[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

Sat Feb 14 09:28:00 EST 2015



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     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


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     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


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     1. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 7 for Graphic Workshop 
        Professional 5
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     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.


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     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.


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     You can download the plugin at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW

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     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.


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     (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.) 


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     2. Font Wrangler Revision 3 (Second Notification)
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     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.


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     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.   


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     3. Steven William Rimmer's Novels on Kindle Unlimited in Canada
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     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.


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     4. Moving Windows to a New Computer (Second Notification)
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     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

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     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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     products, please contact us at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html

     You can contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and by snail-mail
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