http://www.chocoflop.com CoreImage Based Image Editing Application for Mac OS X 10.4+ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/04/09/save-for-web-on-tiger-104-requires-x11/ - 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) ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/04/06/release-081-stability-text-and-quicklook/ Here we are with a sunday night release. Changes: Initialization fixes (creating images on mac mini doesn't seem to crash, for one) Web export now shows progress Web export now shows ideal numbers of colors (if under 256), with a button to set it as current Web export: more dithering modes available Some small visual ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/03/30/release-080-fixes-both-under-and-over-the-hood/ Here's a new update with a feature that's been missing for long: web export with live compression preview. All powered by the great command line tools ImageMagick and AdvComp. ChocoFlop still only works in true color but you can now export and get the smallest possible files. If you are ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/03/29/release-079-save-for-web/ So here's the easter release! No bunnies though but a few welcome improvements instead: Text can now be scaled correctly by dragging the handles. That makes it kinda usable (finally!) The color picker now displays a zoomed version in the lower left corner. Makes it easier to pick the color. Picking a color ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/03/24/release-078-text-scaling-and-a-better-picker/ Somehow the index.php file on this website was replaced by spam links. I am still investigating how this could have happened. This had happened already a few months ago but it was due to a flaw in the old wordpress 1.5.2 I was using. Now with the updated version I ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/03/21/miserably-hacked-again/ Here's a quick update. Sorry, it's already been two months since the last update. Time really flies. - Tablet pressure works again and looks better than before - Magic wand seems to be (finally?) stable now even if you click around like a mad man - Selection can be dragged while using the ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/02/14/release-076-face-the-pressure/ Today my old wordpress 1.5.x got hacked again and this website displayed lovely ads for the usual crap. So I finallly took some time to do the upgrade as it seems there is no support for older wordpress releases. The upgrade wasn't much work but I had some hardcoded things ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2008/01/03/updated-wordpress-to-23x-finally/ - Fixed a few deadlocks when working with selections - No more crashes on startup, especially when opening multiple documents at once (HUDwindow setframe) - Selection scanning should be slightly faster - Handles are now easier to grab - No more useless yellow lines unless creating a live gradient - Better window options on first ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2007/12/12/release-075-fixes-fixes-fixes/ - Zooming & panning around is now fast again with smaller images (no tiling when not necessary) - Tiling is now used *only* if it slows down too much and never when painting - Progress for rendering is updated more scarcely - FPS calculation now takes into account the amount of aborted ... http://www.chocoflop.com/2007/12/11/release-074-speed-fixes/