Linux for Designers

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. This versions offers new dialogs, improved sfnt header checks, a new russian translation, some new Python commands and of course bugfixes & improvements. Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

If you are missing features in Gimp and didn't like to pay a lot for Photoshop you should definitely tryout Photoline. It's powerfull and stable as Photoshop itself, has the best PSD file support i ever saw and it is really cheap.
The only bad thing is you need Wine to get it running on Linux. At the moment i getting some problems with the icons of the toolbars and sometimes the cursor is not visible. I think this could be fixed soon when a new stable version of Wine is available.
All about Photoline 14.51 can be found in the release notes.
UPDATE: I added a bug report to the bugzilla of the Wine project.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations. Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port.

...i was very busy the last days. I had a talk at the T3AK'08 and at area42 i have to finish SweeTS 1.20. SweeTS is a development enviroment for TypoScript and a external TypoScript editor. TypoScript is the template language of the content management system (CMS) TYPO3.
Besides that i launched the tyClipse project that will bring TYPO3 and TypoScript development to Eclipse.

Just some days ago PDFedit was released as a new version and is now being updated again. This is just a bugfix release of 0.4.
You can grab a Deb archive at getdeb.net!

Yesterday i checked out the gEdit plugins page again about something new. And i found it. Two plugins for bookmarking files and code lines.

Advanced Bookmarks
adds an panel below the code window and lets you easily bookmark the active code line. These bookmarks will be stored, so if you reopening the file again you will get your code line bookmarks back again.

Bookmarks
will add an item in the main menu and let you set bookmarks to often edited files.

I updated the instructions about "Using SweeTS" at the bottom of the SweeTS webpage. It contains now helpful informations about getting off the template caching and how to get *.ts files edited in the backend of Typo3.

To get *.ts files edited in the backend of Typo3 you must allow editing of files and add this line to your "typo3conf/localconf.php"

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['textfile_ext'] = 'txt,html,htm,css,inc,php,php3,tmpl,js,sql,ts';

Add this into your user TSconfig field in the backend at Tools > Useradmin:

admPanel.override.tsdebug.forceTemplateParsing = 1

So while you are logged in into the backend (may over the browser sidebar) you don't have
to clear the cache.
These and other new hints will improve your workflow so much - check it out!

When i used Windows my favorite editor was PSPad and i'd like the powerfull line operations of it. When i switched to Ubuntu Linux i dicovered gEdit and in love with it. But i missed the nice code line features of PSPad and the old "Advanced Editing" plugin didn't give me all i like to have.
Today i visit the gEdit plugins page again and i found what i'm looking for the "Line Tools" plugin. This gEdit plugins brings you lovely features like:

* Trim Line : Removes the text from the current cursor position to the end of the line
* Clear Line : Removes all the text from the current line
* Kill Line : Completely removes the current line
* Duplicate Line : Creates a duplicate of the current line
* Raise Line : Moves the current line up while moving the line above it down by one line
* Lower Line : Moves the current line down while moving the line below it up by one line
* Copy Line : Copies the current line to the clipboard
* Cut Line : Copies the current line to the clipboard, then completely removes it
* Line Bookmarks : Set bookmarks at any line using Shift+Control+Number and then return to it later by pressing Control+Number

Very cool for coding. Thanks Shaddy!

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes and smaller improvements.

In my last posts i wrote about created gEdit plugins (here and here) and some nice command line utilities for web developers. Yesterday i found the blog of Micah Carrick which is the author of the Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin and of some very nice articles about web development with gEdit (here and here). Check it out!