[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Aug 29 10:04:54 EDT 2015
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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
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1. Announcing Font Wrangler 6
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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
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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
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2. Pagan Daybook 6 Revision 2 (New This Weekend)
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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.
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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
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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
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
- 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
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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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4. US Dollar Pricing Coming - Shop Now, Save 25% - Banks Take Time...
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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.
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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.
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