[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Sep 17 09:38:45 EDT 2016
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Contents:
1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 7
2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 Revision 7 (Second Notification)
3. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 7
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Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop
Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able
to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call
for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 6.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 7 include:
- Graphic Workshop now includes Scrapbook, a stand-alone clipboard
manager that will automatically store items pasted to the Windows
clipboard from any application, and allow you to browse and recall
them when you want to use them again.
- Adds an Adjust window to let you quickly... and interactively...
fine-tune your photographs. Right-click on any picture and select
Adjust from the menu that appears.
- Graphic Workshop Professional 7 uses an altered installation
structure that's way more resistant to being broken by
malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software.
We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file"
error is history.
- The GIF Construction Set UltraLight animation software that installs
with Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been completely rewritten,
and is now a simplified version of our GIF Construction Set
Professional application.
- The View mode Filters window will now optimize itself to use most of
your desktop area, allowing for much larger sample panes. This
behavior can be disabled in Setup, should you prefer the classic
Filters interface.
- The Save As window now includes the Graphic Workshop format selection
tiles, for quicker file saves.
- Adds a history stack to the View window. Hold down the Shift key and
right-click to step back through your zoom and view events. See the
View section of the Reference document of the Manual for a compete
discussion of this feature.
- Graphic Workshop Professional 7 now includes a stand-alone Archive
Manager to create, manage, extract and modify ZIP archives... really,
really quickly.
- Fixes a bug in the EMF reader that could cause some metafiles to appear
distorted.
- Fixes a bug in the View window that prevented alpha-enabled images
from displaying transparency correctly after the Filter window was
invoked and Undo was activated.
- Fixes a bug in the Watermark function N macro that caused it to expand
incorrectly under some builds of Windows.
- Updates the View mode Configuration window with additional options.
- Addresses several issues with the Photography Workshop window.
- Fixes a bug that could crash Graphic Workshop if documents were
written to formats supported by plugins.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, youre welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 7, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 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 7's menu bar.
The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on
November 30, 2016.
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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PLUGINS
All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been
upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 7.
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 7 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 6 and
you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 6 to replace it with the new
Graphic Workshop Professional 7, please be sure uninstall all your
version 6 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 6.
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2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 Revision 7 (Second Notification)
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The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 has been updated. This release:
- Improves the Font clock logic to deal with a wider range of
weird-beard TrueType fonts downloaded from Mars, having funky
metrics.
- Fixes a potential memory leak under some builds of Windows.
- Fixes a potential resource leak when one of the custom clock styles
is in use.
- Improves the performance of the Styles selection window.
- Addresses several cosmetic issues in the Alarm Clock window.
- Addresses some date logic issues in the Days Until and Days Between
windows.
- Updates the World Time window.
- Speeds up the Net Time functionality when it's running on a slow or
particularly busy machine.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you have previously registered or upgraded to The Ultimate Screen
Clock 4 or The Ultimate Screen Clock 5, you can upgrade to The Ultimate
Screen Clock 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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