{"id":1544,"date":"2007-09-10T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/acorn-10\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:31:46","slug":"acorn-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/acorn-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/acorn\/\">Acorn<\/a> is a simple new bitmap editor from <a href=\"http:\/\/gusmueller.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/acorn_1.0.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/gusmueller.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/starting_up_the_hype_machine.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>) with built-in screenshot-taking (using a resizable crop box), vector and text layers, gradients, and Core Image filters. Best of all: support for <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/acorn\/plugin.shtml\">plug-ins written in PyObjC<\/a>. A single Tools window combines tools, tools options, layers, and status info&mdash;an unusual design that, I think, works. Acorn seems to have a bunch of 1.0 bugs and drawing glitches, but it looks promising. I&rsquo;m primed to switch <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/pixelmator\/\">from GraphicConverter<\/a> to something with a more modern interface. I&rsquo;d like to see an export window with quality previews. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/7.12\/bosco.shtml\">Foto Trimmer<\/a>&#8211;style crop controls would rock.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn is a simple new bitmap editor from Gus Mueller (and Gus Mueller) with built-in screenshot-taking (using a resizable crop box), vector and text layers, gradients, and Core Image filters. Best of all: support for plug-ins written in PyObjC. A single Tools window combines tools, tools options, layers, and status info&mdash;an unusual design that, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}