[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Dec 13 08:43:00 EST 2014




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     Contents:


     1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 4 

     2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (New this Weekend)

     3. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification)

     4. 10 Unsurpassed Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5

     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal



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     1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 4 
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     PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them
       as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal
       monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions.


     - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful
       progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness
       in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup.


     - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that 
       could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now
       displays an additional window after you complete the validation of
       this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal.


     - Adds an Export Image feature to the right-click document menu. Right-
       click on any Image block and you can save it to a graphic file. 
       Should the graphic file you select be the PNG format, it will even
       preserve the original Image chunk's transparency, if it's a 32-bit 
       animation. See the discussion of Cutting, Copying and Pasting Blocks 
       in the Reference document for more about this.


     - Updates a number of minor features of the Animation Wizard.


     - Makes the Supercompressor slightly more aggressive in its eternal
       quest to make animations smaller... some of them, in any case.


     - Fixes a number of minor cosmetic issues in various user interface
       windows.

     - Improves the document window memory management, which will make the
       whole application run somewhat faster, especially on systems with 
       limited resources.

     - Updates the documentation.
  

     You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction 
     Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction 
     Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to PNG MNG 
     Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user 
     license.

     When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5, it will 
     check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 
     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 PNG MNG 
     Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (New this Weekend)
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     GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Fixes a cosmetic bug in the View window progress bar. This is not a
       particularly serious issue - it may make the progress bar extend past
       the edge of its window in some cases. Still, it was a bug and it 
       deserved to die.


     Last week's release:


     - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them
       as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal
       monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions.


     - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful
       progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness
       in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup.


     - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that 
       could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now
       displays an additional window after you complete the validation of
       this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal.


     - Adds an Export Image feature to the right-click document menu. Right-
       click on any Image block and you can save it to a graphic file. 
       Should the graphic file you select be the GIF format, it will even
       preserve the original Image block's transparency, if it's present.
       See the discussion of Cutting, Copying and Pasting Blocks in the
       Reference document for more about this.


     - Updates a number of minor features of the Animation Wizard.


     - Makes the Supercompressor slightly more aggressive in its eternal
       quest to make animations smaller... some of them, in any case.


     - Fixes a number of minor cosmetic issues in various user interface
       windows.

     - Improves the document window memory management, which will make the
       whole application run somewhat faster, especially on systems with 
       limited resources.

     - Updates the documentation.

     
     You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 
     Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 
     Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     3. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
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     Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. 


     - This release addresses a theoretical bug that crept into the revision 
       3 update, and could crash Animation Workshop if the View mode was 
       used.

       We know if no instances of it actually crashing the application, but 
       it's a bug... it deserved to die.


     Previous week's release:


     - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them
       as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal
       monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions.


     - Rewrites the View window for better timing accuracy and a helpful
       progress display. Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness
       in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup.


     - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that 
       could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now
       displays an additional window after you complete the validation of
       this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal.


     - Refines the metrics of the Shape object generator to address a number
       of unanticipated conditions that could cause some o9f the shapes to
       render... well, a little oddly at times.


     - Speeds up the animation rendering engine.


     - Fixes a troublesome resource leak.

       IMPORTANT: If you're still using Animation Workshop 4, we urge you to 
       consider upgrading to Animation Workshop 5. Doing so will resolve 
       the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending 
       Animation Workshop... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark
       nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when
       that happens.


     - Fixes a bug that hitherto caused the entry in the Insert menu for 
       Shape objects to be disabled in some circumstances, when it shouldn't
       have been.


     - Fixes a bug in the Extract function that could cause it to create 
       somewhat peculiar still images files if Windows found itself squeezed
       for resources.


     - Speeds up the File menu history.


     - Updates the documentation.


     - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
       version 5.

     

     You can download Animation Workshop 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4 on 
     or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation 
     Workshop 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4 
     prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Animation Workshop 5 for half 
     the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Animation Workshop 5, it will check to see if you 
     have a registration for Animation Workshop 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 Animation 
     Workshop 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     4. 10 Unsurpassed Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5
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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 Professional 5'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:


     - Build instant distributable photo montages with Montage UltraLight.

     - Manage duplicated files with the Keep Both option of the Overwrite 
       Files prompt. 

     - Instant sidewalk chalk art with the Add Noise filter.

     - Right-click and select Paint to edit any still image, in any 
       supported format. 

     - Turn any image into a seamless background with the Seamless filter.

     - Browse, convert and extract graphics stored in ZIP files.

     - Transmute anything into light and color with the Neon filter.

     - Browse images on CD-ROMs with thumbnails using the Virtual Thumbnail 
       mode.

     - Connect multiple photos with the Stitch filter.

     - Create theft-resistant comps of your photos for distribution.


     You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from:

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

     If you're still using Graphic Workshop 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

     See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter.



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