[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Jul 5 11:49:34 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. Announcing Font Wrangler 5
2. Announcing Pagan Daybook 5 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
4. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop.
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Font Wrangler 5
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Font Wrangler 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Font Wrangler to make it
faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the
functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Font Wrangler 5
are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find that it's
noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant
system resources.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Font Wrangler that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release:
- Improves the TrueType/OpenType Font construction logic, to allow for
changing the typeface names of a wider range of marginal font files.
- Improves the font collision detection logic, for installing and
uninstalling fonts.
- Addresses a number of user-interface issues.
- Updates the hard-copy "font sheet" generator.
- Font Wrangler requires less memory to run, which will
make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit
speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can download Font Wrangler 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 4 on or
after July 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Font Wrangler 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler 4 prior
to July 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Font Wrangler 5 for half the cost
of a new single-user license.
When you first run Font Wrangler 5, it will check to see if you have a
registration for Font Wrangler 4 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 Font
Wrangler Help -> Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version menu
item.
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 Pagan Daybook 5 (Second Notification)
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Pagan Daybook 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Pagan Daybook to make it
faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the
functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Pagan Daybook 5
are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find
that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for
significant system resources.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Pagan Daybook that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release features some visible changes as well:
- Adds a Preview button to the Theme editor. When you click on Preview,
your current theme will be applied to the main Pagan Daybook window,
so you can see what your proposed selection or the theme you're
creating looks like in real life.
By default, the Preview button will also determine the longest
observance text based on your current typographic choices, so you can
make sure none of the observances will exceed the available space in
Pagan Daybook's main window if you're creating a theme with a font
other than Arial.
We've been trying to figure out how to implement this under version 4
for years.
- Speeds up the background rendering engine and improves its final
appearance.
- Refines a number of user interface issues.
- Improves the color management for animations.
- Updates a number of text and graphic elements in the observance
database.
- Pagan Daybook requires less memory to run, which will
make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit
speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can download Pagan Daybook 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 on or
after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 prior
to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5 for half the cost
of a new single-user license.
When you first run Pagan Daybook 5, it will check to see if you have a
registration for Pagan Daybook 4 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
Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click
menu of Pagan Daybook.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds a Find in Browser feature. Select Find In Browser from the
right-click menu of a Graphic Workshop browser window and you'll be
looking at a field to enter a search key. Quickly locate and step
through each file in your current browser that matches your key.
This is first of the (entirely too many) features we wanted to
implement under the version 4 architecture, and couldn't.
- Adds a new filter to the Filter window in View mode. Check out
Light Box. It turns digital photographs into eyecatching color
halftones.
- Fixes a number of minor issues with the initial build of e-Paint
UltraLight - 'specially the ones that made the tool palette lose
its mind under some builds of Windows.
- Addresses an number of user interface and run-time issues in
Graphic Workshop itself... mostly having to do with the step up to
version 5.
- Improves the Properties window in the crop function.
- Improves the GWS Camera screen capture to allow it to snag a
variety of unconventional windows that used to fox it.
- Fixes a minor bug in the Halftone filter.
- Fixes a bug in the toggled zoom feature of the View window.
- Updates the documentation.
- Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation
that hitherto required each previous release of Graphic Workshop to
be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of
Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can be installed right over the
previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the previous
software as part of the install.
While we're just tickled with how well this worked in house, we are
aware that some third-party install managers and security
applications meddle with the software installation process, and in
so doing might break our clever innovation. If you encounter any
issues with installing this release of Graphic Workshop, please let
us know what happened.
We hasten to add that you'll still need to click on the Enter Your
Registration Key button in the opening window of the newly updated
Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to handle validating it. Assuming
that you allowed Graphic Workshop to save your key to disk last time,
this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the
"thank you" window.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 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 Graphic Workshop
Professional 5'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. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop.
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If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who
don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll
likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked
features of the known universe's most popular image management
software.
Graphic Workshop's ability to do practically everything that can be
done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every day for
years and still miss a few of its better tricks.
Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh
from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account:
- Resize thousands of megapixel photos to screen dimensions in a single
operation.
- Refine your photos with a few clicks - power up Photography Workshop.
- View that downloaded graphic after all - use Identify Mystery File.
- Use the Image menu Filter function to color-adjust whole batches of
photos at once.
- See the world through compound eyes with the Glass Block filter.
- Create instant contact sheets of your photos with the Thumbnail
Catalogs tool.
- Add dimension to your photos with the Curl filter.
- Create instant comps of your photos for distribution with the
Position Only filter.
- Install the MOZ JPEG plugin for really, really, really, really,
really, really, small JPEGS.
- Print the location, time and other metadata with your photos - see
the %X macro.
You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 4, we invite you
to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool
things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please
see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/upgrade.html
Please see http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on
Twitter.
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