Press Release: October 12, 2004 - Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.14

October 12, 2004 (The Internet) – New Breed Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tux Paint 0.9.14, the first major release this year of the highly acclaimed children’s art software. Over the past nine months, steady progress has been made to improve Tux Paint and implement features requested by teachers and parents.

Tux Paint 0.9.14 introduces several new features, including a highly-anticipated, easy-to-use configuration tool for parents and teachers, and a multi-layered coloring book mode. Reflecting its international team and focus, Tux Paint is currently available in over 45 different languages.

Highlights at a Glance

New Features

Mac OS X and Windows users will greatly benefit from Tux Paint Config, a simple graphical tool that allows parents and teachers to modify Tux Paint’s settings without manually editing a configuration file. (Screenshot)
Tux Paint now support coloring book outlines which overlay the drawings. (Screenshot) Additionally, dual-layered starter images give the illusion of depth by providing both a background and a foreground overlay. (Screenshot)

Feature Improvements

The ‘Eraser’ tool now supports multiple sizes.
A lock-file prevents multiple copies of Tux Paint from running when young children over-eagerly click its icon.
Colorization (tinting) of rubber stamp images has been improved.

Improved Multilingual Support

11 new languages are supported, bringing the total to 46, and almost all the old translations have been updated. The new languages are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hindi, Serbian, Slovenian, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Welsh.
Translations of the add-on rubber stamps images are now maintained using the standard gettext tools.

New 'Rubber Stamps'

Existing stamps have been improved and a number of new stamps have been added: automobiles, Canadian coins, Easter, fireworks, fruit, jack-o-Lantern and sea creatures.

Bugs Fixed

A number of both major and minor bugs have been fixed.

Obtaining Tux Paint 0.9.14

Tux Paint 0.9.14 can be downloaded over the Internet by visiting http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/. Source code and binary packages for various Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows are available.

Tux Paint is available at no cost and all source code, art and documentation is freely available under an Open Source license.

Supporting Tux Paint

Tux Paint has been supported through voluntary contributions of time and resources by over 80 individuals from around the world. To discover how you or your organization can join in and help support Tux Paint, visit the Help Tux Paint web page.

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