[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Nov 11 09:25:17 EST 2017
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Contents:
1. Announcing Calendar Wizard 8
2. Announcing Pagan Daybook 8 (second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
4. The Mysterious Disappearance of The Ultimate Screen Clock's
Screen Saver (second Notification)
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Calendar Wizard 8
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Calendar Wizard 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard
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 managing complex calendars.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Calendar Wizard that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- Adds double-sided printer support to allow double-sided bank-style
calendars to be printed without having to pause and turn the paper
over. There's a discussion about the finer nuances of double-sided
printing in the Print section of the Reference document for Calendar
Wizard's manual, but for the most part, if you have a double-sided
printer, Calendar Wizard will detect it and print accordingly.
- Adds a Preserve Pictures option to the Replicate window, allowing the
Replicate function to propagate style changes to an entire calendar
without nuking your existing graphics.
- Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application
with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key
on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's a
complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the
primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that
deals with Color Selection.
- Improves some metrics in the dodecahedral calendars. Should you not
have checked out this feature - it appeared mid-way through the
life of Calendar Wizard 7 - it will print a 12-sided desk calendar
that can be cut out and stuck together to form a three-dimensional
object.
- Calendar Wizard 8 will optionally import most of the configuration
items of an existing Calendar Wizard 7 installation, if there's one
on your system, eliminating the need to restore your preferences by
hand.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Calendar Wizard 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.
- Updates a number of user-interface issues throughout the application.
- 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 Calendar Wizard. 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 Calendar Wizard 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 7 on
or after April 1, 2017, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Calendar
Wizard 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 7
prior to April 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Calendar Wizard 8 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Calendar Wizard 8, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Calendar Wizard 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 of Calendar Wizard.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/calkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. Announcing Pagan Daybook 8 (second Notification)
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Pagan Daybook 8 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook
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 displaying complex fractal
screen savers.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Pagan Daybook that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 7.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 8 include:
- Adds solar transitions functionality - Pagan Daybook can determine the
precise times of sunrise and sunset based on your location.
It will tell you when sunrise and sunset occurs for pretty much
anywhere on Earth - select Days -> Solar Transitions from the
right-click menu.
It will also display the sunrise and sunset times for your location.
We hasten to add that this feature can be disabled - see the
discussion of Solar Transitions in the Reference document of the
Manual for more.
- Nails a bug in the screen saver that could cause it to crash or to
fail to display all or part of the Pagan Daybook window, depending upon
your version and configuration of Windows. Ya... that was an
embarrassing one.
- Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application
with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key
on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's a
complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the
primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that
deals with Color Selection.
- Updates the file handling logic for the Tiles fill type to make
the whole works quicker and more memory efficient.
- Pagan Daybook 8 will optionally import most of the configuration
items of an existing Pagan Daybook 7 installation, if there's one
on your system, eliminating the need to restore your preferences by
hand.
- Hardens the library interface underlying Pagan Daybook 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.
- Updates a number of user-interface issues throughout the application.
- 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 Pagan Daybook. 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 Pagan Daybook 8 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 7 on
or after April 1, 2017, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Pagan
Daybook 8.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 7
prior to April 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 8 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Pagan Daybook 8, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Pagan Daybook 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 of Pagan Daybook.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
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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, you’re 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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4. The Mysterious Disappearance of The Ultimate Screen Clock's
Screen Saver (second Notification)
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Depending upon your version and configuration of Windows, you might
find that The Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver in nowhere to be
found if you upgraded from the version 7 software.
There's a reason for this, but in that e-mail messages are limited to
about two megabytes of text, we're not going to try to explain it here.
If you discover your installation of The Ultimate Screen Clock 8 to be
screen saver-less, please do this:
1. Uninstall The Ultimate Screen Clock 8 through the Windows Control
Panel.
2. Download and install the current release of The Ultimate Screen
Clock 8 from our web page:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download
3. If upon running The Ultimate Screen Clock 8 you're prompted to
copy an earlier configuration to your current software or to
uninstall a previous version, decline these options.
All should now be well.
Please accept our apology if this issue has affected your installation
of The Ultimate Screen Clock 8.
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