[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Apr 30 08:52:00 EDT 2016
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Contents:
1. Pagan Daybook 6 Revision 5
2. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 6 (Additional Notification)
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Pagan Daybook 6 Revision 5
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Pagan Daybook 6 has been updated. This release:
- Updates the compression library that reads the observance database
and PNG graphics. This addresses a potentially security issue.
If you're running Pagan Daybook, you really want to update to
this release pretty much immediately.
It also fixes a few memory leaks.
- Improves the observance database and nails a few typos.
- Improves the observance database logic so it opens a bit quicker.
- Speeds up the background rendering engine.
- Addresses a potential bug in the window sizing logic that could
have created some cosmetic issues at windows sizes greater than
100 percent, depending on how Windows was configured... and possibly
having to do with the number of days left 'til the next solstice.
- Improves the animation engine... an ongoing quest of epic
proportions.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download Pagan Daybook 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you have previously registered or upgraded to Pagan Daybook 5, you
can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 6 for half the cost of a new single-user
license.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
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2. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
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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
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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.
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 6 (Additional Notification)
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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
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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:
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