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TuxPaint - Drawing program for young children

Tux Paint is a simple, easy-to-use drawing program for children ages 2 and up. It provides a fixed canvas size, one-click saving and thumbnail-based browsing and loading. Large icons, simple labels and prompts, and the ability to display only uppercase characters and disable features like printing, quitting, and certain prompts make it easy for very young children and the disabled.

Tools include a paintbrush, lines, shapes, text too, a large eraser, a rubber stamp tool with dozens of pre-drawn and photographic images, and a collection of "magic" special effects tools. Multiple levels of undo and redo are available. A cartoon version of "Tux," the Linux penguin helps explain what's going on. Additional stamps, fonts and brushes can be added easily.

Tux Paint has been translated into nearly 20 languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and British English.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
Source tarball	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tuxpaint/tuxpaint-0.9.11.tar.gz
Source information	http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/

Version 0.9.11 (stable) released on 2003-06-18

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ and README included

Support contacts

Announce News	comp.os.linux.announce
Developer List	<tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Bill Kendrick <bill@newbreedsoftware.com>
Developers	Bill Kendrick <bill@newbreedsoftware.com>
Contributors	Sam Hart <criswell@geekcomix.net> Peter Sterba <sterba@sterba.com> Martin <barin@email.cz> Rasmus Erik Voel Jensen <i18n@solsort.dk> Herman Bruyninckx <herman.bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> Tarmo Toikkanen <tarmo.toikkanen@iki.fi> Jacques Chion <jacques.chion@wanadoo.fr> Charles Vidal <vidalc@club-internet.fr> Fabian Franz <fabianfranz@gmx.de> Pjetur G. Hjaltason <pjetur@pjetur.net> Marco Milanesi <kpanic@pavia.linux.it> Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org> Gabriel Gazzan <ggabriel@internet.com.uy> Daniel Andersson <daniel@septum.org> Doruk Fisek <dfisek@fisek.com.tr> John Popplewell <john@johnnypops.demon.co.uk> Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at> Trk Gbor <gabo@linuxmania.hu> Daniel Jos Viana <danjovic@vespanet.com.br>
Sponsors	Tux4Kids <http://www.tux4kids.org/>

Related information

Interfaces	X Window System
Programs	tuxpaint, tuxpaint-import
Source languages	C
Use requirements	libSDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, FreeType, libPNG, gettext
Build prerequisites	libSDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, FreeType, libPNG, gettext
Weak prerequisites	SDL_mixer
Related programs	GIMP, xpaint, gpaint, Xart

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-01-13
Entry compiled by	Bill Kendrick <bill@newbreedsoftware.com>

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