Tux paint user manual

Unless --noprintcfg is used, your previous settings will be loaded when Tux Paint starts up, and setting changes will be saved for next time.

By default --altprintmod , pressing [ALT] while clicking Print will bring up a dialog unless you're in fullscreen mode. With --altprintalways, the dialog will always appear, even if [ALT] is not being held. With --altprintnever, the dialog will never appear, even if [ALT] is being held. Ask Tux Paint to generate PostScript of a particular paper size.

Valid sizes are those supported by libpaper. See papersize 5. When disabled, shapes cannot be rotated; however, the interface is easier click, drag, release , which can be useful for younger or disabled children. This is useful for children who are not yet comfortable with the lowercase characterset. Default mode is mixed case. Default is to not grab. Default mode is shortcuts enabled. This can be disabled, and the wheel completely ignored, with the --nowheelmouse option. This is useful for children who aren't yet comfortable with the mouse.

Default is to support the wheel. With the --nobuttondistinction option, mouse buttons 2 middle and 3 right can be used, as well. Default is to only recognize button 1. This can be useful on touchscreen devices, such as tablet PCs. Save the picture in PNG format. It is highly recommended that you name the filename using the current date and time, since that's the convention Tux Paint uses:.

If you wish to add or change things like Brushes and Rubber Stamps used by Tux Paint, you can do it fairly easily by simply putting or removing files on your hard disk. Tux Paint looks for a directory called 'data' in the same directory as the executable. This is the directory that the installer used when installing Tux Paint e. You can also create brushes, stamps and fonts in your own directory for Tux Paint to find. Your personal Tux Paint directory is named "userdata" and is in the same directory as the executable e.

To add brushes, stamps and fonts, create subdirectories under your personal Tux Paint directory named " brushes ", " stamps " and " fonts ", respectively. For example, if you created a brush named " flower. The alpha transparency of the PNG image is used to determine the shape of the brush, which means that the shape can be 'anti-aliased' and even partially-transparent! Brush images should be no wider than 40 pixels across and no taller than 40 pixels high.

Note: If your new brushes all come out as solid squares or rectangles, it's because you forgot to use alpha transparency! All stamp-related files go in the " stamps " directory. It's useful to create subdirectories and sub-subdirectories there to organize the stamps. For example, you can have a " holidays " folder with " halloween " and " christmas " sub-folders.

Rubber Stamps in Tux Paint can be made up of a number of separate files. The one file that is required is, of course, the picture itself. They can be full-color or greyscale.

The alpha transparency of the PNG is used to determine the actual shape of the picture otherwise you'll stamp a large rectangle on your drawings. The PNGs can be any size, but in practice, a pixels wide by pixels tall x is quite large for Tux Paint.

Note: If your new stamps all have solid rectangular-shaped outlines of a solid color e. Text ". The first line of the text file will be used as the default description of the stamp's image.

Additional lines can be added to the text file to provide translations of the description, to be displayed when Tux Paint is running in a different locale like French or Spanish.

There are three ways of placing translated descriptions in a stamp's ". In each case, the beginning of the line should correspond to the locale code of the language in question e. That is, any special characters on the line will be interpreted literally. Lines beginning with " xx. For example, " es. You'll need an editor capable of saving UTF-8 encoded files.

If no translation is available for the language Tux Paint is currently running in, the default string the first line, which is typically in English is used. Be sure to save them as Plain Text, and make sure they have ". WAVE ". For sounds for different locales e. And so on If no localized sound effect can be loaded, Tux Paint will attempt to load the 'default' sound file. Aside from a graphical shape, a textual description, and a sound effect, stamps can also be given other attributes. To do this, you need to create a 'data file' for the stamp.

The file has the same name as the PNG image, but a ". Symbol stamps, like the mathematical and musical ones, are an example. Nothing about the original image is used except the transparency "alpha" channel. The color of the stamp comes out solid. This can be useful on touchscreen devices, such as tablet PCs.

If " --noshortcuts " mode, keyboard shortcuts e. Default mode is for shortcuts to be enabled. Grab the mouse and keyboard input if possible , so that the mouse is confined to the Tux Paint window. Default is to not grab. By default, the wheel jog dial on a mouse will be used to scroll the completely ignored, with the " --nowheelmouse " option. This is useful for children who aren't yet comfortable with the mouse. Default is to support the wheel. In this mode, instead of clicking, dragging and releasing e.

The " --keyboard " option lets the mouse pointer in Tux Paint be controlled with the keyboard. The [Up], [Down], [Left], and [Right] arrow keys move the pointer. By default, only mouse button 1 typically the leftmost mouse button on mice with more than one button can be used for interacting with Tux Paint. With the " --nobuttondistinction " option, mouse buttons 2 middle and 3 right can be used, as well. Default is to only recognize button 1. Specify which joystick device should be used by Tux Paint.

Default value is 0 the first joystick. Sets a delay at each axis motion, allowing to slow the joystick. Allowed values are from 0 to Default value is Sets the minimum level of axis motion to start moving the pointer. Sets the maximum pixels the pointer will move at once.

Allowed values are from 1 to 7. Default value is 7. Sets the delay after wich the pointer will start moving automatically if the hat is keeped pushed. Sets a delay at each automatic motion, allowing to slow the speed of the hat. Selects the joystick button number, as seen by SDL, that will be used to generate a escape event. Useful to dismiss dialogs and quit. Selects the joystick button number, as seen by SDL, that will be a shortcut to various tools within Tux Paint.

A set of joystick button numbers, as seen by SDL, that should be ignored. Otherwise, unless they are used by one of the " --joystick-btn Default is 0 no limitation. These options control whether an system printer dialog appears when the user clicks the Print button. By default " --altprintmod " , pressing [Alt] while clicking Print will bring up a dialog unless you're in fullscreen mode.

With " --altprintalways ", the dialog will always appear, even if [Alt] is not being held. Untitled By Jexi. View more from the gallery or other screenshots. Follow TuxPaintTweets on Twitter. Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 for example, preschool and K Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity.

It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.