[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com
Sat Feb 7 08:21:00 EST 2015
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM
THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST
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Contents:
1. Font Wrangler Revision 3
2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 6 (Additional Notification)
4. Moving Windows to a New Computer
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html
(Politicians excepted, as we wouldn't be able to tell if it worked.)
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1. Font Wrangler Revision 3
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Font Wrangler 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds visual thumbnails to the History section of the File menu to
allow you to quickly access recent folders and fonts. We hasten to
add that this feature can be configured or dispensed with entirely in
the Setup window.
- Adds a Save As button to the Font Sample window, allowing the sample
text to be exported to a graphic file.
- Fixes a bug in the Change Font Name function that prevented it from
opening TrueType and OpenType fonts with poorly-formed OS/2 tables.
Please trust us when we assure you that you don't want to know what
that actually means, 'cept it's working properly now.
- Updates the Change Font Name function to deal with several other
weird-beard quasi-valid TrueType font files.
- Speeds up the font display windows.
- Updates the documentation.
- 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.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html#download
to download Font Wrangler 5.
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UPGRADES
If you're still using Font Wrangler 4, we invite you to upgrade to the
current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it
offers.
As of this writing, upgrades to Font Wrangler 5 are still available for
half the single-user registration cost - $12.49.
Please visit
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
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2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
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Presentation Wizard 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.
- Adds an HSB color adjustment option to Image objects. You can fine-
tune the color of pictures after they're imported, or crank the
controls to their extremes and warp the fabric of space-time. The
latter facility should be used with care - warped space-time makes
global warming look like an exuberant sneeze by comparison.
- Rewrites several aspects of the document runtime to make them smaller
and quicker.
- Adjusts the metrics of several of the Shape object options.
- Improves a number of aspects of the Right-click Menu objects.
- Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application.
- Updates the documentation.
- 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.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download
to download Presentation Wizard 5.
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UPGRADES
If you're still using Presentation Wizard 4, we invite you to upgrade to
the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it
offers.
As of this writing, upgrades to Presentation Wizard 5 are still
available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99.
Please visit
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 6 (Additional Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds pin-able favorites. You can pin pictures from Graphic Workshop's
browser windows to your Favorites galleries - a colored push pin will
appear in the thumbnails of pinned pictures. Access your Favorites
galleries by selecting Favorites from the Graphic Workshop File menu.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there's an extensive discussion about the
new Favorites technology in the Reference document.
- 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. The Save As
window in the View window is the one you're most likely to have
encountered.
Adjusting the size of one of the Save As windows within Graphic
Workshop itself will adjust the File Open and Save As windows in all
its ancillary applications, such as GWS Camera Screen Capture,
e-Paint UltraLight, Resource Extractor and so on.
Once you resize one of the File Open or Save As windows within
Graphic Workshop, its new size will be remembered between sessions.
- Fixes a number of problems with the Fractals and Textures engine,
some of which could crash Graphic Workshop. The others just created
really nasty textures.
- Updates the Web Gallery window to fix a bug in the JPG writer, remove
ART support - in that none of the current web browsers seem to like
it anymore either - and address a number of metrics issues.
- Fixes several issues in the Search function, and updates the tool
bar tips.
- Fixes a problem in Resource Extractor that could cause it to crash
or display weird pictures when it was confronted with unusual
Bitmap resource types.
- Fixes a number of cosmetic and user interface issues in GIF
Construction Set UltraLight.
- 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.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
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If you're still using Graphic Workshop 4, we invite you to upgrade to
the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality
it offers.
As of this writing, upgrades to Graphic Workshop 5 are still available
for half the single-user registration cost - $22.49.
Please visit
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
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4. Moving Windows to a New Computer
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Having recently updated some of the hardware at the offices of Alchemy
Mindworks and having proven unwilling to undertake the unspeakable
nihilistic horror of reinstalling Windows and all ten thousand
applications, personal settings, oyster soup recipes, links, device
drivers and passwords... and such... we devised a procedure for moving
an exsiting Windows hard drive to a new computer without having to
reinstall much of anything.
We too were shocked when this worked, but it did. It reduced three or
four days of software installation and configuration to about as many
hours, which included several unscheduled pizza breaks.
Should you find yourself in a comparable situation - with or without
the availability of pizza - you can save your soul and impress your
cat using the same procedure:
http://goo.gl/DwyKUp
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