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PabloDraw v3.0.16 ALPHA

This is a preview version of PabloDraw v3.0. This release is considered unstable. This means that you may lose your work if it doesn’t save correctly.

PabloDraw is an art viewer for many formats such as ANSI, ASCII, RIP, XBin, jpeg, png, etc. It can also be used to draw RIP, ANSI, ASCII, and XBin formats.

PabloDraw uses the awesome Eto.Forms cross-platform framework to provide native UI for each platform with a single set of code.

Screenshots

New Features

  • Multi-user networking to draw and chat together
  • Integrated Viewer & Editor
  • Browse the Sixteencolors archive directly
  • Can VIEW: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, Tundra, CtrlA, XBIN, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RIP, and Animated ANSI
  • Can EDIT: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, Tundra, CtrlA, XBIN, RIP
  • Can SAVE: ANSI, BIN, Tundra, CtrlA, XBIN, RIP, JPEG, GIF, PNG
  • Can view files within .ZIP and .RAR archives without unzipping them
  • 9px Fonts & DOS aspect emulation
  • Edit with any zoom level
  • Character set editor
  • Color Palette editor
  • Undo/Redo while editing
  • VGA Preview
  • Multi-platform for Windows, Linux, and OSX using native GUI toolkits (Windows Forms, GTK, and Cocoa, respectively)

Requirements

  • Linux: Mono 2.8 or 2.10 and GTK
  • Windows: .NET 4.0 (installer will install this if needed)
  • OS X: 10.5 Leopard (or greater)

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Feedback

Submit bugs or questions on the support forums, or join the discussion in #ansi on efnet.

Additional Notes

To run on linux, execute “mono PabloDraw.exe” from the command line. Ubuntu users (11.04 or earlier) can use this script to install mono 2.10. Ubuntu 11.10 comes with mono 2.10.

To use the F1, F2, etc keys on OSX without having to press the FN key, change the setting in System Preferences->Keyboard->Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

Change Log

v3.0.16 – October 28, 2011

  • RIP Editing!

v3.0.14 – October 4, 2011

  • Multi-user networking support added
  • Moved toolbar to side for more vertical drawing area
  • Big speed improvements for OS X and other platforms
  • A few bug fixes

v3.0.13 – August 19, 2011

  • Fix creating new documents
  • Fix character set editor dialog size on Windows
  • ansimations on windows should be fast again

v3.0.12 – August 18, 2011

  • OS X 10.7 Lion support, along with 10.5 and 10.6
  • Color Palette Editor (for Tundra and XBin)
  • Sauce Editor (almost 100% complete!)
  • Tundra and CtrlA format loading AND saving support
  • VGA Preview

v3.0.10 – July 6, 2011

  • Undo/Redo while editing
  • New character set editor / switcher
  • Fixed some ansi saving/loading bugs
  • Gray borders when editing
  • Cut/Copy/Paste to/from other applications

v3.0.9 – May 31, 2011

  • New Installer for Windows
  • Set width of canvas
  • Auto-scrolling option when viewing
  • BIN and XBin saving
  • Transparent/Under modes when pasting blocks
  • Many Bug fixes

v3.0.8 – April 21, 2011

  • RIP animations now work on mac and other platforms
  • Added color, character, and position pads
  • Fill dialog now works (select region, press ‘f’)
  • Sauce dialog works/looks pretty, but still doesn’t actually do anything
  • Added experimental Sixteencolors integration to browse files
  • Now handles ZIP/RAR files within ZIP/RAR files

v3.0.7 – March 25, 2011

  • Store preferences in proper locations (AppData, ~/Library/Application Support, ~/.config)
  • Mac OSX 10.5 should really work now d;

v3.0.6 – March 23, 2011

  • Many bug fixes on all platforms
  • Implement saving as image formats on OSX
  • Implement renaming/deleting files and folders
  • Can now rotate & flip blocks
  • Single .exe file for windows/linux for easy sharing!

v3.0.4 – March 17, 2011

  • Dialogs work in OS X
  • Add Save button to toolbar(s)
  • Added RAR support

v3.0.3 – March 16, 2011

  • Fixed windows launching and keyboard issues

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  • http://bbses.info mro

    pablo draw for linux has a win32 version instead and a readme.ans. should be .txt

    • Curtis Wensley

      The linux version is an .EXE that must be run via mono under linux (http://mono-project.com/). Please see the Additional Notes section above.

      The readme.ans is an ANSI file that can be loaded with PabloDraw. I may include a .txt version, but the ansi looks so much better.

  • Luciano Ayres

    Hi Eto!

    Nice job on PB 3.0 for OSX! :)

    I’ve just tested it and seems like the F8, F9, F10 character keys are not working, even with the System Preferences setup as required. All the other keys work as expected.

    I’ve also missed the VGA Preview window. :)

    Is it possible to dual view the normal drawing window with a vga preview window? That helps a lot while drawing.

    Great job!

    • Curtis Wensley

      Thanks! the F-keys are probably mapped to something in System Prefs > Keyboard Shortcuts (e.g. Expose is F9 usually). Alternatively, just click on the character in PabloDraw and it’ll insert it.

      The VGA preview window is coming! It’ll be similar to the old PabloDraw for windows where it can be shown while you draw. For now though, you can adjust the zoom level and draw while zoomed out.

  • http://tracker1.info/ Michael J. Ryan

    Nice… glad you’re still doing work on this… do you support loading/saving to synchronet’s ctrl-a codes, or renegade’s pipe codes? that would be pretty cool too.

    • Curtis Wensley

      Not at the moment, but I was planning on adding Ctrl-a codes due to a few people asking for them. Will probably be in the next version or so. (;

  • Ryan

    PabloDraw stopped working for me after upgrading to Lion (OS X). Any ideas/timeframe for an update/fix?

    • Curtis Wensley

      Hopefully in the next week or two. The tool I’m using (MonoMac) to build the native OS X version has not yet been updated to work on Lion, so I have to wait for that to work before I can release a Lion-compatible version.

  • Darthyutsi1

    I use the old PabloDraw at school, as it doesn’t require .NET Framework 4.0. I put the .ans file on Dropbox, and saved it to my laptop. Now, when I open it, the background is black (which I can’t seem to change), and this causes my black characters to not show up, even if I do ctrl-a. How do I fix this short of downgrading?

    • Anonymous

      You are probably referring to ‘notepad mode’ of the old version?  If you double click on the black colour, it should bring up a palette editor so you can change the black colour to white.  Unfortunately, this will not show your black characters either, as they will be white as well.

      I will look at adding notepad mode to the next version!

  • Fatal Exception

    This thing is awesome, but copy/paste on always mangles the image. Usually it seems the full height is never pasted. Example below. I’m using OS X. 

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    • Curtis Wensley

      Sorry, that looks fine to me, but I have no idea what you copied so I don’t know what the issue might be.  Try selecting all before copying (Cmd+A), then Cmd+C to copy.

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