BlueGriffonTM

The next-generation Web Editor
based on the rendering engine of Firefox

15Nov 2011

Help localizing BlueGriffon 1.3 in Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Chinese (TW)

I guess the title says it all. If you speak and write Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian or Chinese (TW), we need your help. See this document for more details.

14Nov 2011

Our next add-on...

Our next BlueGriffon add-on will be a Mobile Previewer... You'll be able to check if your layout (fluid, responsive or whatever) beautifully fits on a small screen, a medium screen or even a gigantic screen. CSS Media Queries and Meta Viewport supported.

Mobile Previewer screenshot

12Oct 2011

Shortcut customization in BlueGriffon

This is a short html5 video (with sound) of me customizing one menubar and one toolbar shortcut in forthcoming BlueGriffon 1.3 :-)


11Oct 2011

A present for Charles McCathieNevile

Charles McCathieNevile (aka chaals, Chief Standards Officer of Opera) pinged me a while ago because he wanted to create his own keyboard shortcuts inside BlueGriffon. As far as I know, such a feature is extremely rare in the Mozilla xulrunner-based world. But I agreed it was a legitimate request in an editing environment...

I'm almost done. There will in version 1.3 of BlueGriffon a new preference panel allowing to tweak all keyboard shortcuts, add a shortcut to a menu item or toolbar item having no shortcut yet, delete an existing shortcut. On Mac, it's a bit more complex than on Windows and Linux because of the hidden window and the OS X-managed toolbar. But it already works.

I have to iron a bit things, handle persistency across sessions (a non issue, really), localize properly all strings and messages through entities and properties and it will hit a subversion repository near you. Possibly a first in the Mozilla world.

Now chaals, happy ? :-)

Keyboard Shortcuts panel in Preferences window

07Oct 2011

BlueGriffon and Asian Text #2

BlueGriffon bug 173 is now fixed :-)

05Oct 2011

BlueGriffon and Asian Text

I'm currently working on the content serializer of Gecko and the layer living above it in BlueGriffon to solve a big issue Asian text authors have with BlueGriffon: the current version wraps the contents of the source view by default, something that is not acceptable for some asian writing scripts. I'm almost done and it's about to land on the trunk. The new Preferences panel will show:

New preferences for auto-indent and wrapping in Source View

For the time being, the languages exclusion pref looks at the document's language. I am currently hacking the serializer to let it use that preference on a per-element basis, meaning you will be able to wrap the source of a document in english letting for instance the japanese prose (tagged as such with a lang or xml:lang attribute) unwrapped :-)

04Oct 2011

BlueGriffon 1.2.1 for Fedora 15

Official build of BlueGriffon 1.2.1 now available in rpm form for Fedora 15.

30Sep 2011

BlueGriffon 1.2.1...

I unfortunately have to release a version 1.2.1 of BlueGriffon because of BMO bug 690699, a blocker for the Add-on Manager already hit and reported by some BlueGriffon users... It's now available from our Downloads page. Please upgrade to 1.2.1 as soon as possible.

29Sep 2011

BlueGriffon 1.2

Reminder: BlueGriffon is Open Source, and available free of charge. If you want to support BlueGriffon, please buy our add-ons!

OS Version
Languages Links
Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7
Intel 32/64bits Czech
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Simp.Chinese
Trad.Chinese
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
download dmg
Windows XP, 7, 8

download installer
download ZIP Warning, you may have to install this (thanks Windows...)
if you hit an error launching BlueGriffon
Linux Ubuntu 10.04 32bits download installer (set permissions and run to install)
download tar.bz2
Linux Ubuntu 10.10 64bits download installer (set permissions and run to install)
download tar.bz2




langpacks




free add-ons and spellcheck dictionaries




MD5 CHECKSUMS

Warning: you may have to delete your BlueGriffon profile if you installed and used pre-1.0 versions of the editor or if you have trouble changing the language of the interface. You will have to re-install your add-ons after that.

  • on Mac OS X: delete ~/Library/Application\ Support/BlueGriffon
  • on Windows XP: delete c:\Documents and Settings\yourlogin\Application Data\Disruptive Innovations SARL
  • on Windows 7: delete c:\Users\yourlogin\AppData\Roaming\Disruptive Innovations SARL
  • on Linux: delete ~/.disruptive\ innovations\ sarl

Changelog:

  • better handling of floating panels on linux
  • Style transaction was not incrementing editor's modif counter; b=280
  • Finnish, Polish, Slovenian and Swedish locales
  • changes to the color picker for the EyeDropper add-on
  • ReplaceAll was horked in Source View; b=273
  • data mismatch in <select> manager
  • don't delete empty DIVs added to source view; b=261
  • language setting in page properties dialog does not trigger a txn; b=197
  • support for Writing Direction context menu in the Structure Bar; b=254
  • CR/LF issues; b=248
  • target attribute in Link dialog; b=239
  • better reset of the transaction manager in Ace
  • autocompletion in source view for HTML tag names; b=263
  • don't close SVG Edit if transaction manager not empty; b=234
  • Table of Contents
  • Add support for text-overflow; b=240
  • missing localized strings in updater's alerts
  • remove a caption from languages.xul; b=170
  • implement amaya-style kbd shortcuts for element navigation; b=224
  • new content patch to allow F2/F4 in menu item accelerators on Mac OS X
  • List Properties dialog
  • changetag in structurebar horked; b=238
  • Structure toolbar puts a checked=true attribute on elements; b=237
  • show document's styles for links; b=236
  • Adding a new dictionary in the spell-checking-dialog doesn't work; b=173
  • new css files can live w/o a .css extension; b=193
  • ability to delete external browser settings in the prefs window; b=225
  • make the tree nice to OS/2; contribution by Dave Yeo; b=235

26Sep 2011

1.2

ETA for BlueGriffon 1.2: before the end of this week :-)

16Sep 2011

Help localizing BlueGriffon

Version 1.2 of BlueGriffon is in sight but a few locales still miss some light updates. If you think you can help, please take a look at the table below. You can submit your translation of the missing strings by email to info AT disruptive DASH innovations DOT com or attach patches to the bugzilla bugs (click on the locale name in the table). Reminder: please use UTF-8 !!!

Thanks !

Spanish (es-ES)
insertLink.dtd
insertTOC.dtd
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
update.properties
advanced.properties
bluegriffon.dtd
listProperties.dtd
svg-edit.properties
Japanese (ja-JP)
insertLink.dtd
insertTOC.dtd
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
update.properties
advanced.properties
bluegriffon.dtd
listProperties.dtd
svg-edit.properties
Korean (ko)
insertLink.dtd
insertTOC.dtd
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
update.properties
advanced.properties
bluegriffon.dtd
listProperties.dtd
svg-edit.properties
Dutch (nl)
insertLink.dtd
insertTOC.dtd
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
update.properties
advanced.properties
bluegriffon.dtd
listProperties.dtd
svg-edit.properties
Slovenian (sl)
insertLink.dtd
insertTOC.dtd
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
update.properties
advanced.properties
bluegriffon.dtd
listProperties.dtd
svg-edit.properties
Hebrew (he-IL)
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
Chinese (zh-TW)
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)
Italian (it-IT)
cssProperties.dtd (textOverflow.label, clipTextOverflow.label, ellipsisTextOverflow.label unicodeBidi.label)

15Sep 2011

EyeDropper add-on

Web developers like ColorZilla. ColorZilla is great, really great. But it has one issue: it's able to pick a color only inside the browser window, not anywhere on the screen or even the multiple screens you have. Since designers work with multiple types of sources, it is often necessary to get a color from outside the browser window and in that case ColorZilla can't help...

I was not really fond of writing a ColorZilla-like add-on for BlueGriffon myself since Mac OS X has /Applications/Utilities/DigitalColor\ Meter.app and my primary platform is OS X... But then I got an interesting message from a BlueGriffon user containing good, even very good I must say, arguments in favor of such an add-on. So I spent a few hours (roughly three) on it and here is the result. Honestly I already like it. It's not ironed yet and works only on OS X for the time being but the screenshot below will show you the best part of it : it works anywhere on all screens attached to your computer (see the crosshair cursor in the BlueGriffonEpubEdition icon on OS X desktop) ...

EyeDropper add-on

I think I can also make it work on Windows and Linux. And of course, it will be well integrated with the colorpicker in BlueGriffon. Stay tuned :-)

Update: the add-on now adds a new EyeDropper button to the color picker and is fully functional on OS X, Linux and Windows. Yay ! Will be released with forthcoming BlueGriffon 1.2.

02Aug 2011

Progress 20110802

  • language setting in page properties dialog does not trigger a txn; b=197
  • support for Writing Direction context menu in the Structure Bar; b=254
  • CR/LF issues; b=248
  • target attribute in Link dialog; b=239
  • better reset of the transaction manager in Ace
  • autocompletion in source view for HTML tag names; b=263
  • pl locale by Stefan Plewako
  • don't close SVG Edit if transaction manager not empty; b=234
  • Table of Contents
  • Add support for text-overflow; b=240
  • missing localized strings in updater's alerts
  • remove a caption from languages.xul; b=170
  • implement amaya-style kbd shortcuts for element navigation; b=224
  • new content patch to allow F2/F4 in menu item accelerators on Mac OS X
  • List Properties dialog
  • changetag in structurebar horked; b=238
  • Structure toolbar puts a checked=true attribute on elements; b=237
  • show document's styles for links; b=236
  • Adding a new dictionary in the spell-checking-dialog doesn't work; b=173
  • new css files can live w/o a .css extension; b=193
  • ability to delete external browser settings in the prefs window; b=225
  • make the tree nice to OS/2; contribution by Dave Yeo; b=235

29Jul 2011

Autocompletion in Source View

Yay! BlueGriffon now has basic autocompletion for all HTML5 tag names in its Source View (revision 767). Click on the thumbnail below to see a larger image.

Autocompletion in source view

26Jul 2011

Autocompletion in source view

I am now working on basic autocompletion (tags only for the beginning) in BlueGriffon's source view. Should be in v1.2 if it's stable enough.

07Jul 2011

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition, progress

Just for your information, BlueGriffon EPUB Edition will create/edit/save not only EPUB 2 ebooks but also EPUB 3 ebooks... :-)

05Jul 2011

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition

Our wysiwyg HTML/CSS/SVG/MathML editor Bluegriffon will have a sibling!

Our company Disruptive Innovations together with friend Innovimax will release in a near future a new native EPUB wysiwyg editor on the market, BlueGriffon EPUB Edition. It will be commercial, standalone (ie not a webapp), based on the open-source BlueGriffon. Unlike most existing solutions on the market, it will not rely on a private pivot format. While most other tools can only do "Export to EPUB", BlueGriffon EPUB Edition will open EPUBs, create EPUBs, save EPUBs. Do whatever you want with the metadata or the contents. Add, modify or remove documents, images, stylesheets, media files, fonts, everything. It will be simple, powerful, and strictly conformant to W3C and IDPF standards.

As you can judge from the screenshot below, we're moving fast... Stay tuned!

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition screenshot
(click to enlarge)

14Jun 2011

BlueGriffon 1.1.1 for OS/2 !

All OS/2 lovers praise Dave Yeo for his BlueGriffon 1.1.1 for OS/2!

12Jun 2011

Free add-ons for BlueGriffon 1.1.1

The title says it all. They are here.

10Jun 2011

BlueGriffon 1.1.1

Because of bmo bug 662770 harming the CSS Pro Editor on Linux, we have to release a v1.1.1 with a workaround.

Reminder: BlueGriffon is Open Source, and available free of charge. If you want to support BlueGriffon, please buy our add-ons!

OS Version
Languages Links
Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7
Intel 32/64bits Czech
Dutch
English
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simp.Chinese
Trad.Chinese
Spanish
download dmg
Windows XP, 7
download installer
download ZIP
Warning, you may have to install this (thanks Windows...)
if you hit an error launching BlueGriffon
Linux Ubuntu 10.04 32bits download installer (set permissions and run to install)
download tar.bz2
Linux Ubuntu 10.10 64bits download installer (set permissions and run to install)
download tar.bz2




langpacks




MD5 CHECKSUMS

Warning: you may have to delete your BlueGriffon profile if you installed and used pre-1.0 versions of the editor or if you have trouble changing the language of the interface. You will have to re-install your add-ons after that.

  • on Mac OS X: delete ~/Library/Application\ Support/BlueGriffon
  • on Windows XP: delete c:\Documents and Settings\yourlogin\Application Data\Disruptive Innovations SARL
  • on Windows 7: delete c:\Users\yourlogin\AppData\Roaming\Disruptive Innovations SARL
  • on Linux: delete ~/.disruptive\ innovations\ sarl

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