[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 14 * (additional
notification)
2. *GIF Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 5*
3. *e-Paint 12 Revision 4 *(second notification)
4. ***About Upgrades *(second notification)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 14
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been updated.
In this release:
* *Open With:* The Open With item in the right-click menu of Graphic
Workshop's browsers will let you open any picture with your choice
of external applications. Open With has been rewritten to make it
way easier to use.
Open With now automatically includes those ancillary applications
installed with Graphic Workshop that know how to open graphics —
e-Paint UltraLight, GIF Construction Set UltraLight, Icon Editor
UltraLight and so on -- as well as any stand-alone Alchemy Mindworks
applications you have on your system.
It will also preserve your configuration options between major
version changes, and track updates to other Alchemy Mindworks software.
It now includes ZIP and RAR archives, which can be opened in Graphic
Workshop's Archive Manager from its browsers.
Note that the new Open With logic will ignore any previous Open With
items you've configured in earlier releases of Graphic Workshop.
* *Edit EXIF:* Graphic Workshop's Edit EXIF metadata editor has been
updated to deal with a number of hitherto unsupported tag types. It
also displays a thumbnail in its prompt window, should you attempt
to edit the EXIF data in a JPG or PNG document that doesn't turn out
to have any.
* *Transform:* The Transform window has been updated, and several user
interface issues have been addressed. In addition, it will now
display its example graphics based on the Graphic Workshop document
you've right-clicked on, or the first item in a batch, rather than
the traditional little red sports car.
* *Effects:*The Effects window has been also updated, and several user
interface issues have been addressed — pretty much the same ones as
turned up in Transform, above. It too will now display its example
graphics based on the Graphic Workshop document you've right-clicked
on, or the first item in a batch, rather than the aforementioned
traditional little red sports car.
* *Move and Copy: *A cosmetic issue in Move and Copy that caused its
document count text to be truncated under some configurations of
Windows has been addressed.
* *Function Window Thumbnails:* The thumbnail images that appear in
Graphic Workshop's function windows, such as Transform and Effects,
above, have been enhanced to more accurately represent pictures with
alpha transparency, large original dimensions and paletted images.
* *The UltraLight Screen Clock:* The style selector window in The
UltraLight Screen Clock now temporarily disables the clock display
while its open, allowing the style list to be substantially quicker
and more responsive.
* *Presentation Wizard UltraLight:* An issue that caused Presentation
Wizard UltraLight's documents to display incorrect flashing cursors
under some configurations of Windows has been stomped.
If you haven't experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 12 as yet,
please see its initial release announcement
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/1028.html> for a list of all its new and
enhanced functionality.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 11, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop
Professional 12* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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under license from StockFresh.
GIF Construction Set 12 Revision 5
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
GIF Construction Set 12 has been updated.
In this release:
* *Memory Leak:* A decidedly pernicious memory leak in GIF
Construction Set's folder interface under some configurations of
Windows has been stomped. Left to its own devices, it could crash
the application.
We'd like to urge all users of GIF Construction Set to update to
this release as quickly as possible.
* *WebP:* The WebP library interface has been improved. In addition,
the current library version number can now be found in the Credits
list of GIF Construction Set's About window. The current release is
1.2.2.
* *User Interface:* Updates a number of the more frequently used user
interface windows, most notably with thumbnail frames to visually
confirm that you're about to resize, flip, process or otherwise
enhance the document you intended.
* *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 GIF Construction Set 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set 11, we invite you to *upgrade to **GIF Construction Set 12* for half
the single-user license price.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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Fabibel, is used under license from freeimages.com. The chess piece icon
for GIF Construction Set Professional was created by Eugen Buzuk of
icondrawer.com, and is used under license.
e-Paint 12 Revision 4
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
e-Paint 12 has been updated.
In this release:
* *Tool Palette:* The e-Paint tool palette window has been updated. A
number of user interface items have been improved. The most notable
of these is the sample brush window, with hitherto only displayed
the left half of its brushes under some configurations of Windows.
* *Drawing Engine:* The e-Paint drawing engine has been updated to
improve its performance.
* *Gradient:***The Gradient selection window that turns up in various
places in e-Paint has been updated to address a problem that
prevented the center coordinates of a gradient from being set to
negative values under some configurations of Windows.**
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* *Grid:* The Grid window now includes an actual-size example of your
current grid setting, so you can see what it will really look like.
* *Reset:* If you encounter configuration issues with e-Paint that
defy reason and exhaust profanity, you can now return it to its
"just installed" configuration state by holding down the Ctrl key on
your keyboard and running it. You'll be prompted to confirm that
you'd like to reset its configuration.
* *Install:* An issue with the 64-bit installer for e-Paint that could
cause it to install the application incorrectly under some
configurations of Windows has been nailed.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download e-Paint 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 11, we
invite you to *upgrade to **e-Paint 12* for half the single-user license
price.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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Wissink, and is used under license from freeimages.com.
About Upgrades
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/updatey.html>
Users of Graphic Workshop Professional 12 who install the current update
will see a message window offering a no-cost upgrade to the version 14
software, to be released this fall, if they upgrade now.
Much the same message will appear for this week's update to GIF
Construction Set 12.
As the in-application notification message window is by its nature a bit
terse, we wanted to explain this process in greater detail.
All Alchemy Mindworks' software includes our legendary upgrade policy.
If you register or update an existing registration any time in the half
year or so before we release a major upgrade,you'll be welcome to a free
upgrade to the next major release. That's "free" as in "no money down,
no interest or carrying charges and no payments until the end of time."
As we're well into the no-cost upgrade window for several of our
applications, you can upgrade now and enjoy a painless, cashless and
pretty much instantaneous upgrade to version 14 this fall... hence the
aforementioned message window.
We hasten to add that the foregoing also applies to users of any version
11 Alchemy Mindworks software, right now and up until the version 14
applications are released.
If you miss the upgrade window when you install the latest updates,
please visit our upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>. Use the Software Upgrades
section of our e-commerce page to get the reduced price.
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As someone will unquestionably ask, the major version number of our
software is poised to jump from 12, where it's at now, to 14 this fall
because our experience has shown us that a substantial number of our
users are uncomfortable installing anything with the number 13 in its
version. We're not here to judge.
Astute users of Graphic Workshop Professional 12 will have observed that
its revision number skipped revision 13 a few weeks ago, for just this
reason.
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