From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Mar 21 09:47:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:47:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150321094700.00320eb8@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 5 2. GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Text Effects Animation Plugins Updated (Second Notification) 3. If You're Reading This... (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Click on this link and make a book appear on your Kindle tablet. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/coven.html ...just like witchcraft. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Watermark feature. If you're creating web pages for a client, you can watermark your animations to discourage your designs from going for a walk before you get paid. See the Watermark Setup item in the File->Export menu. - Fixes a number of problems with the Texture engine, some of which could crash Animation Workshop. The others just created really nasty textures. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of Animation Workshop to update to this release. - Speeds up the animation rendering engine, and improves a number of its metrics for better final renders. - Improves a number of user-interface elements. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Animation Workshop 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Text Effects Animation Plugins Updated (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Text Effects plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional 5 and PNG MNG Construction 5 have been updated. These releases: - Fix a number of problems with the Texture engine, some of which could crash the application hosting your plugins. The others just created really nasty textures. - Enjoy more sophisticated memory management to occupy a smaller memory footprint, resulting in better performance... especially on systems with slower processors, limited resources or lots and lots of other stuff happening. - Improve the animation rendering engine for quicker builds. - Improve the color management when the plugins are creating GIF animations, for nicer looking results. - Improve the plugin interface, so GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set can do less thinking when they import the plugins, and as such, boot up in less time. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of the plugins to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. These releases of the plugins can be installed right over the previous ones - they will in fact automatically uninstall the previous plugins as part of the install. The updated plugins are: Text Effects #2: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx2.html Text Effects #3: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx3.html Text Effects #4: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx4.html Text Effects #5: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx5.html The plugin updates are available at no cost to previously-registered users of these products. They're $19.99 each if you've yet to experience them. Click on the above links to download their installers. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. If You're Reading This... _______________________________________________________________________ We've become aware of an increasing degree of paranoia among some commercial ISPs over the issue of putative spam on their networks. For the most part, we've become aware of it because we've heard back from users of Alchemy Mindworks software who have: - Discovered themselves unable to receive our weekly update postings some weekends. - Posed questions to our software support staff and heard little but crickets thereafter. - Bought our products and experienced difficulty receiving registration keys. We hasten to add that we respond promptly to all the e-mail we receive, and being mercenary capitalist swine, even more so to users sending us money. We've come to appreciate that some ISPs and "free" e-mail providers, in an effort to be perceived as protecting their users from spam, have erected brute-force mail filters that nuke lots of legitimate e-mail. Sometimes this includes ours. If you're reading this, having not seen one of our postings for several weeks, your mail provider is likely one of them. ........................................................................ In the event that you believe that you're not reliably receiving e-mail from Alchemy Mindworks, we suggest that you: - Check the spam folder of your mail account regularly. If you find some of our mail therein, mark it as not being spam. Some free mail systems actually honor such requests. Admittedly, a lot of the rest merely laugh at them. - See if your mail provider offers a "whitelist" feature, or an option to opt out of its anti-spam strategy. - Consider a second e-mail solution. As a rule, e-mail provided by ISPs isn't subject to quite the level of filtering as ostensibly free e-mail accounts. - Enable the Up To Date agent installed with all current Alchemy Mindworks software to keep you apprised of new releases of our software, for those times when your e-mail provider has lurched off the deep end. Up To Date can be accessed through the Start -> Programs (or All Programs) -> Alchemy Mindworks sub-menu on your system. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our users for their patience with this issue, and to reiterate our promise to reply to anything sent to us within one business day, and usually within a few minutes. If you don't hear back from us in this time frame - or if you don't receive the newsletter postings each weekend - your mail is being blocked. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 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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