From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 28 10:55:02 2020 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:55:02 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: ***This is an automatic posting ?from the Alchemy Mindworks Update Mailing List * Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) View this message in your web browser . ?Contents: 1. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 5* (additional notification) 2. *?Announcing Animation Workshop 11 * 3. *?Announcing Presentation Wizard 11 *(second notification)** 4. ***Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 11 *(additional notification) 5. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details* **** *Some poisons require a lifetime to act.* * Click on the book. * Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 5 (additional notification) Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been updated. This release: * *JPG Security: *Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release immediately. * *Archive Manager:* Fixes a bug in Graphic Workshop's stand-alone Archive Manager that could cause it to display spurious file error messages when it extracted documents from a ZIP archive under some configurations of Windows. * *Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Graphic Workshop's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Graphic Workshop's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Browser tab of Graphic Workshop's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us. * *Textures:* Addresses an issue in the Manage Library selector of the Textures and Fractals window that prevented it from correctly responding to double clicks under some configurations of Windows. * *Edge Support:* Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display their documentation. * *Textures:* Fixes a bug in the CGI Granite pane of the Textures and Fractals window that prevented it from correctly applying the last two of its color buttons to the texture being created. * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. If you haven't experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 11 as yet, please see its initial release announcement for a list of all its new and enhanced functionality. Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 11. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. Announcing Animation Workshop 11 Animation Workshop 11 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 Animation Workshop 11, you'll find that it: * *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Animation Workshop to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of Animation Workshop to update to this release immediately. * *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics for Animation Workshop have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date. * *Talkies: *The Export to AVI and Export to MOV options can now add a sound track of your choice to digital video created from your animations. * ***Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Animation Workshop's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Animation Workshop's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Display tab of Animation Workshop's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us. * *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, Alpha Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in Animation Workshop to call for one of these alternate paint applications. The alternate paint selection logic will call e-Paint for graphics without alpha transparency, and Alpha Paint for graphics that have alpha transparency. * *****Rich Text:* Adds Rich Text objects to Animation Workshop. Include text with multiple font changes, typographic effects and colors in your animations. * *Edge Support:* Animation Workshop will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation. * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 10 on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Animation Workshop 11. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop10 prior to May 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 11 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Animation Workshop 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. Announcing Presentation Wizard 11 (second notification) Presentation Wizard 11 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 11, you'll find that it: * *JPG Security:* Updates the library that reads and writes JPG documents for Presentation Wizard to address several potential security issues. We'd like to urge all the users of Presentation Wizard to update to this release immediately. * *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics for Presentation Wizard have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date. * ***Paint:* Adds a Select Paint button to Presentation Wizard's Setup window, allowing the default external paint application to be selected without recourse to editing Presentation Wizard's configuration data. Click on Select Paint in the Files / Display tab of Presentation Wizard's Setup window. The Help button in the Select Paint window will explain everything... trust us. * *Paragraph Text:* Updates the Paragraph Text object editor to correctly handle tab characters, and invoke bold, italic, underscore and strike-through text with Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I, Ctrl-U and Ctrl-S respectively. * *Edge Support:* Presentation Wizard will now find the Microsoft Edge web browser to display its documentation. * *Animation Editor:* Fixes a bug in the animation object editor Preview window, which could render animation backgrounds incorrectly. * *Alternate Paint:* If you have registered the current releases of Alchemy Mindworks e-Paint, Alpha Paint or Graphic Workshop with e-Paint UltraLight, hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a Paint button in Presentation Wizard to call for one of these alternate paint applications. The alternate paint selection logic will call e-Paint for graphics without alpha transparency, and Alpha Paint for graphics that have alpha transparency. * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. Click on the blue button to download Presentation Wizard 11. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 10 on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Presentation Wizard 11. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard10 prior to May 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Presentation Wizard 11 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Presentation Wizard 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 11 (additional notification) We've enhanced functionality of The Ultimate Screen Clock, added some radical new clock styles, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with 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, you'll find that it: * *Deck Watch:* Adds the Deck Watch clock style, available in two sizes and in light and dark manifestations ? the dark version is shown here. A revenant from the age of sail, a deck watch such as this one would have been used to transfer the time from a ship's chronometer to the navigator on deck. While a fifty-dollar GPS could out-navigate one of these things in a heartbeat today, it wouldn't look anywhere near as cool while it was doing so. We hasten to add that the above clock is an animation, not actual software. There's a one in 3600 chance that it's actually displaying the correct time as you read this. * *Magento:* Adds the Magneto clock style, illustrated to your right. Incandescent, luminous, attitude with atomic-time precision... the Magneto style belongs on your desktop and it isn't above pushing some of your other applications out of the way to get there. It comes in a substantial number of permutations of colors and sizes. The animation above is but a pale reflection of the Magneto style. Double-click on it to see the Magneto Large clock full size ? there's a medium size set of styles as well.Once again, the above clock is an animation, not actual software. There's a one in 3600 chance that it's actually displaying the correct time as you read this. * *Sound Effects:* Adds optional sound effects to The Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver. It can beep and crash and zap and generally express itself whenever the moving clock changes direction, appears or otherwise does something interesting. You can enable or disable screen saver sounds in the Application tab of The Ultimate Screen Clock's Setup window. Click on the Sounds button therein to configure your choice of the substantial internal library of sound effects, or import your own. * *Saver Backgrounds: *Adds a number of new screen saver background graphics fresh from an alternate universe. Right-click in The Ultimate Screen Clock and select Styles ? Select Saver Style, and then click on Transitions to experience the entire library. The new Tendrils screen saver background with the large red Magneto clock style floating over it is truly epic. In addition to fractal textures and other abstract content, The Ultimate Screen Clock can use photographs as its screen saver backgrounds. We've added a few examples to the library of backgrounds. No wolves were harmed in the making of this application ? and happily, no photographers. * *Engine:* Updates the clock rendering engine to improve the appearance of various style elements. * *Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write graphics for The Ultimate Screen Clock have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date. * *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation. As in years past, when you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 11for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 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 11. Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll probably also want to install The Ultimate Screen Clock *Extra Styles library*, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles, including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is also accessible through this big blue? button. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 on or after May 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to The Ultimate Screen Clock 11. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock10 prior to May 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 11 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 11, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. Depending upon your configuration of Windows, the installer for The Ultimate Screen Clock may advise you that a reboot of Windows is required to complete the installation of this software. You can largely ignore this message ? Windows will remove a file from your previous installation the next time your computer reboots, but your current installation of The Ultimate Screen Clock can proceed without rebooting immediately. 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