Christian Jorgensen
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Take the following scenario: I create a design and save it as an artx file. Then I export it as a Joomla 2.5/3.0 template which I install on my homepage. Seeing the result, I want to apply some adjustments, for example the height of buttons or the distance between lines in texts. I make the changes in the css file (using firefox to find where to place the changes). I now have two designs, the corrected design (the design I need) in my homepage and the design with errors in Artisteer. How do I capture the corrected design in Artisteer? I find a possibility to import an artx file into Artisteer. Can I ‘un-export’ the Joomla template back to an artx file? A potential alternative (and longer) way could be to go back into Artisteer and apply the same changes there as I applied in the css file in the template. However, I cannot in Artisteer see, for example, how high in pixels a button is, and I cannot see the line distance of a text.
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Jeff
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Since you edited the CSS, all you need to do is add the CSS edits to Artisteer in the export options.
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Christian Jorgensen
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Jeff, thanks. Now, how do I add the CSS edits to Artisteer? Sorry, I am new to Artisteer (but experienced with css). I did the design in Artisteer and saved it, and the result was a 'gamrupa.artx' file (because I named it so.) Subsequently I exported the design as a Joomla template, and the result was a 'gamrupa.zip' file that, when unpacked, included, among others, the css files. I am not able to open the artx file in a manner where I can see what it contains,but obviously it contains, among others, the instructions that subsequently generates the css file in the Joomla template. As said, I subsequently edited the Joomla css file. What I now want is to alter the gamrupa.artx file, so that it gets to include the css edits, in other words so that, if I export it it anew as a Joomla template, the new Joomla template will include a css code that includes the edits I did.
Put it another way, by exporting the artisteer design as a Joomla template I converted, I presume, the artx file into a Joomla template zip file. Now I need to go the other way: if I zip the Joomla template with my edits, how can I convert this to an artx file?
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Christian Jorgensen
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......or, put it another way: Is there a way that I can see what css instructions the artx file includes? And can I edit these css instructions?
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Jeff
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When you export the template for Joomla, click on the Options button. Select the CSS and add it there.
Jeff
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Jeff
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I don't know of a way to directly see/edit the CSS in Artisteer.
Jeff
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Christian Jorgensen
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Jeff, thanks again, now I understand what you mean. In order to get a Joomla template that includes the css adjustments I have made I use the original artx file and in the options I add css code.
But I keep failing to explain, what my question is. What I want is an artx file that includes the css changes I have made (and any changes to the index.php file). With such an artx file I would be able directly to export to Joomla and get the Joomla template I want. If I make further changes to this template and then change the artx file to include these changes, next time I export to Joomla I will get a Joomla template that includes also these latest changes. In the same manner as if you have a word document that you change and save the changes, next time you open the word document it will include these changes.
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Raymee
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Unfortunately it is not possible to import changes made outside of artisteer. I would think most of us use firebug on exported sites to identify required changes and then make these within artisteer itself - before exporting again.
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John
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I do what Raymee has suggested, if I make any changes outside, I copy them into the CSS option in Artisteer and reproduce there and then (so the Artisteer file is always up to date).
In fact it is quite handy doing it this way, as you can account for other software (such as sticking in custom virtuemart css in the template artx file), although this is also a bit of hassle I guess as you have to edit it live and keep Artisteer open remembering to add any adjustments there (using firebug is tremendously helpful in allowing you to live edit a site temporarily).
Might not be a bad suggestion for the future though, if Artisteer could unpack a template zip file, import it all and then you could edit it from there, well, that would be good for Artisteer, but probably terrible for web designers (as it could then in theory easily import other professional templates for you to adjust and build on...)
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Christian Jorgensen
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Raimee, thank you for a clear response to my question: It is not possible to import changes made outside of artisteer. That settles it for now.
John, how does one communicate to the Artisteer organisation the proposal, in the future, to allow template files to be imported into Artisteer?
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Peter
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Quote Christian Jorgensen:John, how does one communicate to the Artisteer organisation the proposal, in the future, to allow template files to be imported into Artisteer?
Won't happen. The main reason being that it's a part of the anti-piracy protection. People will be able to export and just import again to circumvent the system they use now.
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