[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Oct 14 09:21:00 EDT 2017
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Contents:
1. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 2
2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 8 (Second Notification)
3. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 8 (Second Notification)
4. The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference now at Amazon Canada
(Second Notification)
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 2
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Graphic Workshop Professional 8 has been updated.
This release:
- Addresses a number of issues that crept into the initial release of
Graphic Workshop Professional 8.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Graphic Workshop to make it
more resistant to tampering. Sadly, the tampering in question
appears to originate with some third-party security applications...
which our lawyers would really prefer we didn't name.
We urge all users of Graphic Workshop Professional 8 to install this
upgrade, and any users of earlier versions to consider upgrading as
quickly as possible.
You can download Graphic Workshop Professional 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
Should this be the first you've heard of Graphic Workshop
Professional 8, please see the original announcement for it at:
http://mindworkshop.com/pipermail/newsletter/Week-of-Mon-20170911.txt
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 on or after March 1, 2017, youre welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 prior to March 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 8, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 7 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 8's menu bar.
The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on
November 30, 2017.
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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2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 8 (Second Notification)
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PNG MNG Construction Set 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of PNG MNG Construction Set
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 PNG MNG
Construction Set 8 are "under the hood," users of the latest release
will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that
call for significant system resources, such as assembling complex
animations.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
PNG MNG Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely
impossible under version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- Adds a batch processor. Apply most of the functions of PNG MNG
Construction Set's Chunk menu - such as Resize, Color and Balance,
Watermark and more - to multiple animations using a Graphic Workshop-
like browser interface. Save hours of clicking and dragging and
prevent your mouse from being melted down to a puddle of liquid
e-waste.
See the discussion of the Batch Processor in the Reference document of
PNG MNG Construction Set's Manual.
- Enhances the Adjust window, with better filtering and numeric controls
for more repeatable effects.
- Improves the color management of Animation Wizard for more realistic
color reduction.
- Improves the color management of the Combine window - astute users
will have surmised that this is the same color management logic as
appears in Animation Wizard.
- Updates the Color and Balance window to make it more intuitive.
- Addresses a number of metrics issues in Titles and Credits.
- Improves the path management in the Export functions of the File menu.
- Improves the thumbnailing logic that turns up in the File menu, the
Transitions window, the Animation wizard window and various other
places to make it quicker and more attractive.
- PNG MNG Construction Set 8 will optionally import most of the
configuration items of an existing PNG MNG Construction Set 7
installation, if there's one on your system, eliminating the need to
restore your preferences by hand.
It will also remove your earlier software and its attendant plugins
for you if you like. See the discussion of updating plugins below.
- Hardens the library interface underlying PNG MNG Construction Set to
make it more resistant to tampering. Sadly, the tampering in question
appears to originate with some third-party security applications...
which our lawyers would really prefer we didn't name.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
We'd like to take this opportunity to express our sincere regrets for
the minor bump in the price of PNG MNG Construction Set. In our defense,
it's been about a decade and a half since it last changed. Bookkeepers
may not be the most irresistible force in the universe, but they are
the most relentless.
You can download PNG MNG Construction Set 8 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 7 on or after March 1, 2017, youre welcome to a free upgrade to
PNG MNG Construction Set 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction
Set 7 prior to March 1, 2017, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction
Set 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set 8, it will check to see if
you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 7 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 8'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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PLUGINS
All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been
upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 8.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG
MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 8 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 7 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 7 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 7 or PNG MNG Construction Set 7 to replace them with the new
version 8 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 7 plugins,
and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 7 and PNG MNG Construction Set 7.
PNG MNG Construction Set 8 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save you
lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 8 installers. Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032
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2. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 8 (Second Notification)
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GIF Construction Set Professional 8 has been updated.
We've refined the internal architecture of GIF Construction Set
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 GIF Construction
Set Professional 8 are "under the hood," users of the latest release
will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that
call for significant system resources, such as assembling complex
animations.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
GIF Construction Set Professional that were impractical or genuinely
impossible under version 7.
........................................................................
WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
THIS RELEASE:
- Addresses a few bugs that crept into the initial release of the batch
processor.
- Improves the path management in the Export functions of the File menu.
LAST WEEK'S RELEASE
- Adds a batch processor. Apply most of the functions of GIF
Construction Set's Block menu - such as Resize, Color and Balance,
Watermark and more - to multiple animations using a Graphic Workshop-
like browser interface. Save hours of clicking and dragging and
prevent your mouse from being melted down to a puddle of liquid
e-waste.
See the discussion of the Batch Processor in the Reference document of
GIF Construction Set's Manual.
- Enhances the Adjust window, with better filtering and numeric controls
for more repeatable effects.
- Improves the color management of Animation Wizard for more realistic
color reduction.
- Improves the color management of the Combine window - astute users
will have surmised that this is the same color management logic as
appears in Animation Wizard.
- Updates the Color and Balance window to make it more intuitive.
- Addresses a number of metrics issues in Titles and Credits.
- Improves the thumbnailing logic that turns up in the File menu, the
Transitions window, the Animation wizard window and various other
places to make it quicker and more attractive.
- GIF Construction Set Professional 8 will optionally import most of the
configuration items of an existing GIF Construction Set Professional 7
installation, if there's one on your system, eliminating the need to
restore your preferences by hand.
It will also remove your earlier software and its attendant plugins
for you if you like. See the discussion of updating plugins below.
- Hardens the library interface underlying GIF Construction Set to make
it more resistant to tampering. Sadly, the tampering in question
appears to originate with some third-party security applications...
which our lawyers would really prefer we didn't name.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
We'd like to take this opportunity to express our sincere regrets for
the minor bump in the price of GIF Construction Set. In our defense,
it's been about a decade and a half since it last changed. Bookkeepers
may not be the most irresistible force in the universe, but they are
the most relentless.
You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 8 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 7 on or after March 1, 2017, youre welcome to a free
upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set
Professional 7 prior to March 1, 2017, you can upgrade to GIF
Construction Set Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user
license.
When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 8, it will check to
see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 7
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 8'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
........................................................................
PLUGINS
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 8.
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 8 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 7 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 7 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 7 or PNG MNG Construction Set 7 to replace them with the new
version 8 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 7 plugins,
and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 7 and PNG MNG Construction Set 7.
GIF Construction Set 8 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save you
lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 8 installers. Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032
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4. The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference now at Amazon Canada
(Second Notification)
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After a somewhat interminable delay working its way through the
intricate machinations of Amazon, the Graphic Workshop Printed
Reference book is now available through Amazon Canada.
It has been available for several weeks pretty much everywhere else...
things just seem to take longer up here.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html
for more about the book. The blue Amazon CA button will get you to the
Amazon Canada page for it.
Thanks to everyone who e-mailed about it - sorry for the wait.
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