From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Apr 15 10:16:29 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:16:29 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170415101629.02a4ee98@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 5 2. Voice Manager 7 Revision 2 (Second Notification) 3. Surprised to Hear From Us? 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Start your spring with a bang! (...and several stabs, a poisoning, an unexpected spear, some mayhem with a crossbow and numerous bloodstains that will be tricky to get out.) http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been updated. This release: - Deals with several issues in the Prompt Before Overwrite window, which could display incorrect thumbnails and related information for some batch functions, under some builds of Windows. - Updates a number of functions in Archive Manager. - Improves the logic to allow Graphic Workshop's various printing functions - and those of its ancillary applications - to correctly locate your default printer under all versions of Windows. You'd have thought this would be simple... note the use of the word "Windows" in the previous sentence. - Fixes a bug in Montage UltraLight that could crash it if an item was selected from the recent documents list in its File menu. - Adds an option have Graphic Workshop prompt you to open ZIP archives in the stand-alone Archive Manager application if you double-click on one and it proves to contain no pictures. - Improves the handling of the Format override windows in the Destination selector. - Improves the browser window thumbnail logic. - Adds an option to the Archive Manager Setup window to define the font size for the items in the main application window's list of archive items, for those of us with tired eyes. - Addresses a potential issue with the recent file thumbnail list in the GWS Camera screen capture application. - Speeds up and improves the color quantization logic in GIF Construction Set UltraLight, for better-looking animations with less of a wait. - Fixes a bug in the Help function of Archive Manager's Setup window. - Fixes several bugs in the Graphic Workshop Print from View function. - Addresses a potential security issue. - Addresses a number of user interface issues. - Updates the validation logic to deal with several additional... if happily obscure... Windows 10 issues. - 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 As of this writing, if you're running Graphic Workshop 5 or 6, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Voice Manager 7 Revision 2 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Yamaha reface DX synthesizer is amazingly cool... among other things because its voices can be reprogrammed to make it sound like pretty much anything you can imagine. In the event that you're not feeling very imaginative, there's also a voice-sharing community from which to download buckets of fresh sounds for it. Alchemy Mindworks' Voice Manager will keep track of banks of synthesizer voices, allowing them to be saved as permanent disk files. It also embodies an intuitive voice editor, and numerous other tools to make this instrument totally rock. If you play keyboards, we invite you to check out Voice Manager. ........................................................................ This release: - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of Voice Manager 7... as software is wont to do. - Updates a number of user interface elements. - Improves the communication speed between Voice Manager and a reface DX. - Fixes a problem by which Voice Manager's voice library files could remain unassociated with the Voice Manager application under some builds of Windows. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download The Voice Manager 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/voxman.html (Reface DX is a trademark of Yamaha Corporation. Alchemy Mindworks has no business affiliation with Yamaha Corporation. The names reface DX and Yamaha are used herein for descriptive purposes only.) _______________________________________________________________________ 2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 has been updated. This release: - Adds a new style - the Shadow digital style is all about what isn't there. It's available in two sizes and two colors. - Adds a sub-sort feature to the right-click menu in the Select Style window, to optionally group all the analog and digital styles together, and help you find that perfect clock. Right-click and select Sort from the menu that appears. - Fixes a bug that could cause the Net Time window to crash after it set the time on startup, under some builds of Windows. - Improves the dual-monitor support, so the clock window reliably stays where you left it on your second screen. - Improves the World Time window's map accuracy. - Improves the clock rendering engine, 'coz that's just something that never really ends. - Updates the validation logic. - Addresses a number of user interface issues. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to The Ultimate Screen Clock 6, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Surprised to Hear From Us? _______________________________________________________________________ If this is the first posting to the Alchemy Mindworks Update List you've seen of late, you're not alone. It has come to our attention that several large commercial e-mail providers have installed "black hole" spam blockers... that block way more than just spam. There's a complete discussion of this issue at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/ If our mail to you is being blocked, chances are other messages you'd like to receive are too. It's hard to know when you're not receiving your e-mail. We urge all our readers to contact the providers of their e-mail solutions, determine whether their mail is being subject to one of these brute force spam traps and request to opt out. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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