For Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional will allow it to access graphic files in additional formats.

The available plugins are listed further down this page.

You must have Graphic Workshop Professional 4 to install a plugin, or as noted below. Check the About dialog in the Graphic Workshop Professional Help menu for the version of your software. If your installation of Graphic Workshop Professional is older than version 4, you'll need to upgrade it. Please see the upgrade page to upgrade to the current version.

Please note:

• Some of the available Graphic Workshop Professional plugins listed below have been created by parties other than Alchemy Mindworks. If you need support for these plugins, you must contact their developers, not us.
  
  
• Some plugins are paid-for products — you will need to pay for them separately to use all or part of their functionality, as discussed below.
  
  
• Registerable plugins cannot be registered if they're installed in an unregistered copy of Graphic Workshop Professional. You must register Graphic Workshop before you'll be able to enter registration codes in your plugins.
  
  

To install a Graphic Workshop Professional format plugin:

1. Download the plugin installer for the plugin you wish to install through the appropriate link, below.
2. Run the downloaded installer by clicking on the Start button in your Windows task bar and selecting Run. Select the file you have downloaded. The installer will take care of everything thereafter.
   
   

To configure an installed plugin:

1. Run Graphic Workshop Professional.
2. Click on the Setup button — the gear — in its tool bar.
3. Select the Files tab in the Setup dialog.
4. Select the plugin you wish to configure in the Plugin Configuration combo box, in the upper right corner of the Files tab.
5. Click on Go. A configuration dialog will appear. Click on Help in this dialog for additional assistance.
   
   

View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary Canon, Casio, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma and Sony high-end digital cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG configuration for most cameras is breathtaking.

Note that the Graphic Workshop Professional RAW Plugin will convert raw digital camera files to other formats — it will not download files from your camera. The software that accompanied your camera may be required to manage image downloads.

This plugin costs $34.99 (US). You'll need Graphic Workshop Professional 4 to use it.

The current version of the RAW plugin is upgraded to patch 7, and supports raw files from the following cameras. The current Alchemy Mindworks install CD-ROM ships with patch 7 of the RAW plugin.

Having said this, we have not had the opportunity to try it with all of the foregoing. We urge you to evaluate the plugin with your camera and your image files to ensure that it's behaving as you expect it to before you register it. Please contact us if you encounter any difficulties with this plugin.

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Graphic Workshop RAW Digital Camera Plugin:
Graphic Workshop RAW Digital Camera Plugin:

Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries or holdings. The trade names "EOS," and "PowerShot" are understood to be the property of Canon Inc., and are used in this software and documentation for descriptive purposes only.

The Graphic Workshop PostScript plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to render EPS, PS, AI and PDF files as high-resolution images. It features full multiple-page PDF support, and it will render PDF files either as individual user-selectable pages, or as a single image with all the pages from your original PDF document.

It can also convert graphics in other formats to EPS, PS, AI and PDF files, with some limitations, as discussed in its Help document.

The Graphic Workshop PostScript plugin calls GPL GhostScript to render PostScript files. You must download and install the current 32-bit release of GPL Ghostscript prior to using the plugin. For more about Ghostscript, please consult the documentation for the Graphic Workshop PostScript plugin once it has been installed, as follows:

1. Open the Graphic Workshop Setup window by clicking on the Gear button in the tool bar.
2. Select the Files tab.
3. Select the (EPS) PostScript / PDF item in the Plugin Configuration combo.
4. Click on Go.
5. Click on Help in the plugin configuration window.
   
   

Should you encounter any problems in using the Graphic Workshop PostScript plugin, please consult its Q&A document for assistance... and ghosts.

If your use of Graphic Workshop is predicated upon its being able to work with the document formats supported by the this plugin, we strongly urge you to evaluate Graphic Workshop and the PostScript plugin to ensure that its capabilities are compatible with your expectations.

The Graphic Workshop Professional PostScript plugin is available at no cost to registered users of Graphic Workshop Professional 4, and at no cost to unregistered users of Graphic Workshop Professional 4 for use in evaluating the Graphic Workshop software.

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Graphic Workshop Professional 4 PostScript Plugin:
Graphic Workshop Professional 4 PostScript Plugin:

Ghostscript is a product of and/or a trademark of Artifex Software Inc. PostScript is a product of and/or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Artifex Software Inc. or Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Install this plugin if you wish to have Graphic Workshop Professional view and convert AOL .ART files.

We'd like to take this opportunity to note that the .ART file extension has been used in other contexts, for files that this plugin will not read. If your use of Graphic Workshop is predicated upon its being able to read your ART files, we strongly urge you to run Graphic Workshop and the ART plugin against your ART files to make sure that everyone involved is talking about the same ART.

This plugin is available at no additional cost for registered users of Graphic Workshop Professional 4. Be sure you're running Graphic Workshop 4 prior to installing this plugin.

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Graphic Workshop Professional 4 ART Plugin:
Graphic Workshop Professional 4 ART Plugin:

Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with America On Line or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries or holdings. The trade names referenced in this product are understood to be the property of America On Line (AOL LLC) and are used in this software and documentation for descriptive purposes only.

Install this plugin if you wish to have Graphic Workshop Professional view and convert .SFW files.

This plugin is available at no additional cost for registered users of Graphic Workshop Professional.

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Graphic Workshop Professional 4 SFW Plugin:
Graphic Workshop Professional 4 SFW Plugin:

The developers of the planet's fastest and most sophisticated JPEG and JPEG 2000 technology have built it into a Graphic Workshop Professional plugin. JPEG 2000 is the next generation of JPEG. It features more effective compression and less image degradation. The degree to which the Pegasus JPEG 2000 plugin can make your image files small without objectionable image degradation has to be experienced to be believed.

The Pegasus JPEG 2000 plugin is free to read JPEG 2000 files, and costs $29.00 (US) to register for writing images. Registration for this product is available on line through Accusoft Pegasus.