From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Oct 3 08:29:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:29:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20151003082900.01d0efc0@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 2 2. PNG MNG Construction Set 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification) 3. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 4. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Additional Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ WARNING: This book may frighten pets and other small animals. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html (Actually, any book will do this if your aim's good enough.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 6 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Clickable Image option to the Button object. Create large clickable pictures that behave like clickable graphics at web pages. Clickable Image buttons can change pages, open documents, access web sites and do all sorts of other things, just like conventional buttons. See the discussion of Button objects in the Manual for more. - Adds controls to the Display Text editor to adjust the character spacing and line spacing for Display Text objects. Squeeze your text into tighter spaces when things get crowded. - Adds an option to the Header editor to enable a pointing cursor for clickable objects in a Presentation Wizard document, these being enabled buttons, check boxes and radio buttons. With the Pointing Cursor option enabled, your moue cursor will change to a pointing finger when it passes over a clickable object in a Presentation Wizard document. - Fixes several potential memory leaks in the Button object editor. - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data. - Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial version 6 release. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Presentation Wizard 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Presentation Wizard 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Presentation Wizard 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for Presentation 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 Help > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Presentation Wizard 6's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. PNG MNG Construction Set 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 6 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Caption function. Glue a text caption to the bottom of any animation, with your choice of fonts, colors and typography. This is especially useful for animations converted from digital video. - Fixes a bug in the Text Overlay function... which caused it to not actually overlay any text under some builds of Windows. This largely defeated its purpose. - Allows the Animation Wizard window to autosize itself to fill most of your monitor area by default when it's reset or opened for the first time. You can reset Animation Wizard by holding down the Shift key on your keyboard when you open it. - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data. - Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial version 6 release. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNG Construction Set 4 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade: ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your plugins. All the animation plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set. If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel's Programs and Features applet. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 6 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a bug in the Caption function that could crash GIF Construction Set under some builds of Windows. Ooops. From Revision 2: - Adds a Caption function. Glue a text caption to the bottom of any animation, with your choice of fonts, colors and typography. This is especially useful for animations converted from digital video. - Fixes a bug in the Text Overlay function... which caused it to not actually overlay any text under some builds of Windows. This largely defeated its purpose. - Allows the Animation Wizard window to autosize itself to fill most of your monitor area by default when it's reset or opened for the first time. You can reset Animation Wizard by holding down the Shift key on your keyboard when you open it. - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data. - Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial version 6 release. - 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 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to GIF Construction Set Professional 4 or GIF Construction Set Professional 5, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade: ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your plugins. All the animation plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set. If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel's Programs and Features applet. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 have previously registered or upgraded to Graphic Workshop Professional 4 or Graphic Workshop Professional 5, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade: ........................................................................ 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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