[Newsletter] RESENT: 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, you’re 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, you’re 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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