[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Oct 3 08:29:00 EDT 2015
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Contents:
1. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 2
2. PNG MNG Construction Set 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
3. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification)
4. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Additional Notification)
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 2
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Presentation Wizard 6 has been updated. This release:
- Adds a Clickable Image option to the Button object. Create large
clickable pictures that behave like clickable graphics at web pages.
Clickable Image buttons can change pages, open documents, access
web sites and do all sorts of other things, just like conventional
buttons. See the discussion of Button objects in the Manual for
more.
- Adds controls to the Display Text editor to adjust the character
spacing and line spacing for Display Text objects. Squeeze your text
into tighter spaces when things get crowded.
- Adds an option to the Header editor to enable a pointing cursor for
clickable objects in a Presentation Wizard document, these being
enabled buttons, check boxes and radio buttons. With the Pointing
Cursor option enabled, your moue cursor will change to a pointing
finger when it passes over a clickable object in a Presentation
Wizard document.
- Fixes several potential memory leaks in the Button object editor.
- Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the
application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain
pathological data.
- Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial
version 6 release.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download Presentation Wizard 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 5
on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to
Presentation Wizard 6.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard
prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 6 for
half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Presentation Wizard 6, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Presentation Wizard 5 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 Presentation
Wizard 6's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. PNG MNG Construction Set 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
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PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 6 has been updated. This release:
- Adds a Caption function. Glue a text caption to the bottom of any
animation, with your choice of fonts, colors and typography. This
is especially useful for animations converted from digital video.
- Fixes a bug in the Text Overlay function... which caused it to not
actually overlay any text under some builds of Windows. This
largely defeated its purpose.
- Allows the Animation Wizard window to autosize itself to fill most
of your monitor area by default when it's reset or opened for the
first time. You can reset Animation Wizard by holding down the
Shift key on your keyboard when you open it.
- Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the
application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain
pathological data.
- Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial
version 6 release.
- 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 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNG Construction
Set 4 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5, you can upgrade to PNG MNG
Construction Set 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade:
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PLUGINS
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of
GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your
plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new
version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins,
and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set.
If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system,
you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows
Control Panel's Programs and Features applet.
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3. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification)
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GIF Construction Set Professional 6 has been updated. This release:
- Fixes a bug in the Caption function that could crash GIF Construction
Set under some builds of Windows. Ooops.
From Revision 2:
- Adds a Caption function. Glue a text caption to the bottom of any
animation, with your choice of fonts, colors and typography. This
is especially useful for animations converted from digital video.
- Fixes a bug in the Text Overlay function... which caused it to not
actually overlay any text under some builds of Windows. This
largely defeated its purpose.
- Allows the Animation Wizard window to autosize itself to fill most
of your monitor area by default when it's reset or opened for the
first time. You can reset Animation Wizard by holding down the
Shift key on your keyboard when you open it.
- Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the
application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain
pathological data.
- Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial
version 6 release.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you have previously registered or upgraded to GIF Construction Set
Professional 4 or GIF Construction Set Professional 5, you can upgrade
to GIF Construction Set Professional 6 for half the cost of a new
single-user license.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade:
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PLUGINS
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of
GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your
plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new
version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins,
and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set.
If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system,
you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows
Control Panel's Programs and Features applet.
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4. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Additional Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been updated - the improved
architecture has allowed us to implement some enhancements and new
functionality that have hitherto been pretty much impossible.
This release:
- Expands the Archive Manager. Right-click on a ZIP or RAR archive and
you'll be able to access its contents. Aside from just extracting
files from an archive, the Archive Manager can now apply all of
Graphic Workshop's batch processes - such as file conversion and
resizing - to some or all of the graphics therein.
You can manage the pictures in a ZIP file without having to unZIP
them to a folder on your hard drive.
- Addresses an issue in the View window that could cause the keyboard
focus to get lost after using the Filters function, under some builds
of Windows. When this happened, any keyboard shortcuts from the View
window's menus disappeared into an alternate reality until a mouse
click got the attention of the window again.
- Allows the View and Crop windows to hide the Windows task bar if you
have the auto-hide option enabled in the task bar's Properties. You
might want to read that one again if it sounded like two Martians
discussing what to order for lunch.
If the View window was maximized and Windows' task bar was set to
automatically hide itself - and then appear when your mouse cursor
approached the bottom of the screen - the task bar could appear and
interfere with the horizontal slider and the zoom toggle at the
bottom of the View window.
The View window will now prevent the task bar from appearing in these
circumstances.
We hasten to add that the interest of the View window in the task bar
only manifests itself if the task bar auto-hide option is on, and that
this feature can be disabled through Graphic Workshop's Setup window.
Finally, note that you can still summon the task by from the View
window with Ctrl-Esc.
- Adds a Paste to Crop item to Graphic Workshop's Edit menu. Paste any
compatible graphic on the Windows clipboard directly to Graphic
Workshop's Crop window.
- Fixes a inconsistency in the Search window's progress monitor.
- Fixes the slider in Slide Show window called from Search, which
previously did pretty much nothing under some builds of Windows.
- Adds a folder history list to the Archive extract window.
- Fixes the View and Slide Show taskbar buttons in the Search and
Favorites windows, that could prove to be largely non-functional
under some builds of Windows.
- Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library for Graphic Workshop's
ancillary applications - e-Paint UltraLght, Montage, Camera and
so on - that could crash the application in question when the
JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data.
- Fixes a resource leak in the browser refresh logic.
You can download Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you have previously registered or upgraded to Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 or Graphic Workshop Professional 5, you can upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user
license.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade:
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PLUGINS
All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been
upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 6.
If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
plugin.
All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 5 and
you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 5 to replace it with the new
Graphic Workshop Professional 6, please be sure uninstall all your
version 5 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 5.
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