[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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          Contents:


     1. ** Announcing Presentation Wizard 9
        **
     2. ** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 **(second notification)**
        **
     3. *Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9*(second notification)**
     4. ***Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 9***(additional
        notification)
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        Announcing Presentation Wizard 9


    Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard 9,
    you'll find that it:

      * Implements *Remote C**o**ntent* objects — add graphics,
        animations and text to your presentations that are pulled from
        the web, rather than stored in your documents. Add special
        offers, announcements and other content that can be changed
        after your Presentation Wizard documents have been distributed.

      * 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...

      * Fixes a bug in the *ANIMAL* StrCmp and StrCmpI functions.

      * Updates the document runtime to make it more memory efficient
        and compatible with contemporary Windows platforms.

      * Improves the logic for the application status bar so
        Presentation Wizard 9doesn't go into vapor lock during long
        processes.

      * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Presentation Wizard 9. 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 Presentation Wizard 9un-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.

    As in years past, when you run Presentation Wizard 9 for the first
    time, it will look for a previous installation of Presentation
    Wizard 8 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you
    won't have to set everything up by hand.


    Click on the blue button to download Presentation Wizard 9.

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



          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation
    Wizard 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost
    upgrade* to Presentation Wizard9.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation
    Wizard8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to
    Presentation Wizard9 for *half the current new-user price*.

    The first time you run Presentation Wizard9, 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/prskey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.




        Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 3
        (new this weekend)


    This release adds a number of oft-requested features to Graphic
    Workshop, now rendered possible by its improved internal
    architecture. It also slaps down a few bugs that crept into the
    initial upgrade.

    Among other things, it:

      * Adds a shortcut in the View window to copy the current image to
        the Windows *clipboard* — hold down the Shift key on your
        keyboard and click on the i button in the tool bar.

      * Fixes a bug in the GWS Camera *screen capture* that could
        prevent it from creating Graphic Workshop thumbnails under some
        builds of Windows.

      * Fixes a gradient bug in the *Textures* window.

      * Fixes a problem with the *Text tool* in the Graphic Workshop
        icon editor.

      * Increases the maximum font size for the *Text tool* in the icon
        editor.

      * Adds a shortcut to the View window to *save your current image*
        back to its parent disk file — hold down the Shift key on your
        keyboard and click on the Save as button in the tool bar.

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

      * Allows those buttons in Graphic Workshop's main application
        window tool bar that actually process images *drag-and**-drop*
        aware. You can now select one or more files in a browser window
        and drag them to the buttons for Convert, Effects, Transform,
        View, Delete... and several others... to process them, rather
        than clicking. More to the point, you can drag files from other
        applications, such as Windows Explorer, to the buttons in
        question to process them as well. The metaphors just never end...

      * Adds *keyboard**shortcuts* for many of the functions in Graphic
        Workshop's main application window. Open its menus to see them all.

      * Implements a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements in
        *e-Paint UltraLight* that came to light while we were borrowing
        functionality from it to build Alpha Paint and Graphic
        Workshop's icon editor.

    __________________________________________________________


    *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.



        Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 4

    This release addresses a number of issues in the initial version,
    including:

      * Fixes a bug in the Text tool.

      * Increases the maximum font size available to the Text tool. You
        can increase this further if you like really honking big text —
        see the discussion thereof in the section of the Reference
        document that deals with the Aext tool.

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

      * ... and several further nettlesome concerns.

    __________________________________________________________


    *From the first release posting:*

    Alpha Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and
    manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will create:

      * Professional web page images
      * Eye-catching effects for social media
      * Killer graphics for PowerPoint presentations
      * Titles for videos

    ...and pretty much anything else that requires leading-edge art and
    transparency.

    In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>Alpha Paint is intuitive,
    easy to use and it won't require that you get involved with
    complicated mathematics, higher-order spatial dimensions or a manual
    that requires more than one human lifetime to read.

    Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to successfully operate
    a web browser should be able to master Alpha Paint in under an hour.

    We invite you to download an evaluation copy of Alpha Paint and try
    it out. Click on the huge blue button.

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


    If you'd like to share your experience with Alpha Paint, or if you
    have any suggestions or you encounter a problem with the initial
    release, please click on this next huge blue button.

        <http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html>




        Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 9
        (additional notification)


    The Ultimate Screen Clock 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 The Ultimate Screen Clock
    9, you'll find that it:

      * Adds the indescribable *Nightwing* analog clock style. There's a
        picture of it to your right, but you really need to see this
        intricate steampunk alternate-reality mechanical nightmare on
        your desktop to fully appreciate it. Nightwing comes in two
        sizes, with your choice of hand colors. Be very afraid.

      * Adds a *Transitions* mode to the screen saver background
        selections. Transitions serves to keep The Ultimate Screen
        Clock's screen savers from getting old by changing their
        backgrounds every few minutes. You can configure which
        backgrounds are included in its rotation, and how long it should
        sleep between switches.

      * Adds the evocative *Odometer* digital clock style. While several
        examples of the Odometer style are illustrated here, we hasten
        to point out that in real life, this one's animated. Its digits
        roll up, just like in a classic car from a forgotten epoch when
        everything ran on vacuum lines and gears. The Odometer style
        comes in two sizes, seven colors, three degrees of retro, with
        and without a bezel. There are a lot of permutations of it
        — many of them are available in the extra styles library.

      * Replaces the *Steampunk* screen saver background tiles with pipe
        textures generated by Graphic Workshop. Should you not have
        checked out this unique feature of Graphic Workshop, its pipe
        texture tiles are woven of complex industrial plumbing — made to
        look like brass, in this case. Once again, the example
        illustrated here largely fails to do justice to the sprawling
        vista of all this hardware encompassing your entire desktop...
        with a clock floating over it, of course.

      * 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 the *Base* clock style, a minimalist black and white clock
        with no effects, enhancements or aviatorial appendages, for
        users who just want to know what time it is. For practical
        purposes, Base is more or less the Reflection style with no
        reflection.

      * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of The Ultimate Screen Clock.
        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.

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

      * Updates the documentation.

    As in years past, when you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 9 for the
    first time, it will look for a previous installation of The Ultimate
    Screen Clock 8 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so
    you won't have to set everything up by hand.


    Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 9.

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



          Upgrades

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
    Screen Clock8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to a
    *no-cost upgrade* to The Ultimate Screen Clock9.

    If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
    Screen Clock8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to
    The Ultimate Screen Clock9 for *half the current new-user price*.

    The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock9, 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/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on
    the foregoing link.







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