Leonardo Sketch

When you go to the polls today shouldn’t you make sure you have the support of a drawing program that will fight for your interests in Washington?

Other applications receive the majority of their funds from “Special Interests” like the Association to Flash America and Acrobats for a Longer Download. They’ve voted with “Big Drawing” over 108% of the time, and they pass the buck on to you, the hard working tax payer.

Don’t you deserve a drawing application created by “The People and for the People”? Leonardo Beta 2 improves layout speed by up to 50%, and adds “Export to HTML Canvas” so that your drawings won’t be locked into their file formats.

Voice your opinion now by downloading Leonardo Release 1, Beta 2.

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Most of the work for the past few months has gone into Amino, the UI toolkit
that Leonardo is built on, but Leo itself has gotten a few improvements as well:

• Amino gives us a more uniform look and feel, now skinnable with CSS
• Rulers!
• The Make a Wish Button, now the easiest way to send feedback.
• the canvas properly scrolls and zooms with real scrollbars now
• Under the “Path” menu you can now add, subtract, and intersect shapes.
• export to PDF
• actual unit tests for exporting to SVG & PNG, almost every kind of shape is supported now
• Tons of bug fixes

Unfortunately, as part of the Amino toolkit overhaul certain things have gotten
slower. In particular doing layout when you resize the window is significantly
slower. Don’t worry, I have lots of speed improvements coming to Amino which
will address this in Leo.

As always, please test and file bug reports. The export filters in particular are
probably still have bugs to fix.

Builds are here:

Hi everyone. I’ve just pushed back a bunch of changes to Leonardo. A detailed change list is below. The highlights are:

• Added export to PDF using the older iText library, also added unit tests to verify all of the export formats work.
• Completely removed the old skinning replaced with a new from scratch CSS 3 theming engine. This will make theming the UI very easy. For example, the buttons are defined thusly:

  
  Button, Checkbox, Radiobutton, Togglebutton {
      margin: 3px;
      padding: 8px;
      background-color: #c0c0c0;
      border-width: 1px;
      color: #444444;
      border-color: #f8f8f8;
      border-radius: 11px;
      text-align: center;
      shrink-to-fit: true;
  }
  
  Button, Togglebutton {
      background: linear-gradient(center top, #ebebeb 0%, #a1a1a1 100%);
      /* a black shadow offset by 3,2 with a blur radius of 4 */
      text-shadow: #000000 0px 1px 4px;
  }
  
  Button:hover, Togglebutton:hover {
      background: linear-gradient(center top, #04acec 0%, #0186ba 100%);
      color: #ffffff;
      border-color: #808080;
  }
  

• Completely removed the old layout system, replaced with a new from scratch CSS Box Flex Layout implementation. This makes layouts a lot easier to create declaratively. For example, create a resizable toolbar like this:

              return new HFlexBox()
                      .add(new Button("before"))
                      .add(new Spacer(),1)
                      .add(new Button("between"))
                      .add(new Spacer(),1)
                      .add(new Button("after"))
                      .add(new Button("wide button"));
  
  

• Added a localization system so we can make translations into other languages (we’re looking for volunteers).

You can get the new build here.
Please bang on it and file bugs. My goal is to have R1 final done by the end of the month.

Thanks!

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