[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. **Announcing Font Wrangler 9
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2. **Animation Workshop 9 **********(second notification)****
3. ** Screen Saver Construction Set 9 **(additional notification)****
4. **Graphic Workshop Professional 9 **(additional notification)**
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*If this story had ended differently, you'd be using Font
Wrangler to manage Cyrillic typefaces.
Click on the book.*
Announcing Font Wrangler 9
Font Wrangler 9 has been released. We've further refined its
architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better utilize
the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it
still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the
way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Font Wrangler9, you'll
find that it:
* Adds *ZIP archive support*.
If you like to download fonts from the innumerable font
repositories around the Internet, you'll probably have noticed
that most of them arrive in ZIP archives. While it's hardly
taxing to un-ZIP one or two of these things, doing so for dozens
or even hundreds of ZIPped fonts can be time-consuming and
potentially a bit confusing, as the file names used for fonts
usually lean toward being decidedly cryptic.
Font Wrangler will let you browse, view and install fonts from
within ZIP archives. You won't have to explicitly extract the
TTF or OTF files therein to your hard drive to access them.
* Updates all the *image import and export* libraries to improve
their performance.
* Updates the *font preview window* to maximize its vertical
dimension based on the size of your desktop. Unless you
configure it to use a really large point size or you preview
extremely weird fonts, you shouldn't have to scroll around to
see the entire font listing.
* Updates the default behavior of the *list right-click menus* to
operate on the font that has been clicked on, rather than those
that have been selected. Note that you can revert to the
previous behavior for the right-click menus in Setup, should you
prefer it.
* Adds a *tool bar* to the Font Wrangler application window, to
make accessing its primary functions easier and more intuitive.
* Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Font Wrangler 9. This allows
it to better get along with Windows' memory management logic,
load a bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably,
especially if it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of
memory.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
reduce the likelihood of Font Wrangler 9un-registering itself
and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because
Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one
nails the problem until the end of time.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run Font Wrangler 9 for the first time,
it will look for a previous installation of Font Wrangler 8 and
optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to
set everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Font Wrangler 9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/fontrang.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler8
on or after May 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Font Wrangler9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Font Wrangler8
prior to May 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to Font Wrangler9 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Font Wrangler9, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/fntkey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
Animation Workshop 9 (second notification)
Animation Workshop 9 has been released. We've further refined its
architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better utilize
the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it
still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the
way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Animation Workshop 9,
you'll find that it:
* Exports GIF animations as *in-line graphics*. This allows
animations to be embedded directly in the HTML files of web
pages, rather than referenced as discrete GIF files. Pages so
constructed load faster, and are pretty much impervious to
finding that their animations have become lost or damaged.
* Updates all the*image import libraries* to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
They're out there, lurking...
* Improves the logic for the application status bar so Animation
Workshop doesn't go into vapor lock during long processes.
* Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Animation Workshop. This
allows it to better get along with Windows' memory management
logic, load a bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably,
especially if it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of
memory.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
reduce the likelihood of Animation Workshop un-registering
itself and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use
because Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully
this one nails the problem until the end of time.
* Improves the *rendering engine*. It's a ceaseless quest...
* Improves the general level of aggressiveness in the GIF export
*Supercompressor*.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run Animation Workshop 9 for the first
time, it will look for a previous installation of Animation
Workshop8 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you
won't have to set everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 8 on or after May 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Animation Workshop 9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 8 prior to May 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to
Animation Workshop9 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 9, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 9
(second notification)
Screen Saver Construction Set 9 has been released. We've further
refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to
better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten
to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of
Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Screen Saver Construction
Set 9, you'll find that it:
* Implements *Remote C**o**ntent* objects — add graphics,
animations and text to your presentations that are pulled from
the web, rather than stored in your documents. Add special
offers, announcements and other content that can be changed
after your screen savers have been distributed.
* Updates all the *image import* libraries to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
They're out there, lurking...
* Fixes a bug in the *ANIMAL* StrCmp and StrCmpI functions.
* Improves the On Close functionality. Should you have missed this
one, it allows the screen savers you create to optionally access
your web page, should a user of your artistry want to know more
about whatever was happening while the screen saver was running.
* Updates the document runtime to make it more memory efficient
and compatible with contemporary Windows platforms.
* Improves the logic for the application status bar so Screen
Saver Construction Set 9doesn't go into vapor lock during long
processes.
* Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Screen Saver Construction Set
9. This allows it to better get along with Windows' memory
management logic, load a bit quicker and run more effectively
and reliably, especially if it finds itself on a system that's a
bit short of memory.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
reduce the likelihood of Screen Saver Construction
Set9un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that its key
is already in use because Windows 10 has silently updated
something. Hopefully this one nails the problem until the end of
time.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run Screen Saver Construction Set 9 for
the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Screen
Saver Construction Set 8 and optionally *copy your existing
configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Screen Saver Construction Set 9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to Screen Saver Construction Set9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade
to Screen Saver Construction Set9 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Screen Saver Construction Set9, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/scskey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 3
(additional notification)
This release adds a number of oft-requested features to Graphic
Workshop, now rendered possible by its improved internal
architecture. It also slaps down a few bugs that crept into the
initial upgrade.
Among other things, it:
* Adds a shortcut in the View window to copy the current image to
the Windows *clipboard* — hold down the Shift key on your
keyboard and click on the i button in the tool bar.
* Fixes a bug in the GWS Camera *screen capture* that could
prevent it from creating Graphic Workshop thumbnails under some
builds of Windows.
* Fixes a gradient bug in the *Textures* window.
* Fixes a problem with the *Text tool* in the Graphic Workshop
icon editor.
* Increases the maximum font size for the *Text tool* in the icon
editor.
* Adds a shortcut to the View window to *save your current image*
back to its parent disk file — hold down the Shift key on your
keyboard and click on the Save as button in the tool bar.
* Updates all the *image import* libraries for Graphic Workshop's
ancillary applications to improve their performance and to deal
with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files. They're out there,
lurking...
* Allows those buttons in Graphic Workshop's main application
window tool bar that actually process images *drag-and**-drop*
aware. You can now select one or more files in a browser window
and drag them to the buttons for Convert, Effects, Transform,
View, Delete... and several others... to process them, rather
than clicking. More to the point, you can drag files from other
applications, such as Windows Explorer, to the buttons in
question to process them as well. The metaphors just never end...
* Adds *keyboard**shortcuts* for many of the functions in Graphic
Workshop's main application window. Open its menus to see them all.
* Implements a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements in
*e-Paint UltraLight* that came to light while we were borrowing
functionality from it to build Alpha Paint and Graphic
Workshop's icon editor.
__________________________________________________________
*From The Initial Posting*
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been released. We've further
refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to
better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten
to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of
Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
Professional 9, you'll find that it:
* Adds a *Print Photographs* function. Print your pictures two,
four, nine or sixteen to a page in eye-watering high resolution
— with margins and cut lines to trim them out so they look like
traditional paper photos. Load your color printer with glossy
paper to complete the effect. Sharing a stack of paper
photographs with your friends and family is /way/ less scary
than handing around an $800-dollar smartphone.
* Adds a *Print Posters* function. Have your best photographs — or
any other graphics you like look of — printed over multiple
pages. Cut along the included guides, stick the resulting tiles
together and you can create posters of pretty much any size you
like... at least until you run out of paper and sticky tape.
* Adds a *Print Cube* function. Yes, we did a lot with printers
this time. Select six pictures and Graphic Workshop will print
them such that they can be cut out and folded into a
three-dimensional photo-cube, complete with glue tabs.
Assembling one of these things entails about five minutes of
arts and crafts, but they look really cool.
* Adds a *Print Dodecahedron* function. Contrary to that which is
believed in some circles, a dodecahedron is twelve-sided
three-dimensional solid, not an experimental particle
accelerator in Switzerland powered by extinct flightless birds.
Select twelve photographs and Graphic Workshop will print them
out such that they can be cut and folded into a twelve-sided
desk ornament / yuletide tree decoration / reduced
attention-span cat toy. In fairness, this one takes a few
minutes longer to assemble than the aforementioned photo-cube,
but it's cooler still.
* Adds *Icon Editor* UltraLight. A simplified version of the
Windows icon editor feature of our Alpha Paint application, Icon
Editor UltraLight will create and modify icons with full alpha
transparency, and a rich selection of tools. Enhance your
Windows desktop with your own icons, build favicons for your web
page and generally own the universe... or at least, its
clickable shortcuts.
* Enhances the copyright of your photography — adds the option of
*watermarking* your photographs with *graphics* as well as text
through the batch mode and View window Watermark functions. The
graphic watermark functionality supports alpha transparency, so
you can arrange for fancy text and logos, translucent watermarks
and innumerable other effects.
* Adds a prompt to the *View* window to alert you to *unsaved
changes* made through the Filters function... so you don't
right-click your flawlessly-refined pictures into oblivion by
mistake. Note that this prompt can be disabled through the View
mode Configuration window if you prefer to live dangerously.
* Renames the *Picture* menu in the View and Crop windows to
*File*, for those of us with fingers that naturally Alt-F S and
Alt-F A to Save and Save As.
* Adds a *Pipes texture* to the Textures and Fractals window.
Pipes generates intricate, complex tangles of industrial
plumbing with a variety of color and style options. The
resulting graphics are wholly tile-able — they can be used as
Windows wallpaper, web page backgrounds and other repeating
media. While we'd be the first to agree that it would take
cleverer minds than ours to find a genuinely practical use for
Pipes, this is easily one of the most diverting features we've
added to Graphic Workshop in years.
* Improves the *File Open* window that appears in Montage
UltraLight, among others, to display pictures with alpha
transparency correctly in its preview pane.
* Adds more color options to the *Channels* filter in the View
mode Filters window.
* Fixes a memory leak in the View mode*Undo*.
* Fixes a bug in the*multiple-color gradient selector* that
appears at various places around Graphic Workshop itself and its
ancillary applications, such as Montage UltraLight. This was a
particularly insidious little menace, which could crash its
parent application if the Manage Library window were opened,
under some builds of Windows.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop un-registering itself
and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because
Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one
nails the problem until the end of time.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
The *Graphic
Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed
Reference* has been revised for the version9 software, and it
includes sections for all the new functionality. It's available
through Amazon -- there's a link to it at the Graphic Workshop web
page, and you can access it through the Get The Graphic Workshop
Printed Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu.
All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in
the version 9 software. Note that if you're currently using an
earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 8 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 9. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 9 should prompt you to do so automatically the
first time you run it.
* You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to
run under Graphic Workshop Professional 9.
If you're using a registered copy of the Graphic Workshop RAW
Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of
Graphic Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work
with the version 9 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for
the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 and optionally *copy your existing
configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
your open browser windows will be preserved.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to
a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current
new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
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