Linux for Designers

While it seem that the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project is dead, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. After the 4th alpha, now a first beta of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download.

New in 0.8 beta are:
* FTP support
* Syntax highlighting in split view
* Ability to edit text files
* Better PHP support on GNU/Linux
* New icon UUID

A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

UPDATE
The 0.8 beta of Kompozer is available as a deb package on GetDeb.net.

While there are no news updates since January of the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. A 4th alpha (which runs pretty stable) of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download. Kompozer 0.8 is focused on a new Mozilla core and the new UI displays more relevant information about the current HTML element: DOM tree, style properties, HTML code.
A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

How to get Kompozer 0.8 running:
* Make sure the package "xulrunner" is installed
* Download the Kompozer 0.8 binaries for Linux
* Extract the archive as root in "/opt/kompozer"
* Now create a new starter at your Gnome main menu or panel with command:
    "/opt/kompozer/kompozer".

End of last year i reported about a new version of the font editor FontForge that shipped with a X Resource editor to customize the (ugly) interface of FontForge. Now i started to create a smoother interface for Fontforge. Here is my first attempt:



If you know the ugly and fat look&feel of the standard interface you know that this first try is really smooth

You can download the theme here. To use it with FontForge go into the preferences and select the "fontforge-theme-area42" file as a "ResourceFile" at the option set "Generic".

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. FontForge will now use libpango (drawing opentype, anti-aliased text)/ libcairo(draw anti-aliased lines) if they are present. And again a lot of smaller improvements, bugfixes and translation updates.
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Besides the typical fixes and improvements there are now the possibilities:
* to set up an own pixmap path for icons
* importing images from PDF files
* basic support for alpha channels in images
* customizing colors of the metrics view
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of bugfixes and smaller improvements . Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port Hopefully this port didn't died.
A 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. All about Photoline 14.50 can be found in the release notes.

I'm working on the next version of SweeTS. This time i'm focused on new features like code operations (cleaning, formating etc.).
SweeTS is a development enviroment for TypoScript and a external TypoScript editor. TypoScript is the template language of the content management system (CMS) TYPO3.
Another question is how to structure a better code explorer. About that i started a poll at the Typo3 Forum.net.

Another month is over and so a new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. The big new thing in this release are "Layers". Read the change log for details.

With support for PDF 1.6/ 1.7, bugfixes and a Tango icon theme a new version of PDFedit is available.
You can grab a Deb archive at getdeb.net!