[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Jun 13 08:22:00 EDT 2015
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Contents:
1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6
2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7
(Second Notification)
3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 8 for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 (Second Notification)
4. MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Updated
(Second Notification)
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6
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Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release:
- Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in
Animation Workshop from correctly setting the keyboard focus in
the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows
and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and
this included a few of us.
- Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create
spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend
an inordinate amount of time trying to do so.
- Improves the timing of the View window.
- Improves the rendering engine.
- Addresses some text metric issues in Text objects when they're
confronted with weird-beard fonts.
- Improves the Watermark function.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download Animation Workshop 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you're still using Animation 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 Animation Workshop 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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2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7
(Second Notification)
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PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in PNG
MNG Construction Set from correctly setting the keyboard focus in
the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows
and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and
this included a few of us.
- Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create
spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend
an inordinate amount of time trying to do so.
- Improves the timing of the View window.
- Improves the Banners function.
- Improves the color management of the Text Overlay function.
- Updates a number of minor metrics issues in the Status Panel
generator.
- Improves the Watermark function.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- 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're still using PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 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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3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 8 for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 (Second Notification)
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The RAW plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional has been updated to
support a number of new cameras, and to improve its image processing
speed.
The RAW Digital Camera Plugin currently supports 574 digital cameras.
We recommend that users of the RAW plugin download and install the
current release.
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View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary
Canon, Casio, Hasselblad, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta,
Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Fuji and Sony high-end digital
cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest
possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved
detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic
Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG
configuration for most cameras is breathtaking.
This plugin costs $34.99.
If you own a supported digital camera - or if you're just thinking
about buying one - you and your immediate descendants will thank you
for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a
complete list of the cameras the plugin supports.
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You can download the plugin at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW
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IMPORTANT:
You must be running Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to install this
plugin.
If you're running Graphic Workshop 4, you can still upgrade to the
current Graphic Workshop Professional 5 software for half price.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
Registration keys bought for earlier versions of the RAW Digital
Camera plugin are still valid for the version 5 release of the plugin.
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(Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax
Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc.,
Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or
Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of
America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates,
subsidiaries or holdings.)
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4. MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Updated
(Second Notification)
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The MOZ JPEG plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to write the smallest
possible JPG files. It has been updated to address a memory management
issue that could crash Graphic Workshop in some albeit fairly obscure
situations.
The functionality that drives the MOZ JPEG plugin was developed by
Mozilla, the creators of the exemplary Firefox web browser. It uses
sophisticated enhancements to conventional JPEG logic to create JPG
files that are typically about ten percent smaller than files written by
Graphic Workshop's internal JPG processor, with no loss of image quality.
This plugin is available at no cost for users of Graphic Workshop
Professional 5. See the discussion of JPG files in the Formats
document of the Graphic Workshop manual for more about the MOZ JPEG
processor.
We urge all current users of the MOZ JPEG plugin to install this update.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ
to download this plugin.
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