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BlueGriffon EPUB Edition 1.7

BlueGriffon — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:47:00 +0200

I just released BlueGriffon EPUB v1.7 for all platforms. Purchasers of older versions can safely download and install it over their existing install, it will not reset profile or license credentials.

Note to Windows users: you may have to install the MSVC10 Redistributable Package since we moved to VC10. See the download page.

BlueGriffon 1.7

BlueGriffon — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:07:00 +0200

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.

Responsive Design editing in BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:22:00 +0200

Fixing a bug in cssproperties.js yesterday, I suddenly had an idea. Six hours of work later, I have a screencast to show you

BlueGriffon, BlueGriffon EPUB Edition and DOCX documents

BlueGriffon — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:22:00 +0100

So I started a while ago looking at the OpenOfficeXML specification (5000+ pages...) and, given the very low quality of the HTML export of Microsoft Word, decided to write some code to convert OOXML documents into clean HTML+CSS documents. It's far from ready but the basic architecture for my converter is now done and it already works for trivial documents. When it's ready (this is not for tomorrow, it's going to take some time...), the code will be integrated into BlueGriffon EPUB Edition and sold as an add-on to BlueGriffon.

Here is a little video I just made, you can also watch it on YouTube directly.

Mailchimp Email Templates

BlueGriffon — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:30:00 +0100

In january 2011, Mailchimp released under a CC license 37 html-based email templates that became hugely popular among newsletter authors. I am glad to report these 37 templates are now available through our One-Click Templates add-on to BlueGriffon. If you already purchased our add-on, you don't have to upgrade; just launch BlueGriffon and open the One-Click Templates Manager to see the new MailChimp Email Blueprints section with its 37 templates. /* Enjoy! */

One-Click Templates add-on

BlueGriffon — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:21:00 +0100

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

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition 1.6.1

BlueGriffon — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:24:00 +0100

We just released an update to our ebook editor, BlueGriffon EPUB Edition 1.6.1. Just install the new version over the previous one. If you have already purchased an earlier version of the app, your license credentials still apply and no change is needed. You should also have received by email an update to the User's Manual.

BlueGriffon is the only Wysiwyg cross-platform editor fully conformant to both EPUB2 and EPUB3.

Changelog from version 1.5.4:

all changes between BlueGriffon 1.5 and 1.6 when relevant
it's now possible to remove a file from a package, a much more complex task than it appears...
bugfixes in spine and landmarks management
the Snippets add-on is now builtin in the EPUB Edition

BlueGriffon 1.6 released

BlueGriffon — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:23:00 +0100

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

/* Enjoy! */

Towards BlueGriffon 1.6

BlueGriffon — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:34:00 +0100

BlueGriffon v1.6, even with a minor version number change, will in fact be quite a big change architecturally since all the floating panels of BlueGriffon become dockable. As a result, some add-ons will require an upgrade. Purchasers of older versions of the add-ons will soon receive a free upgrade offer by email. The add-ons store will also soon offer the new versions with a clear mention they strictly require BlueGriffon v >=1.6.

Localization teams of BlueGriffon, please verify your locale directory and commit or submit patches for all strings still in english. Thanks!

BlueGriffon progress 20121214

BlueGriffon — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:19:00 +0100

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

BlueGriffon progress 20121202

BlueGriffon — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:55:00 +0100

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

Resizing table columns and rows in BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:13:00 +0100

I have finished last night working on bug 469 implementing new resizing rules for table rows and columns. In short, it's now possible in BlueGriffon to click on the spaces between table rows and between table cells to resize the table rows and columns, just like in any other editor (finally.....). Bonus feature, if you resize columns pressing the shift key, the resulting widths will be in percents and not in pixels.

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BlueGriffon progress 20121125

BlueGriffon — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:46:00 +0100

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
new content patch to match m-c changes

QOTD

BlueGriffon — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:19:00 +0200

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:-)

Autocompletion in BlueGriffon's source view

BlueGriffon — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:52:00 +0200

I just landed a patch adding autocompletion for HTML tags, HTML attributes, values of HTML attributes, CSS properties and CSS values to BlueGriffon's source view. No JavaScript yet, stay tuned.

Free BlueGriffon add-on : Opquast Accessibility First Step

BlueGriffon — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:38:00 +0200

I have a free add-on for you BlueGriffon users : it's an automated accessibility checklist built by the wonderful Opquast people. I took their checklist, wrote the corresponding JS-based tests and turned the whole thing into an add-on. The add-on adds a new menu entry to the Tools menu. It works for the last focused document and it works for both Wysiswyg and Source views. Localized in english and french.

The add-on is available here. Please save it onto your hard disk and follow the installation instructions starting at step 3.

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition beta1

BlueGriffon — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:13:00 +0200

I have in front of me right now the beta 1 of BlueGriffon EPUB Edition. That beta is EPUB2-only, no EPUB3 yet. I am going to give that beta1 for tests purposes (blogging allowed, no embargo, redistribution of course forbidden) to a number of selected people in the coming days. Please don't ping me if you don't get an invite, the list of testers is already frozen.

cross-platform Windows, OS X and Linux
powered of course by Mozilla
no proprietary pivot format at all
creates *.epub, opens *.epub, edits *.pub, saves *.epub; of course including if the ebook was not created by BlueGriffon
Web standards compliant
based on BlueGriffon
allows UI-based editing of all metadata
allows UI-based editing of guide, spine and ncx

Let me clarify one detail in case you missed it: this product will not be Open Source and will be fully commercial. The changes to the files already present in the Web editor BlueGriffon (not the EPUB one) will of course be published to fully respect the MPL but will be quite useless since almost all the magic happens in new files.

You can already see a few recent screenshots at http://bluegriffon-epubedition.com (that's a carousel).

Stay tuned !

Update: I also posted a screenshot of BlueGriffon EPUB Edition editing a japanese version of the Qu'ran released as an EPUB2 ebook.

BlueGriffon 1.5.2 in Galician

BlueGriffon — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:28:00 +0200

I am really glad to report that thanks to the hard work done by Enrique Estévez, Galician is now enabled by default in BlueGriffon builds. 1.5.2 users can download and use the gl langpack following these steps:

download the langpack and save it onto your hard disk
launch BlueGriffon 1.5.2
open Tools > Add-ons
click on the Languages tab
click on the wheel button and select Install Add-on Fom File
select the langpack you saved above
click the Restart link, let BlueGriffon restart
open Preferences, switch to Advanced tab
check "Use installed locale", select Galician in the list
hit the "Use Language" button
let BlueGriffon restart and enjoy 1.5.2 in Galego!

BlueGriffon 1.5.2 released

BlueGriffon — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:58:00 +0200

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.

BlueGriffon 1.5

BlueGriffon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:03:00 +0200

BlueGriffon 1.5 went live a few hours ago. If you purchased BlueGriffon's User's Manual, watch your inbox, a download link for the revised version is waiting for you there. Purchasers of our CSS Pro Editor, our Silver Offer and our Platinum subscribers also received a download link to the new version of the CSS Pro Editor.