From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Oct 15 10:12:37 2016 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:12:37 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20161015101237.0030ecb8@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 7 Revision 2 (New This Week) 2. Announcing Animation Workshop 7 3. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 7 (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Click here if it seems like the world's politicians have been secretly replaced by sleeper agents of the former Soviet Union. (Really, really dumb ones...) http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 2 (New This Week) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been updated. This release: - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of Graphic Workshop Professional 7... as software is wont to do. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. - Updates UpToDate. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 to download and install this update... doubly so if you're running Windows 10. You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 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 7's menu bar. The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on November 30, 2016. 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 7. 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 7 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 6 and you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 6 to replace it with the new Graphic Workshop Professional 7, please be sure uninstall all your version 6 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 6. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Animation Workshop 7 _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 7 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop 7 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as assembling complex animations. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Animation Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6. - Improves the rendering engine to resolve a number of inconsistencies that affected ho concurrent or overlaid objects were visualized. - Addresses a number of issues with the Favorites window. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. - Improves the timing accuracy of the View window. - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Improves the general sneakiness of GIF Supercompressor. - Animation Workshop Professional 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - Updates UpToDate. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Animation Workshop 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation Workshop 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Animation Workshop 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Animation Workshop 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for Animation Workshop 6 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 Animation Workshop 7's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set 7 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 7 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as assembling complex animations. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to PNG MNG Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6. - Adds Titles and Credits. Equip your animations and digital video with professional movie titles and credits. Easy to use, quick to build and requiring no detectable knowledge of what a "key grip" actually does, the Titles and Credits window will turn your animations into movies with a few mouse clicks. You'll find it in the Chunk menu. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. We'll be grateful for any feedback users of PNG MNG Construction Set can offer us about this issue - we plan to roll it out to the other version seven software starting next week. - Improves the plugin interface, which will allow plugins to load in less time and operate faster. - Fixes a number of minor issues in the plugins themselves. - Applies numerous minor updates and fixes to Animation Wizard. - Improves the timing accuracy of the View window. - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Improves the general sneakiness of Supercompressor. - PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - Updates UpToDate. - 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 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 6 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 7's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 7. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 7 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 6 or PNG MNG Construction Set 6 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 6 or PNG MNG Construction Set 6 to replace them with the new version 7 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 6 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 6 and PNG MNG Construction Set 6. 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. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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