BlueGriffon^TM

I just released BlueGriffon 1.7 for Windows (XP, 7, 8), OS X (10.6 to 10.8) and Ubuntu (12.04 and 13.04, 32 and 64 bits). You can find it here.

Thanks to Jean-Pierre Reyt's heads up (and patience), I have identified a well hidden bug in the One-Click Templates add-on. It's related to the permissions of the temporary directory in which the add-on downloads and unzips a template. Weirdly, that bug did not happen in the past. I am currently working on a fix, stay tuned.

Update:fixed, email sent to all purchasers, bluegriffon.com updated

We just released BlueGriffon 1.6. The most important changes in the changelog below are the ones in bold:

• fixed too many LFs in stylesheet serialization
• fixed error in commandline handler
• CSS Properties panel was horked by switch to dockable panels
• page setup and print menus: b=500
• remove floating panel; b=498
• better inline editing (core patch)
• fixes in Find/Replace in source view
• font and color assignments in floating toolbar don't use css; b=482
• TOC update horked; b=440
• Save in source view should update iframe's oldSource; b=479
• dockable panels; b=478
• new pref for default file extensions on save; b=309
• TypeInState not shown in UI; b=471
• save from source view horked; b=473
• blockquote button; b=472
• xhtml 1.1; b=404
• aria role dropdown always looking for block; b=430
• only UTF-8 in xhtml5; b=430
• updates on a daily basis don't work; b=436
• add skip-this-version to updates; b=415
• edit a page directly from a link; b=457
• get rid of align attribute; b=464
• revert shuffles tab order; b=466
• bad serialization for embedded stylesheets; b=467
• selected line in dark source themes unreadable; b=445
• Add an 'Open File' menu; b=470
• Better table row and column resizers; b=469
• switch to final CSS gradient syntax; b=463
• languages dialog horked on cancel; b=439
• add toggle view command; b=426, patch by Yu Tang
• IDs appear twice in link insertion dialog; b=422

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Hi BlueGriffon Team,

I would like to inform you that your company is chosen as to receive the “Best Web Tool 2012” award. We applaud your great products/services that truly make websites better.

Stay tuned for more information soon:-)

• fixed (regression from BMO bug 669026 handled in bug 757368): editor loses focus using arrow keys if a panel is opened and contains a focusable element
• L10N errors
• one minor error in the CSS Properties Panel

Available here, as usual.

If everything goes well, BlueGriffon 1.5 will be released friday 27 april. There are still localization holes, in particular for the following locales:

• he (Hebrew): severe lag
• fi (Finnish): only last changes missing
• it (Italian): only last changes missing
• hu (Hungarian): DONE 20120417
  
• ja (Japanese): severe lag
• ko (Korean): severe lag
• nl (Dutch): severe lag
• pl (Polish): DONE 20120413
• sl (Slovenian): light lag

If you can help us here in order to have these locales completed for the 24th of april, you're highly welcome. Please see our localization manual and then the list of recent L10N changes. Warning, that list contains only the recent changes. Locales severely lagging require more changes than what's contained in this list. Thanks!

Thanks to Ivan Starčević (Иван Старчевић) and Snežana Lukić (Снежана Лукић), we now have a fully functional Serbian language pack for BlueGriffon 1.4.1!

1. right-click on this link and save the file on your hard disk
2. launch BlueGriffon
3. open Tools > Add-ons
4. Use the top-right button to Install Add-on from File and select the file you saved on your disk
5. restart BlueGriffon
6. open BlueGriffon's Preferences, select Advanced Tab, select "Use installed locale", select "sr (Serbia)"
7. click on the "Use language button"

First book published on BlueGriffon! And it's in japanese! Wooohooo!!!! Don't forget the complete User's Manual in english!

I'm currently ironing the v2.0 of our One-Click Templates add-on to BlueGriffon. First version of that add-on is already a best-seller and I think you're going to like v2.0. Main changes are:

• nearly 3,000 (yes, three thousand) free HTML+CSS templates!
• you can now create your own One-Click Templates from any document of yours

So here's a static demo for you, click on the images to see a larger version.

First let's have a web document created inside BlueGriffon. For instance a blank page for the BlueGriffon web site:

We are going to turn that document - and all the objects linked to it (stylesheets, replaced elements, fonts) - into a personal template through the File > Save as Template menu entry:

The dialog it opens offers first to select where you want your templates and the associated database to be stored, and then set a few metadata for your template (mandatory unique name, description, license):

Once all choices are made, the dialog looks like:

And we only have to click on the Save button to create our template's package. Once it's done, the package's file is revealed by the OS. Please note the sqlite database for easier access to templates' metadata. All URLs inside our document or inside the associated stylesheets (including imported stylesheets, whatever the nesting level) are rewritten for cleaner packaging.

Now let's close our original document and use our new personal template. To do that, use the File > One-Click Templates menu entry

That opens the Template Manager. In the current version, 2864 free templates are available!

Just for fun, let's look at the templates proposed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 by freecsstemplates.org:

For each template, we have a thumbnail, a description if one is available, a license, an author, a button linking to a live demo if one is available and a button to select that template to create a new document. If a large preview image is available, clicking on the thumbnail will show it. Hitting the Select button to use the template requires only one last operation from you: you must provide a file name for your new document... Let's go back now to our personal templates, and here's the one we just created:

So let's create a new document based on our personal template. As I said earlier, I only have to provide a file name:

I'm all set. My new document is here. Wherever were the original files on my hard disk, I now have a "blank" document based on a template well packaged, all media files living together, all stylesheets living together, all fonts living together, all scripts living together for a greater maintainability.

Every time you'll use the File > Save as Template menu entry, it will remind you the location of the directory where your personal templates live in. Backing them up is then trivial and giving them to someone else is also trivial. Just give that person a copy of your templates directory...

This v2.0 is going live soon, don't miss it!

Update: images updated so they don't harm planet.mozilla.org