Archive for April, 2008

“Save for web” on Tiger (10.4) requires X11 :-( 8

Oops, I just realized (merci françois) that ImageMagick, which is required for the save for web feature actually requires X11 to be installed. It is installed by default on Leopard but not on Tiger.

So if you are running Tiger and ChocoFlop always answers “This doesn’t seem to be a valid ImageMagick folder :-(” you just need to install X11. It’s on your Tiger install DVD. Apple didn’t find it useful to post it on the web.

In the next release I’ll make the error message clearer.

Release 0.81 - Stability, text and QuickLook 0

chocoflop quicklook

- Text edition doesn’t crash anymore and should be faster altogether
- Fixes a HUGE memory problem with previous version when updating text
- Overlay HUD window has correct position on start and resizes correctly
- Text layers keep ‘autolabel’ attribute when duplicated
- Select by color min-preview isn’t draggable (out of viewable area) anymore
- Save for web: preview window limit panning in a correct way (fixes problems when image is slightly smaller than view)
- Save for web: return key hits the ’save’ button
- dcRaw export menu works again (messed it up in the previous release and it called ’save for web’).
- If you have ImageMagick installed with MacPorts it should work (without having to download a separate package). I couldn’t test it though (I get a wrong library error, but I don’t know much about macports).
- Native documents are now saved with appropriate QuickLook preview and thumbnail files (you have to resave your existing documents obviously). Flat.tiff has dissapeared and was replaced by QuickLook/Preview.tiff

That’s it, please update, enjoy and report bugs!.

PS: Despite the fact that the screenshot used as an example for QuickLook uses an image from Agony, an Amiga game famous for its then groundbreaking graphics, ChocoFlop does not yet support HalfBrite mode. But you can reduce your image colors to 64. I just don’t guarantee that the last 32 colors in the palette will have values that are exactly half the values in the first 32 :-)