[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. Announcing Font Wrangler 8
2. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 8 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 3
(Additional Notification)
4. Are You Running Graphic Workshop 6, GIF Construction Set 6,
PNG MNG Construction Set 6 or The Ultimate Screen Clock 6?
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Font Wrangler 8
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Font Wrangler 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Font Wrangler 8 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 Font Wrangler 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 large libraries of
fonts.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Font Wrangler 8 that were impractical or genuinely
impossible under version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- 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.
- Font Wrangler 8 will optionally import most of the configuration items
of an existing Font Wrangler 7 installation, if there's one on your
system, eliminating the need to restore your preferences by hand.
It will also remove your earlier software for you if you like.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Font Wrangler 8 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.
- 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 Font Wrangler 8. 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 Font Wrangler 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 7 on or
after April 1, 2017, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Font
Wrangler 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 7 prior
to April 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Font Wrangler 8 for half the cost
of a new single-user license.
When you first run Font Wrangler 8, it will check to see if you have a
registration for Font Wrangler 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 Screen Saver
Construction Set 8's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/fntkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 8 (Second Notification)
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Screen Saver Construction Set 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Screen Saver Construction
Set 8 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 Screen Saver
Construction Set 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 building extensive
screen savers.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Screen Saver Construction Set 8 that were impractical or genuinely
impossible under version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- 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.
- Updates the runtime to make it quicker and more memory efficient.
- Adds some new functionality to the ANIMAL language.
- Screen Saver Construction Set 8 will optionally import most of the
configuration items of an existing Screen Saver Construction Set 7
installation, if there's one on your system, eliminating the need to
restore your preferences by hand.
It will also remove your earlier software for you if you like.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Screen Saver
Construction Set 8 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.
- 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 8. 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 7 on or after April 1, 2017, you’re welcome to a free
upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 7 prior to April 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Screen
Saver Construction Set 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Screen Saver Construction Set 8, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 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 Screen Saver
Construction Set 8's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/scskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 3 (Additional Notification)
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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, 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 if an
upgrade option is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our
web page and 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.
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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4. Are You Running Graphic Workshop 6, GIF Construction Set 6, PNG MNG
Construction Set 6 or The Ultimate Screen Clock 6?
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The half-price upgrade path from version 6 Alchemy Mindworks software
will be closing in just over a week.
At present, you can still upgrade your version 6 applications to
their vastly cooler version 8 progeny for half price.
Among other things, you'll enjoy:
- Graphic Workshop's enhanced Filter window and Archive Manager.
- GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set's batch processor.
- The Ultimate Screen Clock's amazing animated Tubes and Flip styles.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade to version 8 and save some cash.
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