fp2 update – screens
April 5th, 2009
Things are still moving along with fp2 development. Here’s some new screens showing the editor, image bank and spread planner.
Above – The editor, shown with text properties panel
Above – Image bank, will allow uploading from your hard drive or from a URL
Above – Spread planner, the focus of projects will be shifted more onto the spread planner than before. User’s will navigate to this first after opening a project to choose which pages to edit.
fp2 dev
February 22nd, 2009
This weekend has seen the beginning of adding the new skin to the editor. To wet your appetite here’s a couple of screen grabs. As you can see from the above screen things are a lot more streamlined compared to the existing editor.
Even with this minimal interface, you will be able to access all the new features. There is now a direct import for YouTube videos to be placed into your projects which will allow you to scale, rotate and resize them, something the current editor does not support.
As every, you can follow the up-to-date in’s and out’s on the FP2 Dev twitter at: www.twitter.com/fp2dev/
More screen grabs will be posted as things more on!
codename fp2
February 2nd, 2009
This is the first post hopefully of many which we will use to keep you posted on how the brand new version of formatpixel is going. We will refer to it as fp2, it’s dev name, but as we have been building we are realising that it’s becoming a very different tool to what formatpixel has been. As such we are considering launching fp2 as a sister site rather than an update for formatpixel’s current system.
We’ve been developing fp2 for a while now and started from scratch. Every part and feature is being built from the ground up. Already we have addressed some of your comments about fonts and are pleased to tell you that fp2 will support multi-fonts. Also the ability to rotate any object. All this is done through an enhanced user tools. Another new feature is to allow each page to be different sizes within the same project. This means you could start with a square page, then move on to a rectangle and so on.
If you would like to be considered as a beta tester then please let us know either through this blog or contact us at team[at]formatpixel.com with the subject line ‘fp2 beta’.
To all existing users of formatpixel, the new release will be available to you all without the need of re-register 
above: early screen shot showing customisable backgrounds!
So there you have it, our first post about what we are up to! We know that it’s been a while with any sort of update and we have been banging on about a new version so we hope this post will show you that things are moving along