From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Apr 25 08:31:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:31:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150425083100.01ccf138@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 6 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 7 (Additional Notification) 4. Graphic Workshop Ancillary Applications (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Turn your unwanted politicians into toads. Quick, easy, foolproof. Click here for more information. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 6 _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 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 item in the Chunk menu. - Addresses a number of issues in the Text Overlay feature. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set to update to this release. - Improves the image management logic of Animation Wizard to enhance its performance. - Addresses some memory management issues in the Overlay and Underlay logic to make these features quicker on slow or unusually busy systems. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 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 item in the Block menu. - Addresses a number of issues in the Text Overlay feature. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of GIF Construction Set to update to this release. - Improves the image management logic of Animation Wizard to enhance its performance. - Addresses some memory management issues in the Overlay and Underlay logic to make these features quicker on slow or unusually busy systems. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set Professional 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 7 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a recent folder pane to the Move and Copy window, so you can quickly return to your frequently used destinations without having to manually navigate to them. We hasten to add that you can change the number of recent folders in Setup, or disable this feature entirely if you decide that you'd rather keep your mouse guessing. See the discussion of the Move and Copy function in the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about this option. - Adds a recent folder pane to the Destination window, which does pretty much the same stuff as the one in the Move and Copy window, above. It's discussed in the section of the Reference document that deals with Destination. - Adds an Explorer-like quick rename function to Graphic Workshop's browser windows. In addition to the renaming tools in the tool bar and the right-click menu, you can click and hold on the text area of a browser item to open an edit field and type in a new file name. - Improves the Position Only filter, with more options and nicer graphics. - Adds a Prepress filter, to surround your pictures with the arcane regalia of commercial printing. For the most part, it's useful if you feel your pictures would benefit from an industrial post-modern vibe. - Creates Windows desktop shortcuts for some of Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications, such as e-Paint UltraLight, Camera screen capture and Montage. - Fixes a cosmetic bug in the Search mode's file destination window. - Fixes a cosmetic bug in the File Open function of Montage. - Fixes a bug in the Matt and Frame function that could cause some frames to be incompletely filled with fractal textures. - Fixes a truly epic bug in e-Paint UltraLight that mangled most of its drawing tools under some builds of Windows. That was embarrassing. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release. - 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. ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic 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 Graphic Workshop 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $22.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Graphic Workshop Ancillary Applications (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop installs with a number of ancillary applications to enhance its functionality ? and it has done so for well over a quarter of a century. We have of late come to appreciate that a significant number of the users of Graphic Workshop have remained unaware that these extra applications existed, and were waiting patiently to be clicked on. To this end, the most recent release of Graphic Workshop Professional added desktop shortcuts for the extra programs. We've heard back from a few users who were confused by the appearance of these additional icons. Some of them suspected that we'd been lured to the dark side, and had coerced Graphic Workshop into installing unwanted software without permission. We'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for any confusion these additional shortcuts have caused. Graphic Workshop hasn't installed anything it hasn't been providing all along ? it?s just made these extra programs easier to access. The additional applications installed with Graphic Workshop are: - GWS Camera Screen Capture: Capture all or part of a Windows screen to image files. - GWS e-Paint UltraLight: Refine your photographs or create original art with this simplified edition of Alchemy Mindworks' e-Paint digital darkroom and drawing application. - GWS GIF Animator: A simplified version of Alchemy Mindworks' popular GIF Construction Set Professional. - GWS Montage Builder UltraLight: Combine your digital photographs and other graphics into picture montages that can be printed and exported to single-image graphics, such as JPG and PNG files. - GWS Resource Extractor Easily locate and extract icons, bitmaps, sounds and other resources from Windows executables and DLL libraries. - GWS Rotator: Have your Windows wallpaper or your screen savers automatically changed each morning. Needless to say, if you've registered Graphic Workshop, you'll also have complete access to these ancillary programs. There's more about them in the Reference document of Graphic Workshop Professional's manual. In the event that you don't want to have shortcuts on your desktop for these extra applications, you can click on each one you'd like to see gone and hit Del on your keyboard. You'll be prompted to confirm removing the shortcut in question. The actual software will still be available through the Windows Start -> Programs (or All Programs) -> Alchemy Mindworks -> Graphic Workshop Professional 5 menu. We're looking at making the additional shortcuts an install option for the next update. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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