From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Sep 12 08:51:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 08:51:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150912085100.051ed888@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 2. Announcing Calendar Wizard 6 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Murder! Intrigue! Treachery! ...and well over 100,000 other words, all spelled correctly. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been updated - the improved architecture has allowed us to implement some enhancements and new functionality that have hitherto been pretty much impossible. This release: - Expands the Archive Manager. Right-click on a ZIP or RAR archive and you'll be able to access its contents. Aside from just extracting files from an archive, the Archive Manager can now apply all of Graphic Workshop's batch processes - such as file conversion and resizing - to some or all of the graphics therein. You can manage the pictures in a ZIP file without having to unZIP them to a folder on your hard drive. - Addresses an issue in the View window that could cause the keyboard focus to get lost after using the Filters function, under some builds of Windows. When this happened, any keyboard shortcuts from the View window's menus disappeared into an alternate reality until a mouse click got the attention of the window again. - Allows the View and Crop windows to hide the Windows task bar if you have the auto-hide option enabled in the task bar's Properties. You might want to read that one again if it sounded like two Martians discussing what to order for lunch. If the View window was maximized and Windows' task bar was set to automatically hide itself - and then appear when your mouse cursor approached the bottom of the screen - the task bar could appear and interfere with the horizontal slider and the zoom toggle at the bottom of the View window. The View window will now prevent the task bar from appearing in these circumstances. We hasten to add that the interest of the View window in the task bar only manifests itself if the task bar auto-hide option is on, and that this feature can be disabled through Graphic Workshop's Setup window. Finally, note that you can still summon the task by from the View window with Ctrl-Esc. - Adds a Paste to Crop item to Graphic Workshop's Edit menu. Paste any compatible graphic on the Windows clipboard directly to Graphic Workshop's Crop window. - Fixes a inconsistency in the Search window's progress monitor. - Fixes the slider in Slide Show window called from Search, which previously did pretty much nothing under some builds of Windows. - Adds a folder history list to the Archive extract window. - Fixes the View and Slide Show taskbar buttons in the Search and Favorites windows, that could prove to be largely non-functional under some builds of Windows. - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library for Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications - e-Paint UltraLght, Montage, Camera and so on - that could crash the application in question when the JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data. - Fixes a resource leak in the browser refresh logic. You can download 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Calendar Wizard 6 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Calendar Wizard 6 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard 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 large graphics. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Calendar Wizard that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. - Calendar Wizard 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Fixes an issue with the JPEG import library that could cause it to crash Calendar Wizard on some source images. - Improves the metrics of the calendar layout engine. - 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 Calendar Wizard 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Calendar Wizard 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Calendar Wizard 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Calendar Wizard 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard 6's right-click menu. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/calkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 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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