[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Jul 11 08:27:00 EDT 2015
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Contents:
1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 6
2. Font Wrangler Revision 4 (Second Notification)
3. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 6
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Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop
Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able
to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop
Professional 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call
for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 5.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 6 include:
- Graphic Workshop Professional 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10.
- Graphic Workshop Professional 6 features a comprehensive EXIF editor
to allow anyone with a digital camera - or a cell phone or a tablet -
to view, modify and expand upon the hidden metadata stored in JPEG
files.
- The ancillary EXIF functions in Graphic Workshop have been rewritten
to make them compliant with the current EXIF specification.
- The browser thumbnail interface has been rewritten to make it quicker
and more intuitive. The most obvious manifestation of this will be
the items in a browser visibly disabling when Graphic Workshop is
busy.
- The right-click-to-exit function in the View window has been refined
to prevent it from summoning the browser right-click menu under some
builds of Windows.
- Items can be removed from the History panes in the Destination,
Move Copy and Search windows. Hold down the Alt key and select the
item to be removed.
- A somewhat insidious resource leak in the browser user interface has
been addressed.
- The Black Threshold and White Threshold filters now include an
optional antialias mode for better image quality when you process
your subjects to look like ghosts and vampires.
- The middle-click zoom toggle in View mode has been updated to prevent
if from initiating multiple zoom changes in a single click under some
builds of Windows.
- A resource leak that turned up in the quick rename function and the
Favorites window has been addressed.
- The thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser windows is
considerably quicker.
- Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster.
- Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it
and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier,
especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of the version 6 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v6-upgrades/
You can Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 6, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 on your
system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of
the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help >
Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop
Professional 6's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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PLUGINS
All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been
upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 6.
If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
plugin.
All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 5 and
you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 5 to replace it with the new
Graphic Workshop Professional 6, please be sure uninstall all your
version 5 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 5.
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2. Font Wrangler Revision 4 (Second Notification)
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Font Wrangler 5 has been updated. This release:
- Fixes a problem that prevented the Save As windows in Font Wrangler
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.
- Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users
of Font Wrangler to update to this release.
- Addresses a number of issues with the File menu thumbnails.
- Updates the Change Font Name function to deal with several
additional weird-beard quasi-valid TrueType font files.
- Updates the documentation.
- 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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