From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat May 30 08:31:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 08:31:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150530083100.00a30cc0@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 8 2. Pagan Daybook 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 8 (Additional Notification) 4. e-Commerce Outage (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Enjoy huge lizards eating a lawyer or mow the lawn... you choose. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 8 _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in GIF Construction Set from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to do so. - Improves the timing of the View window. - Improves the Banners function. - Improves the color management of the Text Overlay function. - Updates a number of minor metrics issues in the Status Panel generator. - Improves the Watermark function. - 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Pagan Daybook 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Pagan Daybook 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds full-window graphics to the theme background options, and several new themes that use them. These are highly cool. To try the new themes, right-click in the Pagan Daybook window, select Theme from the menu that appears and choose any of the following themes from the Theme window list: - Clouds at Morning - Earth and Sky - Hylas and the Nymphs - Lady of Shallot - Morning Forest Needless to say, you can also create your own themes with this feature. See the discussion of Graphic backgrounds in the section of the Reference document of the Manual that deals with Material Buttons. - Updates the Theme window and fixes a memory leak... ooops. - Adds a random mode selection option for the screen saver. - Updates the observance database. - Fixes a problem which prevented the File Open and Save As windows in Pagan Daybook from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Improves the performance of the Calendar window. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of Pagan Daybook 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/pagan.html#download to download Pagan Daybook 5 ........................................................................ If you're still using Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 8 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Updates the logic underlying the recent folder panes that appeared in the Destination and Move and Copy windows in the previous release, to make them considerably quicker. - Adds a recent folder pane to the Search 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 Search function in the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about this option. - Improves a number of aspects of the Search window and its user- interface elements. - Fixes a problem which prevented the Open and Save As windows in Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Nails what we're pretty sure are the last of the weird-beard graphic types that can turn up in Resource Extractor. It handles them all correctly now. - Correctly supports a peculiar circa-1992 format variation of BMP files. Not that there are a lot of them still around, but Graphic Workshop will open the beasts if you bump into one. - Adds a new screen to the installer to make the creation of desktop shortcuts for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications optional. We were surprised to find that the previous release, which for the first time created shortcuts for all the applications in the Graphic Workshop suite, made a number of users of this software suspect it was installing stuff it wasn't supposed to. In fact, it was installing what it had always installed - it was just making all the software easier to find. We hasten to add that the desktop shortcuts screen of the Graphic Workshop installer will remember which shortcuts you select. The next time you install an update to Graphic Workshop, you'll be able to skip past it. - Improves the plugin interface logic. This should reduce the time Graphic Workshop requires to boot up by several seconds if you have a full bucket of its plugins installed. - 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. e-Commerce Outage (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Several weeks ago...the exact date in question being something of a mystery... the security company that issues the SSL certificates that lock down Alchemy Mindworks' secure e-commerce page appears to have encountered a disturbance in the force. The security "chain" of our certificate became broken, with the result that many visitors to our e-commerce page were greeted not by an offer of free shipping and a photograph of a smiling staff member wearing a telephone headset, but rather by an ominous warning about our page being untrusted. Regrettably, this issue only beset some web browsers and configurations thereof. It didn't affect the ones we use in house to check our pages, and as such it was well over a week before we became aware of it. The problem has now been fixed, and our e-commerce page is once again at peace with the universe... and it's not about to suggest otherwise. We hasten to add that it was never genuinely untrusted or insecure... it was just slightly confused. In the event that you attempted to access our e-commerce page during its brush with cybernetic oblivion, please accept our apology for the problem. To order any of our products on line, please visit: https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html No frightening messages will ensue. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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