From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Apr 23 08:05:00 2016 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 08:05:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20160423080500.006be718@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 4 2. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 6 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 6 (Additional Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Long before there was software, there was alchemy... (Real, spooky, weird-beard alchemy.) http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 4 _______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT: Due to what appears to be an issue with the software installation logic under some builds of Windows, this update for Presentation Wizard may not correctly uninstall earlier versions. To preserve your sanity and wind up with the correct installation of this software, we strongly recommend that you uninstall your existing Presentation Wizard through the Windows Control Panel -> Programs and Features applet before you download and install this update. Presentation Wizard 6 has been updated. This release: - Updates the Photo Album Wizard to use optional gradient backgrounds. - Addresses a number of bugs in the Photo Album Wizard, including a problem that could see the titles truncated if large font sizes were selected. - Adds a Create Install Script item to the File menu, to generate professional Windows MSI installers for your presentations. Be sure to read the Help for this feature before you use it. - Addresses some alignment issues in the page editor. - Fixes a potential memory leak in the Movie object logic. - 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 have previously registered or upgraded to Presentation Wizard 5, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 6 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Screen Saver Construction Set is the ultimate platform to build distributable multimedia Windows screen savers. Fast, flexible and easy to use, it will let you assemble screen savers of your own design out of pictures, animations, text and sounds. The built-in Photo Album Wizard will assemble screen savers from your digital pictures with a few clicks. Its resolution-independent architecture means that your screen savers will look superb no matter what system they're installed on. Once you've created your screen savers, you'll be able to wrap them in professional Windows .MSI installers for distribution. The extensive documentation and tutorials included with Screen Saver Construction Set will typically get you up to speed in less than twelve seconds. Your performance may vary slightly, but it will still be impressively quick. Build screen savers of your family, your corporate logo, advertisements for your products, desktop themes or your most inventive fantasies. You can download Screen Saver Construction Set 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES As of this writing, if you have previously registered Screen Saver Construction Set 2, you can upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Note that Screen Saver Construction Set 6 will not open screen savers created by Screen Saver Construction Set 2. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 6 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been updated. This release: - Completely rewrites the Archive Manager features of Graphic Workshop. Based on the popular LibZip library, Archive Manager is now considerably faster. In the event that Archive Manager is one of the features of Graphic Workshop you haven't tried yet, right-click on a ZIP file from a Graphic Workshop browser window and select Archive Manager. You'll be able to apply most of what Graphic Workshop can do with individual graphics to the files in your ZIP, without having to extract them first. The new ZIP library closes a number of potential security holes, which could have allowed a malicious ZIP file to crash Graphic Workshop and run arbitrary malicious code in memory. If you're using Archive Manager, or any of the other functions of Graphic Workshop that get involved with ZIP archives, you really need to update right now. - Fixes a problem with Archive Manager that prevented it from creating folders when it extracted files from a ZIP archive with the Preserve Paths option enabled. - Improves the performance of the ZIP file extraction function... a lot. - Fixes a potential security issue in the CDR reader, some CDR files actually being ZIP archives. - Updates the compression library that reads and writes PNG graphics. This addresses a potentially security issue. If you're running Graphic Workshop, you really want to update to this release pretty much immediately. It also fixes a few memory leaks. - Updates the file drag 'n drop feature of Graphic Workshop's browser windows to properly handle files in sub-folders dropped into a browser. - Adds an option to place a Graphic Workshop shortcut item on the Windows task bar when Graphic Workshop is used to view images from another application, such as Windows Explorer. This feature can be disabled in Setup. - Fixes a bug in the file override logic which confused the Paint function in Graphic Workshop's right-click menus if it was applied to variable-quality files... most notably JPEGs. The result was often very, very low-quality images after Paint was done. Oooops. - Fixes a bug in the animation viewer that could crash Graphic Workshop under some circumstances. - Fixes a bug in the FLI decoder. - Allows the default name for new folders created from within a Graphic Workshop browser window to be set by editing GwsPro60.ini. - Addresses a number of user interface issues in e-Paint UltraLight. - Updates the PNG read and write functionality used by Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications, such as GWS Camera, e-Paint UltraLight and Rotator. - Addresses a number of issues in the File History window introduced in the previous update. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. 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 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: _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 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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