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ttuuxxx · Last edited by ttuuxxx on Mon 28 Apr 2008, 01:54; edited 1 time in total

Hi I came across this application and wanted to give it a try, I was using 3.02 at the time.
Description:
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Pencil is not intended to mimick web-oriented vector-based animation software such as Flash. Its main purpose is to make traditional animation. Neither does it try to rival commercial software targeting the professional animation sector. Pencil is intended to be a simple program enabling anyone to make 2D animation.

It needs QT4 libraries which I installed from Puppylinux.ca
Once installed the qt4 libraries don't seem to register with usr/lib so I made some system links, then some parts of the Qt4 were missing from the q4 install, so I added those, and a few more audio/png files and finally it worked:)
So I packaged it all up and here it is.

Qt4 library
http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet4/qt4-4.3.2.pet

And Pencil is below
hope it works well for you.
ttuuxxx

Lobster · Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 01:14 Post subject:

Tried in Puppy 3.99 (Dingo Beta 2)
Wot no animated rastapix logo yet? Wink

This is as far as I got

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 01:55 Post subject:

JB4x4 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 256

Shouldn't "libGLU.so.1" be part of an Xorg package - not QT?

I tried out Pencil in Puppy 3.99. I downloaded the Pencil.pet - installed the QT4 package via PETget (ibiblio repository), and have the Fatdog.sfs running (libGLU.so.1 included in sfs). Works like a charm.

JB

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1470 Location: Ukraine

Dear Puppians,

Just for your info, I compiled pencil some weeks ago and had problems with it - and all qt4 apps - because, when exiting, xorg would crash. I scoured all the qt4 forums for answers and found none. Eventually, I saw something under the icewm forums that said an error with qt4 had been fixed (I use icewm). Once I upgraded icewm, qt4 no longer gave problems, and I can now run and exit qt4 apps without xorg crashes. So the problems I was experiencing were not related to pencil or qt4 under Puppy 3.01, but my buggy version - at least in qt4 terms - of icewm.

with kind regards,
vovchik

Lobster · Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 10:52 Post subject:

Ttuuxxx
Downloaded and tried again. No luck
Then added fatdog

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 11:05 Post subject:

RR Koothady · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 247 Location: Coimbatore, India

Hi!

The drawing tools are simple and I really feel wonderful to use them. This definitely is a great program.

I installed qt.pet and then pencil.pet. No Problem. It works wonderfully. I am in Lobster's Timexxine 3.01.

Thank You ttuuxxx!

RRK

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1470 Location: Ukraine

Dear ttuuxxx,

Please tell me what style you are using for your qt4 apps. I use "bespin", but yours looks better, much more like regular OSX.

with thanks in advance and kind regards,
vovchik

kevin-isca · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Exeter, Devon

Hi

This is a great! I have been looking for a simple animation program.
All works but with the export to .swf I get

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1470 Location: Ukraine

Dear kevin-isca,

My own compiled version of pencil - using reqular puppy qt4 libs (on Puppy 3.01) - exports swf just fine - no segfaults or any other problems. You may be missing a few libs.

with kind regards,
vovchik

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 01 May 2008, 22:22 Post subject:

[quote="kevin-isca"]Hi

This is a great! I have been looking for a simple animation program.
All works but with the export to .swf I get

kevin-isca · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Exeter, Devon

Thanks for both of your responses. When I am staring at a screen going duh it helps that there is someone else out there Smile

ttuuxx - I have tried both libpng links but with no joy

vovchik - Did you compile Ming before Pencil? I am getting error messages when extracting the file.

The only joy is that using qt4-4.3.1 instead of qt4-4.3.2 removes the
pencil: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4) error
I am still left with the segmentation error on trying to export.

For my own sanity I have run Pencil with export successfully on ubuntu although with no sound.

I am trying to build a set of tools to work with in my class of 10-11 year olds. So far we have sound and rhythm with Audacity and Hydrogen, Gimp for graphics and open office for text and presentation. Animation and Video is the stumbling block so far. I am using cross platform open source as much as possible as it makes it far easier for families to access things at home. All good ideas its just getting the time to put everything together.

Cheers

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 03 May 2008, 08:49 Post subject:

kevin-isca · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Exeter, Devon

Wow