BlueGriffon^TM

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!

• Create backup before saving a html file; b=401
• copy/paste made all URLs absolute; b=398
• activeview popup too transparent; b=372
• advanced preferences were horked
• html4 and html5 source views should not be closed without prompt, switch to DOMParser with text/html type; b=392
• Serbian (sr) localization enabled by default
• Link Insertion dialog added a mailto: to mail links even if already present; b=394
• better floating toolbar on linux
• comments, PHP and PI support; b=384
• negative margins were not allowed; b=383
• refine background-repeat UI; b=382
• CloseTab and CloseOtherTabs as context menu on tabs
• Revert as context menu on tabs; b=294

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"

• v1.4.1. released
• BlueGriffon is now able to deal with all charsets, previously only UTF-8; b=102
• new UI for formerly hidden pref bluegriffon.defaults.forceLF
• new UI for formerly hidden pref bluegriffon.inContext.enabled that became bluegriffon.floatingToolbar.enabled
• shorcut changes: new document (cmd-N => cmd-T), new window (cmd-N), new document with options (shift-cmd-N)
• cmd-W shortcut now closes the window if there are no more tabs to close

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

During 24 hours only starting right now, get a 25% rebate on BlueGriffon add-ons with coupon code MICHEL on www.bluegriffon.com.

You have no HTML+CSS knowlege or just not the will and energy to create a new document template yourself today? This add-on will be for you : create a document based on existing online free templates in one single click and start typing!

See the embedded video below for more details.

The missing Users's Manual for BlueGriffon... We finally have a one and it's available there !

I just released v1.4 of BlueGriffon, our wysiwyg content editor for the Web. There are major changes between 1.3.1 and this version and you'll find everything listed on BlueGriffon download page. /* Enjoy */