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Posted: Tue 07 Oct 2008, 22:31
by swiatmar
Wow :)

pencil is a very nice animation tool. very simple and has everything what I need for simple animation instead flash.

There is only one problem in my pencil. everytime i try to save new animation as .swf the program is crashing. and I am losing everything :(

Has any one the same problem? and an idea how to fix it?

mar

Posted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 05:52
by ttuuxxx
swiatmar wrote:Wow :)

pencil is a very nice animation tool. very simple and has everything what I need for simple animation instead flash.

There is only one problem in my pencil. everytime i try to save new animation as .swf the program is crashing. and I am losing everything :(

Has any one the same problem? and an idea how to fix it?

mar
well we all had that problem, and wasn't able to fix it, I haven't looked at it lately, but I'll try to compile it again when a newer less buggy release is released :)
ttuuxxx

Posted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 10:41
by vovchik
Dear Puppians,

I compiled the new pencil - 0.4.4.b - on Puppy 3.01 with qt 4.4.1 without problems. Unlike my earlier version, this one started mangling the swf output, doing something wrong in the rendering of bitmaps. I had wanted to install the new version because the former one would not produce sound on my system. After noticing the newly mangled swfs, I installed the latest ming package (libs and executables) from the Slackware 12.0 repo. Still no luck. I think there are bugs in the latest pencil, as ttuuxxx has suggested. We will probably have to wait a bit until they fix them. Apart from that, pencil is indeed a nice program.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: Tue 13 Jul 2010, 06:00
by battleshooter
I'm with everyone, Pencil's awesome, thanks for the pet Ttuuxxx, but I can't seem to use the export movie function. Using it on Quirky. It's no big deal, just thought I'd mention it after playing with it a bit. Fun program!

Battleshooter

Posted: Tue 13 Jul 2010, 20:40
by vovchik
Dear Puppians,

I seem to recall that I figured out why the new version crashed. Everything was fine when libming was 0.3:

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/usr/lib/libming.so -> libming.so.0
 /usr/lib/libming.so.0 -> libming.so.0.3.0
Things get dicey in pencil with libming.so.1.4.x. When I restored those old libming links, pencil was able to export.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Posted: Sun 15 Aug 2010, 05:20
by Lobster
Where is this now?
Has pencil been petted for Lucid?

Posted: Sun 15 Aug 2010, 06:43
by paulhomebus
It's here....

Pencil for Lupu.... please test!
(includes Ming libs, QT4OpenGL etc, etc)

http://www.4shared.com/file/edSHD6pI/_2 ... Lucid.html

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 04:47
by Lobster
It's here....
many thanks
Where :shock:

How do I run it to test?
pencil from console not working . . .

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 07:02
by ttuuxxx
Lobster wrote:
It's here....
many thanks
Where :shock:

How do I run it to test?
pencil from console not working . . .
lobster did you install the qt pet for lucid also? It needs libQtXml.so.4 libQtGui.so.4 libQtCore.so.4
ttuuxxx

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 08:43
by paulhomebus
Lobster

You should find it under Graphics > Graphics Processing.

Hope that helps.
Paul

btw - I'll check dependencies on a clean Lupu LIVE-CD...

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 09:15
by Lobster
lobster did you install the qt pet for lucid also?
No where is that?

Looked here and all the usual places could not find - thought the package was inclusive?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LucidPuppyQuickpet

thanks guys :)

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 10:24
by ttuuxxx
Lobster wrote:
lobster did you install the qt pet for lucid also?
No where is that?

Looked here and all the usual places could not find - thought the package was inclusive?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LucidPuppyQuickpet

thanks guys :)
naaa lobster QT is never inclusive in a 1.6MB pet :)
Barry usually splits up the QT packages, some in the devx and some in another pet package.
The missing files you need you can get from Ubuntu, there are 4 of them
http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/m ... 5_i386.deb

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/m ... 5_i386.deb

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/m ... 5_i386.deb

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/m ... 3_i386.deb
ttuuxxx

Posted: Mon 16 Aug 2010, 10:41
by paulhomebus
Sorry Lobster, yeah my bad, qt4 wasn't included..

This one has....
http://www.4shared.com/file/T1kgosyE/Pe ... Lucid.html

7.4Mb tho!

Or just use the QT4 deb's from ttuuxxx with this one.
http://www.4shared.com/file/LPaxiJ8S/Pe ... Lucid.html

BTW - all the Pencil's uploaded are v0.4.4b - the latest.

Posted: Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:30
by maans
paulhomebus wrote:Sorry Lobster, yeah my bad, qt4 wasn't included..
This one has....
http://www.4shared.com/file/T1kgosyE/Pe ... Lucid.html
7.4Mb tho!
I realize this is an "old" thread, however with this pet Pencil shuts down abruptly when saving as a flashfile. (Lupo 5.1.0) is there any cure for this?
paulhomebus wrote:Or just use the QT4 deb's from ttuuxxx with this one.
http://www.4shared.com/file/LPaxiJ8S/Pe ... Lucid.htmlBTW - all the Pencil's uploaded are v0.4.4b - the latest.
Would this be the better choice?

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

original qt

Posted: Mon 18 Oct 2010, 18:37
by don570

Posted: Mon 18 Oct 2010, 19:49
by Lobster
Paul - just revisited this thread.
Pleased to report your 7.4 MB Pencil (or is that HD)
is working OK in Luci 213 (Puppy 5.2 development release)

Many thanks

Posted: Tue 05 Nov 2013, 21:15
by don570
I found I could get Pencil to work in puppy3 and puppy 4.31 (Lighthouse)

with the pencil download in first post and

ttuuxxx's version of qt

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 0276,d.eW0

It saved illustration as jpeg file only.

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Posted: Wed 06 Nov 2013, 16:03
by mikeb
Ok tried this out...the swf crash was due to the buggy libming included.(well it complained I had the wrong png version )
I downloaded a similar version from debian lenny and exported no problem.

This should be fine on older puppies otherwise...looks fun...the kids will test it out.

mike

Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 20:18
by RetroTechGuy
mikeb wrote:Ok tried this out...the swf crash was due to the buggy libming included.(well it complained I had the wrong png version )
I downloaded a similar version from debian lenny and exported no problem.

This should be fine on older puppies otherwise...looks fun...the kids will test it out.

mike
How does Pencil compare to other packages, such as:

"Easypaint: a QT MS paint replacement"

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79899

BTW, I found that just a couple packages from Debian can make the old Xfig program run (in the past, I used that to change my simple experimental data into "publication quality" -- graph, annotate, etc.).

Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 20:27
by mikeb
Well its an animation program aimed at producing swf cartoons.
Can also make .movs it seems though would not for me (more dependancies.) but the flash export was fine.

mike