[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 3 (New This Weekend)
2. Announcing Calendar Wizard 8 (second Notification)
3. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 3 (New This Weekend)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 8 has been updated.
This release:
- Addresses a few more issues that crept into the initial release of
Graphic Workshop Professional 8.
- Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application
with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key
on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's
a complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the
primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that
deals with Color Selection.
- Addresses an issue which prevented the Abort button in the Progress
window from being recognized when Graphic Workshop was processing
large numbers of high-resolution JPG files under some builds and
configurations of Windows (if there was a penguin within 1500 meters
of your house, possibly.)
- Fixes a bug in e-Paint UltraLight that caused the floating tool and
settings palette windows to become unselected during drawing in
some circumstances - see the above reference to the proximity of
a penguin.
- Improves the JPG reader.
- Updates several functions in the GWS Camera screen capture application.
- Updates Archive Manager.
- Addresses a potential security issue.
We urge all users of Graphic Workshop Professional 8 to install this
upgrade, and any users of earlier versions to consider upgrading as
quickly as possible.
You can download Graphic Workshop Professional 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 on or after March 1, 2017, youre welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 prior to March 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 8, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 7 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 8's menu bar.
The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on
November 30, 2017.
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
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2. Announcing Calendar Wizard 8 (second Notification)
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Calendar Wizard 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard
8 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 managing complex calendars.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Calendar Wizard that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- Adds double-sided printer support to allow double-sided bank-style
calendars to be printed without having to pause and turn the paper
over. There's a discussion about the finer nuances of double-sided
printing in the Print section of the Reference document for Calendar
Wizard's manual, but for the most part, if you have a double-sided
printer, Calendar Wizard will detect it and print accordingly.
- Adds a Preserve Pictures option to the Replicate window, allowing the
Replicate function to propagate style changes to an entire calendar
without nuking your existing graphics.
- Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application
with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key
on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's a
complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the
primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that
deals with Color Selection.
- Improves some metrics in the dodecahedral calendars. Should you not
have checked out this feature - it appeared mid-way through the
life of Calendar Wizard 7 - it will print a 12-sided desk calendar
that can be cut out and stuck together to form a three-dimensional
object.
- Calendar Wizard 8 will optionally import most of the configuration
items of an existing Calendar Wizard 7 installation, if there's one
on your system, eliminating the need to restore your preferences by
hand.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Calendar Wizard to
make it more resistant to tampering. Sadly, the tampering in question
appears to originate with some third-party security applications...
which our lawyers would really prefer we didn't name.
- Updates a number of user-interface issues throughout the application.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
We'd like to take this opportunity to express our sincere regrets for
the minor bump in the price of Calendar Wizard. In our defense, it's
been about a decade and a half since it last changed. Bookkeepers may
not be the most irresistible force in the universe, but they are the
most relentless.
You can download Calendar Wizard 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 7 on
or after April 1, 2017, youre welcome to a free upgrade to Calendar
Wizard 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 7
prior to April 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Calendar Wizard 8 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Calendar Wizard 8, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Calendar Wizard 7 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 of Calendar Wizard.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/calkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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