Vibrant Ink theme for Eclipse based IDEs

After my hugely successful Vibrant Ink theme port for Komodo IDE, NotePad++ and Visual Studio, it’s time to go for Eclipse based IDEs. Please follow the instructions carefully to have Vibrant Ink theme readied for your Eclipse based IDEs like Eclipse 3 or greater, Aptana, Flex Builder, Zend Studio, etc.

1. Download the Zip file that contains all the files explained here.
2. Download and Install the Monaco font for Windows.
3. Extract the Zip file to Desktop or your convenient Location
4. Start your Eclipse based IDE
5. Choose Window -> Preferences
6. Choose General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
7. Expand Basic and choose Text font under that. Click on Change button from right side, choose the Monaco font and choose size as 9pt
8. Choose General / Your IDE Name / Your Plugin page for the specific Language
9. Expand the Editors under the above said group and look for the CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, PHPDoc and ScriptDoc options.
10. In the extracted files you’ll see .col files for all the above specified languages.
11. Under the language group, select Colors and choose Import from the right side. Choose the appropriate .col file from the extracted location.
12. Click Apply and Close Preferences by clicking on OK. Close all open files and reopen them to see it in cool Vibrant Ink theme.

So far I’ve created theme for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, PHPDoc and ScriptDoc only. If you have an Eclipse based IDE that you’re using for any other languages (like Ruby, Python etc), please request here so that I can send you over the color files for the same.