| Tux Paint gets a face lift |
Jul. 11, 2007
 Five years after the debut of its popular open-source drawing program for children, New Breed Software announced the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17.
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Along with source code, downloads of Tux Paint v0.9.17 are now available for users of Fedora Core Linux, Red Hat Linux 9 and Microsoft Windows; an Apple Mac OS X version will become available soon, a project spokesperson said.
This release offers many innovations alongside improvements to favorite features, including new stamps and brushes, and support for a wider variety of screen resolutions and orientations--good for use with widescreen LCD monitors and tablet PCs, the spokesperson said.
Key new improvements, according to the project, include:- Tux Paint's Stamp tool is now cleaner and more flexible.
- The addition of a smoothing filter minimizes pixelation when photographic stamps are scaled up.
- Newly added support for the Scalable Vector Graphics file format allows for byte-thrifty stamps that can scale up without any pixelation or blurring.
- The constantly growing collection of stamps is now separated into categories (plants, animals, holidays, and so on) for easier navigation.
Tux Paint 0.9.17 also debuts a new Input Method feature, which allows users to input non-Latin characters with the Text tool. It currently supports Japanese and Korean.
Tux Paint continues to learn new languages, thanks to its global community of developers. Tux Paint 0.9.17 now supports more than 70 languages, with new translations into Latvian, Telugu and Twi, in addition to updates in more than a dozen others.
Tux Paint 0.9.17 is available immediately for download--free of charge--from the Tux Paint Web site.
--Chris Preimesberger
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