From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Aug 29 10:04:54 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:04:54 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150829100454.05406640@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing Font Wrangler 6 2. Pagan Daybook 6 Revision 2 (New This Weekend) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) 4. US Dollar Pricing Coming - Shop Now, Save 25% - Banks Take Time... 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ From Russia, with weird physics. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing Font Wrangler 6 _______________________________________________________________________ Font Wrangler 6 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Font Wrangler 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 Font Wrangler 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's notably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as managing multiple fonts. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Font Wrangler that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. - Font Wrangler 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Adds a feature to export font grids to graphic files. - Improves the image export logic. - Addresses a number of issues in the typeface rename functionality. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - Updates the documentation. You can download Font Wrangler 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Font Wrangler 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Font Wrangler 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Font Wrangler 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for Font Wrangler 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 Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Font Wrangler 6's right-click menu. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/fntkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Pagan Daybook 6 Revision 2 (New This Weekend) _______________________________________________________________________ Pagan Daybook 6 has been updated This release addresses a number of issues that crept into the first version 6 release, last weekend, including: - Fixes a bug that caused the Theme window to crash Pagan Daybook under some builds of Windows if the theme list was scrolled slowly past the Lady of Shallot theme. We're not making this up - it was an issue with the JPEG library that only turned up for that one graphic. Computers do this sort of thing pretty much just because they can. - Fixes an installer issue that prevented the music files from being installed in some circumstances. ........................................................................ From the initial release last weekend: We've refined the internal architecture of Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's notably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as managing its graphics and animations. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Pagan Daybook that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. - Pagan Daybook 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Addresses an issue with the screen saver that saw all its elements completely scrambled under some versions of Windows. It may have also occurred when the phase of the moon coincided with an upsurge in the snowshoe hare population. Or not. It's fixed now. - Updates the observance database. - Improves the image import logic. - Improves the background image management logic to allow Pagan Daybook's application window to open with less of a delay. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - Updates the documentation. You can download Pagan Daybook 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Pagan Daybook 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Pagan Daybook 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for Pagan Daybook 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 Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Pagan Daybook 6's right-click menu. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ This release addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial version 6 release. We recommend that all users of Graphic Workshop Professional download and install it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 notably 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. ........................................................................ 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. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - 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 ........................................................................ 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 ........................................................................ 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. US Dollar Pricing Coming - Shop Now, Save 25% - Banks Take Time... _______________________________________________________________________ As of this weekend, we're still processing credit card and PayPal transactions in Canadian dollars. The switch to US-dollar pricing will probably happen on or about Tuesday, September 1. ........................................................................ For the weekend of August 29 and 30, 2015, the prices for Alchemy Mindworks' software and other products will still be charged in Canadian dollars... or as we like to think of them, in "mini-dollars." Some time next week, if our bank hasn't been fibbing to us, our pricing will change to US dollars. We invite readers of this posting who are curious about this or who find themselves to be in need of sleep to contact us for the details of why this is happening - see the contact link at the end of this message. At present, the US - Canadian exchange rate stands at about 1.25. If you've been thinking about buying some of our products, we urge you to do so this weekend. You'll save about 25 percent over the coming US dollar prices. As an example, Graphic Workshop Professional 6 at $44.99 (CDN) will wind up costing about $33.75 (US) when it's charged to a credit card drawn on a US bank. (Some banks may add transaction fees.) Please visit our e-commerce page at: https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html We hasten to add that Canadian dollar pricing and its attendant discount - while they're still available - will apply to new software licenses, software upgrades, books and everything else we do, paid for by credit cards, PayPal and any other form of transaction we can manage. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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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