[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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          Contents:


     1. ***Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 9 **
        *
     2. * Graphic Workshop Professional 9 *Rev. 2**(additional notification)
     3. * Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 9*****(second
        notification)
     4. ***Graphic Workshop Plugin Updates***
     5. **Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details



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        Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 9


    PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been released. We've further refined
    its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better
    utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten to add
    that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows,
    all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

    Among the new features and enhancements to PNG MNG Construction Set
    9, you'll find that it:

      * Exports MNG animations as *in-line graphics*. This allows
        animations to be embedded directly in the HTML files of web
        pages, rather than referenced as discrete GIF files. Pages so
        constructed load faster, and are pretty much impervious to
        finding that their animations have become lost or damaged.

      * Updates all the image import libraries to improve their
        performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
        They're out there, lurking...

      * Adds a window to build animated *throbbers* — examples of which
        are shown here. Additional styles are available in the Throbbers
        window. Throbbers are the graphics that indicate there will be a
        brief delay before something happens. We hasten to add that we
        didn't make up that name.

      * Improves the logic for the application status bar so PNG MNG
        Construction Set doesn't go into vapor lock during long processes.

      * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of PNG MNG Construction Set. This
        allows it to better get along with Windows' memory management
        logic, load a bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably,
        especially if it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of
        memory.

      * Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
        reduce the likelihood of PNG MNG Construction Set un-registering
        itself and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use
        because Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
        this one nails the problem until the end of time.

      * Improves the color management in Animation Wizard and Combine.
        It's a ceaseless quest...

      * Updates the PNG MNG Construction Set document windows to
        correctly display alpha-transparent graphics.

      * Improves the general level of aggressiveness in the Supercompressor.

      * Fixes a bug that prevented several of the plugins from accessing
        the multi-color gradient library.

      * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
        developers never really stop meddling with.

      * Updates the documentation.


          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
    Construction Set 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to a
    *no-cost upgrade* to PNG MNG Construction 9.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
    Construction Set 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade
    to PNG MNG Construction Set 9 for *half the current new-user price*.

    The first time you run PNG MNG Construction 9, it will determine
    which upgrade option applies to your license.

    Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


    You can access the no-cost upgrade page
    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.


          Plugins

    All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been
    upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 9.

    If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of
    PNG MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still
    valid. You'll just need to download the version 9 installers for
    your plugins.

    All the animation plugins are at:


        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>




    *
    *

    *IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
    Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 and you plan to uninstall GIF
    Construction Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 to replace them
    with the new version 9 software, please be sure uninstall all your
    version 8 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 8 and PNG
    MNG Construction Set 8.

    PNG MNG Construction Set 9 will offer to automatically remove your
    old plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will
    save you lots of clicking later on.

    We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
    downloaded the version 9 installers. Please see the the plugin help
    page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for
    assistance.




        Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 2
        (additional notification)


    This release addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the
    initial Graphic Workshop Professional 9. We recommend that all users
    of Graphic Workshop Professional 9 update to this release.

    Among other things, it:

      * Fixes a bug in the plugin interface that caused alpha-channel
        graphics to read incorrectly. This would prevent the In-line
        Graphics Plugin, elsewhere in this posting, from working
        properly with transparent images.

      * Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor toolbox that could cause its
        buttons not to display correctly under some builds of Windows.

      * Addresses several further issues in the gradient window and the
        multi-color gradient control that appears in various places
        around Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications.

      * Adjusts the memory footprint of Graphic Workshop and its
        ancillary applications... or footprints... or feetprint... This
        allows all these applications to better get along with Windows'
        memory management logic, load a bit quicker and run more
        effectively and reliably, especially if they find themselves on
        a system that's a bit short of memory.

      * Addresses some performance issues in the new Print windows.

    __________________________________________________________


    *From The Initial Posting*

    Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been released. We've further
    refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to
    better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten
    to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of
    Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

    Among the new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
    Professional 9, you'll find that it:


      * Adds a *Print Photographs* function. Print your pictures two,
        four, nine or sixteen to a page in eye-watering high resolution
        — with margins and cut lines to trim them out so they look like
        traditional paper photos. Load your color printer with glossy
        paper to complete the effect. Sharing a stack of paper
        photographs with your friends and family is /way/ less scary
        than handing around an $800-dollar smartphone.

      * Adds a *Print Posters* function. Have your best photographs — or
        any other graphics you like look of — printed over multiple
        pages. Cut along the included guides, stick the resulting tiles
        together and you can create posters of pretty much any size you
        like... at least until you run out of paper and sticky tape.

      * Adds a *Print Cube* function. Yes, we did a lot with printers
        this time. Select six pictures and Graphic Workshop will print
        them such that they can be cut out and folded into a
        three-dimensional photo-cube, complete with glue tabs.
        Assembling one of these things entails about five minutes of
        arts and crafts, but they look really cool.

      * Adds a *Print Dodecahedron* function. Contrary to that which is
        believed in some circles, a dodecahedron is twelve-sided
        three-dimensional solid, not an experimental particle
        accelerator in Switzerland powered by extinct flightless birds.
        Select twelve photographs and Graphic Workshop will print them
        out such that they can be cut and folded into a twelve-sided
        desk ornament / yuletide tree decoration / reduced
        attention-span cat toy. In fairness, this one takes a few
        minutes longer to assemble than the aforementioned photo-cube,
        but it's cooler still.

      * Adds *Icon Editor* UltraLight. A simplified version of the
        Windows icon editor feature of our Alpha Paint application, Icon
        Editor UltraLight will create and modify icons with full alpha
        transparency, and a rich selection of tools. Enhance your
        Windows desktop with your own icons, build favicons for your web
        page and generally own the universe... or at least, its
        clickable shortcuts.

      * Enhances the copyright of your photography — adds the option of
        *watermarking* your photographs with *graphics* as well as text
        through the batch mode and View window Watermark functions. The
        graphic watermark functionality supports alpha transparency, so
        you can arrange for fancy text and logos, translucent watermarks
        and innumerable other effects.

      * Adds a prompt to the *View* window to alert you to *unsaved
        changes* made through the Filters function... so you don't
        right-click your flawlessly-refined pictures into oblivion by
        mistake. Note that this prompt can be disabled through the View
        mode Configuration window if you prefer to live dangerously.

      * Renames the *Picture* menu in the View and Crop windows to
        *File*, for those of us with fingers that naturally Alt-F S and
        Alt-F A to Save and Save As.

      * Adds a *Pipes texture* to the Textures and Fractals window.
        Pipes generates intricate, complex tangles of industrial
        plumbing with a variety of color and style options. The
        resulting graphics are wholly tile-able — they can be used as
        Windows wallpaper, web page backgrounds and other repeating
        media. While we'd be the first to agree that it would take
        cleverer minds than ours to find a genuinely practical use for
        Pipes, this is easily one of the most diverting features we've
        added to Graphic Workshop in years.

      * Improves the *File Open* window that appears in Montage
        UltraLight, among others, to display pictures with alpha
        transparency correctly in its preview pane.

      * Adds more color options to the *Channels* filter in the View
        mode Filters window.

      * Fixes a memory leak in the View mode*Undo*.

      * Fixes a bug in the*multiple-color gradient selector* that
        appears at various places around Graphic Workshop itself and its
        ancillary applications, such as Montage UltraLight. This was a
        particularly insidious little menace, which could crash its
        parent application if the Manage Library window were opened,
        under some builds of Windows.

      * Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
        reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop un-registering itself
        and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because
        Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one
        nails the problem until the end of time.

      * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
        developers never really stop meddling with.

      * Updates the documentation.


    The *Graphic
    Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed
    Reference* has been revised for the version9 software, and it
    includes sections for all the new functionality. It's available
    through Amazon -- there's a link to it at the Graphic Workshop web
    page, and you can access it through the Get The Graphic Workshop
    Printed Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu.


    All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in
    the version 9 software. Note that if you're currently using an
    earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:

      * Be sure to uninstall the version 8 plugins before you install
        Graphic Workshop Professional 9. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
        Professional 9 should prompt you to do so automatically the
        first time you run it.

      * You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to
        run under Graphic Workshop Professional 9.

    If you're using a registered copy of the Graphic Workshop RAW
    Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of
    Graphic Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work
    with the version 9 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.


    As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for
    the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic
    Workshop Professional 8 and optionally *copy your existing
    configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
    your open browser windows will be preserved.


    Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 9.


        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>


          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
    Workshop Professional 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to
    a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 9.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
    Workshop Professional 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to
    upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current
    new-user price*.

    The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9, it will
    determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

    Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


    You can access the no-cost upgrade page
    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.




        Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 9 (second notification)


    GIF Construction Set Professional 9 has been released. We've further
    refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to
    better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten
    to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of
    Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

    Among the new features and enhancements to GIF Construction Set
    Professional 9, you'll find that it:

      * Exports GIF animations as *in-line graphics*. This allows
        animations to be embedded directly in the HTML files of web
        pages, rather than referenced as discrete GIF files. Pages so
        constructed load faster, and are pretty much impervious to
        finding that their animations have become lost or damaged.

      * Updates all the image import libraries to improve their
        performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
        They're out there, lurking...

      * Adds a window to build animated *throbbers* — examples of which
        are shown here. Additional styles are available in the Throbbers
        window. Throbbers are the graphics that indicate there will be a
        brief delay before something happens. We hasten to add that we
        didn't make up that name.

      * Improves the logic for the application status bar so GIF
        Construction Set doesn't go into vapor lock during long processes.

      * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of GIF Construction Set. This
        allows it to better get along with Windows' memory management
        logic, load a bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably,
        especially if it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of
        memory.

      * Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
        reduce the likelihood of GIF Construction Set un-registering
        itself and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use
        because Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
        this one nails the problem until the end of time.

      * Improves the color management in Animation Wizard and Combine.
        It's a ceaseless quest...

      * Improves the general level of aggressiveness in the Supercompressor.

      * Fixes a bug that prevented several of the plugins from accessing
        the multi-color gradient library.

      * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
        developers never really stop meddling with.

      * Updates the documentation.


          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
    Construction Set Professional 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're
    welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 9.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
    Construction Set Professional 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite
    you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 9 for *half the
    current new-user price*.

    The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 9, it will
    determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

    Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


    You can access the no-cost upgrade page
    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.


          Plugins

    All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
    been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 9.

    If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of
    GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still
    valid. You'll just need to download the version 9 installers for
    your plugins.

    All the animation plugins are at:


        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>




    *
    *

    *IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
    Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 and you plan to uninstall GIF
    Construction Set 8 or PNG MNG Construction Set 8 to replace them
    with the new version 9 software, please be sure uninstall all your
    version 8 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 8 and PNG
    MNG Construction Set 8.

    GIF Construction Set 9 will offer to automatically remove your old
    plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will
    save you lots of clicking later on.

    We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
    downloaded the version 9 installers. Please see the the plugin help
    page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for
    assistance.




        Graphic Workshop Plugin Updates


    The Graphic Workshop Professional RAW Digital Camera and Smartphone
    plugin — yes, that name has become a bit of a mouthful — and the
    In-line HTML Graphics plugin have been updated.

    The RAW plugin fixes a bug that prevented the Help button in its
    Setup window from correctly opening its help document under some
    builds of Windows.

    The In-line Graphics plugin now supports ILG files with GIF data
    embedded in them. Users of the ILG export features of GIF
    Construction Set Professional 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set 9 might
    find this helpful to check their embedded graphics. We hasten to
    note that the plugin will only display the first frame of a GIF
    animation, should it encounter one as an ILG file.

    Here's the updated RAW plugin:

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#CRW>

    Here's the In-line Graphics plugin:

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#ILG>






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