From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Apr 22 10:58:38 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:58:38 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170422105838.04febdc8@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 5 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 5 (Second Notification) 3. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html (Once we charge the camcorder batteries and find enough sock puppets.) Now equally scary in paperback. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 7 has been updated. This release: - Adds an oft-requested option to the View window to allow it to play animations backwards. Hold down the Ctrl key when you open the View window, or click on Pause and then click on Play with the Ctrl held down when the View window is open. Be warned - playing animations that have been previously supercompressed can look extremely weird. We hasten to add that if you use this feature and you discover an animation that you prefer playing in reverse, the Reverse item of the GIF Construction Set Block menu will create a copy that plays that way all by itself. - Updates the Preview window in Animation Wizard. It now provides a larger viewing area, and it can toggle between the actual size of the graphic being previewed and the size adjusted to fit in the window - left click in Preview to change views. Note that you can specify the default preview mode in Setup. - Updates the color management functionality in Animation Wizard and the Combine window to produce more faithful animations. - Addresses a number of issues in the Print function, including some page metrics and a problem with the Print window that previously prevented it from successfully finding the default printer under some builds of Windows. - Fixes several inconsistences - which is, yes, a euphemism for 'bugs' - in the Titles and Credits window. - Improves the object management in the Favorites window to allow it to manage large favorites lists much faster. - Addresses a number of issues in the Transitions window. - Addresses a potential security issue. - 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. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to GIF Construction Set Professional 6, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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. 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