Tux Paint 0.9.17

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Version: 0.9.17, Size: 7.75 MB Report Broken
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Tux Paint 0.9.17 description
Tux Paint is a fun and easy to use drawing program for young children

Tux Paint is a free, fun drawing program built for young children (kids over the age of 3).

It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and anencouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use theprogram.

Tux Paint provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools tohelp your child be creative. Additional artwork ("stamps") can bedownloaded and installed, providing a sticker-book functionality.

Tux Paint has been translated into over 45 languages, and a graphicalconfiguration tool for parents and teachers is available which allowsTux Paint to be reconfigured to suit the special needs of children orthe classroom environment.

Here are some key features of "Tux Paint":

Multi-Platform
Works on Mac (Intel and PPC), Windows (Windows95 through Vista), Linux and other systems.
Simple Interface
A number of useful drawing tools are made available. (See Drawing Tools, below.)
The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn’.t need to worry about “.pixels”. or “.inches”. when making a new picture.
The entire program fits on a screen as small as 640480, and can bedisplayed full-screen, to hide the computer’.s underlying “.desktop”.interface. (It defaults to 800600 mode, but can run at larger sizesand in portrait or landscape mode, as well.)
Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so noknowledge of the underlying operating system’.s filesystem structure isneeded. Even filenames are unnecessary.
Entertaining Interface
Fun sound effects are played when tools are selected and used.
A cartoon version of Tux, the Linux penguin, appears at the bottom to give tips, hints and information.
Drawing Tools
Paint brush
Various brushes available
Parents/teachers can add more brushes
Brushes can be animated
Brushes can change shape depending on the direction they re drawn
Alternate color palettes can be created and used
Rubber stamp
Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available
Parents/teachers can add more stamps and create categories
Stamps can have descriptive text and sound samples (names, facts, etc.) and/or sound effects assigned to them
Stamps can be resized, flipped and mirrored
Raster bitmaps (Portable Network Graphics ("PNG")) with full-color and alpha transparency (32bpp RGBA) supported
Vector graphics (Scalable Vector Graphics ("SVG")) supported (Coming in version 0.9.17!)
Line tool
Uses Paint Brush’.s brushes
“.Rubberband”. shows where the line will be drawn as you move the mouse
Shape tool
Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes
Rotate shapes (this feature can be disabled for younger children)
Text tool
Comes with various fonts
Bold, italic and size can be changed
Parents/teachers can add more fonts
Supports numerous languages (See International Character Input, below)
“.Magic”. (special effects) tool
Fill –. “.flood-fill”. an area with a particular color
Grass –. paint realistic clumps of grass on the screen and into the distance
Bricks –. paint realistic large or small brick patterns
Rainbow brush –. draw using a brush that paints in all colors in the rainbow
Sparkles –. draw glowing yellow sparkles
Blur –. blur parts of the picture using the mouse
Smudge –. push the colors around as though smudging wet paint
Lighten –. fade the colors of parts of the picture
Darken –. darken the colors of parts of the picture
Chalk –. make parts of the picture look like a chalk drawing
Blocks –. turn parts of the picture “.blocky”.
Negative –. invert the colors of parts of the picture
Tint –. change the color of parts of the picture
Drip –. make parts of the picture look like it’.s dripping away
Cartoon –. make parts of the picture look like a cartoon
Mirror –. flip the image horizontally
Flip –. flip the image vertically
Eraser
Undo
Multiple levels of undo
Undo actions can themselves be undone with the “.Redo”. button
Commands
Save
Save a picture to the virtual “.picturebook”.
One-click save: No file browser dialogs or filename prompts are used
If saving an opened picture, choose to save over it (like “.Save”. indesktop programs), or save a new picture (like “.Save As”.)
Open
Open a previous drawing by selecting its thumbnail in a virtual “.picturebook”.
Delete previously-saved pictures
Slides
View a slideshow of multiple saved drawings
Control the speed of playback. create class presentations or simple looping animations
Go forward or back using the arrow keys or mouse
Starts
Various coloring-book-style images included
Photographic scenes included, with foreground and background elements that you draw in between
Print
Print pictures on a printer
International Character Input
Enter text in different languages using the Text tool:
Latin languages —. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
Japanese —. Romanized Hiragana and Romanized Katakana
Korean —. Hangul Bul-2
Parental and Teacher Controls
Run Tux Paint in full-screen mode, or have it “.grab”. the mousepointer, to prevent children from accidentally accessing other programsor files on the desktop.
Sound effects can be disabled.
The Print and Quit options can be disabled.
Alternatively, the Print option can be limited to allow only one print every n minutes.
Tux Paint cannot be launched more than once every 30 seconds, toprevent multiple copies from being run accidentally, due to over-eagermouse clicking.
The directory/folder where Tux Paint saves files may be changed. Thiscan be used to save pictures in a student’.s home directory on a networkdrive or shared drive, rather than locally on one particularworkstation.
Stamps, starters and brushes are stored using popular open formats(PNG, SVG, Ogg Vorbis, etc.) allowing parents and teachers to createtheir own content for use at home or in the classroom —. even usingcompletely free tools.
The “.Tux Paint Config.”. program allows parents, teachers, and schooltechnicians to alter Tux Paint’.s behaviour using a simple, easy-to-usegraphical interface. (It’.s separate from Tux Paint, to prevent childrenfrom changing things.)