW Digital Camera Plugin currently supports 574 digital cameras. We recommend that users of the RAW plugin download and install the current release. ....................................................................... View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary Canon, Casio, Hasselblad, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Fuji and Sony high-end digital cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG configuration for most cameras is breathtaking. This plugin costs $34.99. If you own a supported digital camera - or if you're just thinking about buying one - you and your immediate descendants will thank you for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a complete list of the cameras the plugin supports. ....................................................................... You can download the plugin at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW ....................................................................... IMPORTANT: You must be running Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to install this plugin. If you're running Graphic Workshop 4, you can still upgrade to the current Graphic Workshop Professional 5 software for half price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Registration keys bought for earlier versions of the RAW Digital Camera plugin are still valid for the version 5 release of the plugin. ....................................................................... (Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries or holdings.) _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Font Wrangler Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Font Wrangler 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds visual thumbnails to the History section of the File menu to allow you to quickly access recent folders and fonts. We hasten to add that this feature can be configured or dispensed with entirely in the Setup window. - Adds a Save As button to the Font Sample window, allowing the sample text to be exported to a graphic file. - Fixes a bug in the Change Font Name function that prevented it from opening TrueType and OpenType fonts with poorly-formed OS/2 tables. Please trust us when we assure you that you don't want to know what that actually means, 'cept it's working properly now. - Updates the Change Font Name function to deal with several other weird-beard quasi-valid TrueType font files. - Speeds up the font display windows. - Updates the documentation. - 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. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download to download Font Wrangler 5. ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using Font Wrangler 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to Font Wrangler 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Steven William Rimmer's Novels on Kindle Unlimited in Canada _______________________________________________________________________ Kindle Unlimited users in Canada can now access Steve's legendary cult fiction through Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited allows users to read e-books at no cost. Steve gets paid directly by Amazon when this happens. We too were shocked when this actually proved to work as advertised. There's more about Steven William Rimmer's fiction at: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com For more about Kindle Unlimited, please visit: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/index.html#lending and click on the link at the end of the section. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Moving Windows to a New Computer (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Having recently updated some of the hardware at the offices of Alchemy Mindworks and having proven unwilling to undertake the unspeakable nihilistic horror of reinstalling Windows and all ten thousand applications, personal settings, oyster soup recipes, links, device drivers and passwords... and such... we devised a procedure for moving an existing Windows hard drive to a new computer without having to reinstall much of anything. We too were shocked when this worked, but it did. It reduced three or four days of software installation and configuration to about as many hours, which included several unscheduled pizza breaks. Should you find yourself in a comparable situation - with or without the availability of pizza - you can save your soul and impress your cat using the same procedure: http://goo.gl/DwyKUp Because this post appears at the Alchemy Mindworks blog and has a URL long enough to be seen from low Earth orbit, the foregoing is a shortened URL that won't get mangled by being e-mailed. If you'd like to hang onto the link to this post, we recommend that you bookmark it when you get there, rather than copying the foregoing short link. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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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