[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks 879
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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 5 *(new this weekend)*
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2. * Announcing Calendar Wizard 9*(second notification)**
3. * Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 5 *(additional notification)**
4. ***Announcing Dragonsbane by Steven William Rimmer*
5. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details *
<http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/dragonsbane.html>***Thanks to
everyone who's e-mailed to ask when there would be a new novel by
Steven William Rimmer.
That would be now.
**
Click on the book (or see item 4, below).***
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 5
(new this weekend)
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Addresses a number of issues with the Save and Open *Browser
Tabs* functionality. This update also improves the speed with
which large groups of browser tabs can be opened.
* Updates the *PNG readers and writers* in Graphic Workshop and
its ancillary applications to address some security issues. We
strongly urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this
version to close these potential security holes.
* Improves the *Crop* optimized view mode image quality.
* Improves the *thumbnail* memory management, which will allow for
faster thumbnail displays, especially on systems with limited
resources or lots of other software running.
* Fixes a bug in the file save logic of *Icon Editor UltraLight*
that could cause it to spuriously prompt for a file name.
* Fixes a potential crash in the *GWS Camera* screen capture.
* Addresses a number of user interface issues in *Presentation
Wizard UltraLight*... and updates its example document.
* Improves the color matching logic in *GIF Construction Set
UltraLight's* Animation Wizard.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current new-user price*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Announcing Calendar Wizard 9(second notification)
Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard9, you'll
find that it:
* Adds a feature to print folding wallet calendars, like the one
to your right. Sized to fit conveniently into a wallet — the
name does kind of give it away — Calendar Wizard's wallet
calendars can be customized with your choice of colors, fonts
and special days. Select Print Wallet Calendar from the File menu.**
* 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 that could crash Calendar Wizard and render select
.CLN files unreadable under some builds of Windows if one or
more pictures were deleted.
* Traps wayward mouse clicks that could open the month editing
window if a file was opened by double-clicking in the Open
window... again, under some builds of Windows if you happened to
watch last week's blood moon in proximity to a large dog.
* Improves the logic for the Calendar Wizard application status
bar so Calendar Wizard9doesn't go into vapor lock during long
processes.
* Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Calendar Wizard9. 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 Calendar Wizard9un-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 Calendar Wizard 9 for the first time,
it will look for a previous installation of Calendar Wizard 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 Calendar Wizard9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar
Wizard8 on or after June 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Calendar Wizard9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar
Wizard8 prior to June 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to Calendar
Wizard9 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Calendar Wizard9, 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/calkey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 5
(additional notification)
Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds*interactive resizing* — select an area of a picture open in
Alpha Paint using the Rectangle Section tool, and you can grab
and drag the edges of the selection marquee to resize it. While
most of the interactive resize tools we've encountered have done
some serious damage to the images they were confronted with over
multiple adjustments, the one in Alpha Paint is diabolically
sneaky, and does a superb job of maintaining the quality of
resized image fragments.
* 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...
* Addresses a number of minor issues in the settings pane.
* Improves the drawing engine's performance.
* Improves support for weird and genuinely incorrectly-formed ICO
files.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
__________________________________________________________
*From the first release posting:*
Alpha Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and
manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will create:
* Professional web page images
* Eye-catching effects for social media
* Killer graphics for PowerPoint presentations
* Titles for videos
...and pretty much anything else that requires leading-edge art and
transparency.
In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>Alpha Paint is intuitive,
easy to use and it won't require that you get involved with
complicated mathematics, higher-order spatial dimensions or a manual
that requires more than one human lifetime to read.
Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to successfully operate
a web browser should be able to master Alpha Paint in under an hour.
We invite you to download an evaluation copy of Alpha Paint and try
it out. Click on the huge blue button.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Announcing Dragonsbane by
Steven William Rimmer
<http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/dragonsbane.html>
We'd like to thank everyone who's e-mailed over the past few years
to ask when there would be a new novel by Steven William Rimmer.
It's here, and it's available in e-book and paperback editions
through Amazon.
Please click on the big blue button, below, to find out more about it.
We've been instructed to mention that there are no actual dragons
therein, in that dragons, while mythical and cool, don't really exist.
<http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/dragonsbane.html>
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