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''Tux Paint'' is a bitmap graphics editor (a program for creating and processing raster graphics) geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers. Tux Paint is seen by many as a free software alternative to Kid Pix, a similar proprietary educational software product.〔(MacMerc review of Tux Paint ), June 18, 2003.〕 == History == Tux Paint was initially created for the Linux operating system, as there was no suitable drawing program for young children available for Linux at that time.〔(Interview with Bill Kendrick of NewBreedSoftware at OSNews ), August 16, 2002.〕 It is written in the C programming language and uses various free and open source helper libraries, including the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), and has since been made available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, BeOS and other platforms. Selected milestone releases: * 2002.06.16 (June 16, 2002) - Initial release (brushes, stamps, lines, eraser), two days after coding started * 2002.06.30 (June 30, 2002) - First Magic tools added (blur, blocks, negative) * 2002.07.31 (July 31, 2002) - Localization support added * 0.9.11 (June 17, 2003) - Right-to-left support, UTF-8 support in Text tool * 0.9.14 (October 12, 2004) - Tux Paint Config. configuration tool released, Starter image support * 0.9.16 (October 21, 2006) - Slideshow feature, animated and directional brushes * 0.9.17 (July 1, 2007) - Arbitrary screen size and orientation support, SVG support, input method support * 0.9.18 (November 21, 2007) - Magic Tools turned into plug-ins, Pango text rendering 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tux Paint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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