| Tux Paint update ships |
Oct. 23, 2006
New Breed Software on Monday released a new version of Tux Paint, its popular open source drawing program for young children. Along with source code, downloads of Tux Paint v0.9.16 are now available for users of Fedora Core Linux, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS X.
Tux Paint 0.9.16, the first new version since November 2005, debuts two new features alongside a number of improvements to old favorites, the project team said in the release announcement. - A new, simple-to-use Slideshow feature allows users to select favorite works of art and show them at various interval speeds, a company spokesperson said. Slideshow can help teachers and students create classroom presentations and can even be used to make simple flip-book style animations.
- Tux Paint's paintbrush tool premieres two new improvements. A new animated brush feature cycles through a sequence of images, covering your canvas in a trail of footprints or skittering squirrels. Also, new directional brushes which change shape depending on which direction you draw, allow for more natural-looking strokes.
Version 0.9.16 also boasts a number of minor improvements over previous Tux Paint releases, including stereo sound effects, round erasers, improved "magic" tools, new "Starter" images, improved international character support in the "Text" tool, expanded user documentation, the option to create alternative color palettes, and numerous bug fixes. Developers will also enjoy improved code modularity and portability, the team said.
Thanks to its global community of developers, Tux Paint 0.9.16 includes translations into Arabic, Faroese, Gujarati, Scottish Gaelic, Ndebele, Tagalog, Tibetan, Venda, Xhosa and South African English, bringing the total number of supported languages to 69.
Tux Paint also runs natively on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Nokia 770 Internet tablets, Sharp Zaurus PDAs, Sun Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and BeOS platforms.
It can be downloaded free of charge here.
Screenshots are available to view here.
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