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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "web"

Flash SWF Export for GIMP with Animation Support

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP again. This time i added animation support. Any layer of an GIMP image will be exported as a frame of an Flash SWF animation (not a Flash Video FLV).
Later i will add support for Windows too.

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Gimp Flash SWF Exporter Update

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP. Now it can generate the XHTML page where the exported flash is embeded.

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Flash SWF Export for GIMP

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For image conversion and an easy way keeping the content of our lastest Flash project up to date i wrote today an Flash SWF Export Script for Gimp.

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40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs

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This is another sweet goody of the Smashing Magazine. They collected 40 really nice illustrations in web designs.

Web and Design Trends 2009

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A new year start and the web is filled up with forecsts about web and design trends in 2009. Here is a short overview:
* T3N Web Trends 2009
* Smashing Magazin: Web Design Trends For 2009
* Open Source Technology: 2008-2009 Web Trends - WEB 3.0
* Baekdal: Web Trends 2009
* Independent.ie: Tech Trends 2009
* Just Creative Design: Logo Design Trends 2009

Gimp CSSdev 0.5

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After posting a little sneak peak of CSSdev, now i uploaded the final. If you using Gimp 2.5.x you will love this release:
* Now text layers will be exported with additional css styles and it's content
(Gimp 2.5.x is required)
* Layer could now automaticly coped to their content on export
* all changes of CSSdev during the export are grouped to on und step
* Added support for Redhat's Liberation Fonts



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CSSdev 0.5 sneak

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Whoo-hoo Gimp 2.5.1 rocks and is a real good graphical source for CSSdev. Here is a little sneak preview of the layered image in Gimp 2.5.1 and the output off CSSdev 0.5 (just CSS and XHTML, noch graphics, no joke, no recoding after):

Those haven't Gimp 2.5.x running yet grab a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 or Gimp 2.5.1 now.

CSSdev for Gimp 0.4 update

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I'm on it to make the first version of CSSdev really feature rich in its basic features. In 0.4 i added support for font style and font weight for the default font (and later it can be used for text layers too).

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CSSdev for Gimp 0.3

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This is a small bugfix release of CSSdev for GIMP, clipping works now perfect and non-webfonts as the default font gets alternative font faces too.
After getting a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 and an update to Gimp 2.5.1 i figured out new possibilities in the upcoming Gimp version. So in future i can support text layers well - that will make CSSdev much more awesome :smile:

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Vote for your favorite design app!

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Have you visited Hackontest and voted for your favorite design app and the most lovely ideas? If not do it now!

I'm not alone :)

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It is nice to see that this blog isn't the only one about open source and design. A friend droped me the url of Open Source Publishing - Design Tools For Designers - check it out its interesting!

Hand Draw'n Styled Webdesign

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Another inspiring part of Smashing Magazine: Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design. The first part of it can be found here.
For those that stayed more on layouts and print check out the article Beautiful Brochures and Booklets.

CSSdev update

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Who-Hoo i get - CSSdev now supports the CSS property "clip" using Gimp layer masks. This was hard to code to make it working with white or black masks - but it works :smile:

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CSSdev for Gimp

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So here comes my announced and awaited script "CSSdev for Gimp" that is a remastered and more feature rich Python implementation of the old and buggy Gimp2CSS. After a hacking session at area42 this is a first cool working version was available. Meanwhile i updated this script various times and added more features. The major goals for the future are adding support for floating design and nested layers.

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Powerfull web development with Eclipse

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If you like to use Eclipse for web development you should definetly try out Aptana Studio Community Edition. Aptana Studio Community Edition is really amazing and adds so much nice and cool features to Eclipse:
* A normal file tree
* FTP support
* AJAX development
* Validation
* Help and references
* additional plugins for Ruby, Adobe AIR and Php
A howto to add Aptana to your existing Eclipse is available too.
If you haven't Eclipse installed yet take as a base the Php Developer Tools (PDT).

39 Creative designs

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Another delicious selection of the Smashing Magazine:
39 Creative Flash Designs
Whatever they made of, they are nice.

Drupal 6 is out

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After one year of development Drupal, one of the big open source content management systems, are out as 6.0:
* Support for OpenID
* more speed
* more translation
* totally CSS driven
* usability improvements
* security and maintainability advancements

If you like to check it out online visit OpenSourceCMS. There you can text the new Joomla 1.5 too.

DrupalCon Boston 2008

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After last year the conference of the content management system Drupal, the DrupalCon, took place in Spain, this year the Drupal Association announced it for 2008 in Boston.

Beta 1 of Drupal 6

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The first Beta of Drupal, one of the big open source content management systems, is released for testing. Anything about it is here.

DrupalCon Barcelona 2007

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Just some days up to the DrupalCon Barcelona 2007.
If you are a developer or using the content management system Drupal check out the schedule table.