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User:PaulWise

2019-08-03T09:42:39Z

PaulWise: update for my current involvement

I was one of the people working on the Synfig Debian packages and helping out with Synfig, but I am no longer involved with the Synfig community.

Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise<br/>
Homepage: http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/<br/>

I place all my contributions to this wiki in the public domain.

== TODO ==

I no longer intend to work on any of these tasks, please feel free to take them over, especially the code bits:

*infrastructure
**review-board for patches
**daily builds
***git svn rebase
***packages
****debian
****win32
**backups
***database backups without passwords
***sync to sourceforge
**synfig.org
***look at synfig.com comments
***editable comments page
***[[WikiTranslation#What_functionality_I_expect_from_Multilanguage_Extension|Multilanguage Extension]]
**ikiwiki
***mediawiki2git script
***mediawiki plugin
***migrate bugs
**git
***windows support
***submodule stuff
***migrate svn
**mine web.archive.org/voria.com
**https on synfig.org
*maintainers
**mac
**gentoo
*code
**gnome thumbnailer integration
**create synfig_modules dynamically
**fix libavcodec plugin gremlins
**fix relocatability
**fix warnings in examples
**fix preview not showing by default
**tangoification - ArtLibreSet
**scrolling
***horiz
****workarea scrollbars
****timetrack dock
****timetrack scrollbars
****curves dock
***vert
****curves dock zooms??
**treeview tooltips
**about dialog
**fix meta dialog
**better message dialogs
**layers
***metaballs
**use libraries instead
***use libdv rather than encodedv
***add importing to mod_magickpp
****drop mod_imagemagick
***decide what to do about ffmpeg
*ide stuff
**split out into another module
*packaging
**split out into another module
**autopackage
**jhbuild
**debian
***run one or two tests
***merge security patches

Animation Ideas

2009-06-14T00:47:05Z

PaulWise: remove sentence that doesn't make sense without the title

This page is for people that want to share some animation ideas.
Post a short description of your ideas/storyboards here, it may inspire some Synfig artists that momentarily lost the wind of inspiration :)

[[Category:Permalink]]

=="Upward, Outward, Onward"==

This is a concept from Kazuki Mishima for a science fiction short film. He encourages Synfig users to use the concept for their own animation.

===Concept===

A frightened child runs swiftly down oppressive alleyways.

In the same city, a lone motorcyclist cruises down dark streets on big, friendly wheels.

Government agents in sinister suits with sinister faces and sinister intent invade the sidewalk along which the child runs.

From afar, the motorcyclist sees the child's plight and accelerates toward the scene.

The sinister agents surround the child in a circle. One of them produces a syringe, which he points toward the child. The child suffers a momentary panic, then becomes calm. The child looks at the syringe, and it shatters. The agents are bewildered. In a moment some great invisible force knocks all the agents to the ground.

The same force knocks the motorcyclist's helmet into the air, revealing an astonished but stolid face beneath.

The motorcyclist pulls up sharply beside the child and beckons. The child, seeing a means of escape, leaps onto the back of the motorcycle and holds the motorcyclist for protection as they speed off into the night and more agents arrive at the scene.

The child indicates a direction to the motorcyclist, who steers down a side street toward a concrete wall topped with barbed wire and guarded by armed agents.

The motorcyclist has doubts about their direction, but the child offers encouragement, and they speed on toward the wall.

The agents begin to shoot at the tires with pistols, but the same mysterious force that defeated them before deflects the bullets. Concentration contorts the child's face and, with glorious intensity, the motorcycle lifts completely from the street and hurtles over the wall.

On the other side of the wall, the motorcycle and its passengers land shakily on a dirt road leading through bright fields of vegetation into a small , dazzling agrarian town. As they enter the town, the motorcycle slows, and people run from the inviting doorways of the buildings to greet the child and the motorcyclist. The child's mother, overcome with joy, darts from the crowd to lift her child into the air. A group of awed villagers surround the motorcyclist to express their gratitude.

Within the city, several agents stare confounded at the concrete wall. One of them shifts his gaze upward to the brilliant blue sky, where a single bird flying among the wispy strands of cloud is joined by a whole flock heading for a warmer place.

"I may try to do some work on this sometime in the next few months." - richardwad1

Doc:Getting Started

2009-06-12T15:21:34Z

PaulWise: Reverted edits by Rtsp (Talk); changed back to last version by Dooglus

[[Category:Tutorials]]

== Introduction ==

Synfig, like most every other competent graphics program, breaks down individual elements of a [[canvas]] into [[layer|layers]]. However, it differs from other programs in two major ways:

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# An individual layer in Synfig usually represents a single "Primitive". ie: A single region, an outline of a region, an imported JPEG, etc... This allows you to have a great deal of flexibility and control. It is not uncommon for a composition to have hundreds of layers(organized into a hierarchy for artist's sanity of course).
# A layer can not only composite information on top of the image below it, but also distort and/or modify it in some other way. In this sense, Synfig Layers act much like filters do in Adobe Photoshop or the GIMP. For example, we have a [[Blur Layer]], [[Radial Blur Layer]], [[Spherize Layer]], [[Color Correct Layer]], [[Bevel Layer]], etc...

Each layer has a set of parameters which determine how it behaves. When you click on a layer (either in the canvas window, or in the [[Layers Panel]]), you will see its parameters in the [[Params Panel]].

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Synfig Studio has an autorecover feature. If it crashes, even if the current file has not been saved, it will not lose more than 5 minutes of work. At restart it will automatically prompt the user to recover the unsaved changes. Unfortunately history isn't recovered yet. That feature comes later.

One thing you may notice is that Synfig Studio is SLOW, making it practically unusable on hardware that is over 3 years old. The biggest reason for this is that all of the color calculations are done in floating point--because Synfig Studio was built from the ground up with High-Dynamic-Range Imaging in mind. HOWEVER, this will not be the case forever.

darco has some fairly major re-implementations and optimizations that he plans to implement that should quite dramatically improve the performance of Synfig on all platforms. The goal is not a 200% speed increase, it is at least a 2000% speed increase. With the optimizations that are planned to be implemented, we will be able to pipeline operations in such a way that this performance improvement can be realized. It should also pave the way to hardware acceleration using todays powerful graphics processors, which should yield further performance improvements measurable in orders of magnitude.

== The user interface ==

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When you start Synfig Studio, it will display a splash graphic and boot itself up. After it finishes loading, you should see three windows. The window in the upper left is the [[toolbox]]. This is where you can open files, change [[tools]], etc. You'll notice that most of the buttons are grayed out--because there is no file open yet.

The other two windows (one on the bottom, and one to the right) are customizable [[dock dialogs]]. You can rearrange the contents of these however you wish by simply dragging the tab to where you want it. You can even create a new dock dialog by dragging a [[dock tab|tab]] out of the dock dialog it was inside of.

If you ever accidentally close a [[dock tab]] (by dragging it out of the dock dialog, and closing the new dock dialog that gets created), no worries. Simply goto the toolbox and goto "File->Dialogs", and then click on the name of the dialog you need.

There are a lot of [[dock tab]]s. If you have no idea what a dock tab does, simply hold your mouse over its icon and a tooltip will pop up describing the name of the tab.
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Here are some of the more important ones:

* [[Layers Panel]] - This tab shows you the layer hierarchy for the currently selected canvas. It also allows you to manipulate these layers.
* [[Params Panel]] - This tab will show you the parameters of the currently selected layer, (OR, if multiple layers are selected, it shows you only the parameters that the selected layers have in common)
* [[Categorical Help#Synfig Dialogs|Tool Options Panel]] - Shows you any options specific to the currently selected tool
* [[Navigator|Navigator]] - Shows you a thumbnail of what the currently selected Canvas looks like. You can also zoom in and move the focus around with this tab.
* [[History Panel]] - Shows you the history stack for the current composition. You can also edit the actions in history.

If you click the "new composition" button in the toolbox, a new [[Work Area Window]] will be opened. Click the caret menu (between the horizontal and vertical rulers in the top left corner of the work area), then "View" then "Properties", and the [[Canvas Properties Dialog|canvas properties dialog]] will appear.

The canvas properties dialog is a mess, I know. I'll have it re-designed into something much more comprehensible some time in the future. For now, ignore the "Image Area" and "Locks and Links" sections.

If you click OK, the canvas properties dialog will disappear and you will see the [[Canvas window]]. This window represents the [[Root Canvas]], not that that means much to you at the moment, but that's OK--I'm just trying to show you around.

In the upper left corner of the Canvas Window, you'll see a button with a [[Canvas Menu Caret|caret]]. If you click on this button, the [[Canvas Menu Caret|canvas window menu]] will pop up. (As an aside, if you right click in the canvas area and there is not a [[layer]] under the mouse position, this menu will also appear) So now you know where the menu is in the Canvas Window. Good. Everything else should be pretty self-explanatory in the Canvas Window. (Explanations on the menu stuff is to come in a sec)

== First steps ==

Let's create something so that we can tweak with it. Now that you have a new composition open and the properties dialog is out of the way, go over to the toolbox and click on the [[Circle Tool|circle tool]]. (If you don't know which one it is, just mouse over them until you find the one with the tooltip that says "circle").

The second you click on the circle tool, you should notice that the [[Tool Options Panel]] changed. But we'll get to that later.

: '''Note''': Some laptop users might experience trouble where click-drag on the canvas when using the [[Circle Tool|circle tool]] doesn't seem to do anything or produce insanely huge circles. The problem is that Synfig has detected the touchpad and enabled that device (incorrectly!) To fix this: click File->Input devices... In the resulting dialog window, select 'Disabled' for your touchpad device. After this change, your external mouse and the touchpad will work as expected.

With the circle tool selected, you can now create circles in the [[Work Area]]. This pretty much works exactly as you might expect it to. Go ahead and create two (or more, if you fancy) circles. If by accident you just clicked on the canvas instead of clicking and dragging (with mouse button pressed) to draw the circle, you end up creating a circle with 0 radius and it is effectively invisible! No need to worry, you can easily fix this. In the Params Panel, you can change the parameters of the selected object. If you just made a 0 radius circle, it should be the current selected object. you can change its radius to some value other than 0, say 10, and manipulate it to your liking with the canvas ducks later.

Now go back to the toolbox and click on the [[Normal Tool|normal tool]] (the blue circle with the arrow on it). After you do this, click on one of your circles. You will then see a [[bounding box]](which is kinda useless at this point in time, but I digress), a green dot at the center, and a cyan dot on the radius. Those dots are called ''[[duck]]s''. If you want to modify the circle, grab a duck and drag it around. Easy!

So you can select a [[layer]] by clicking on it. If you want to select more than one layer, hold down CONTROL while you are clicking -- this works in both the [[Work Area]] and the [[Layers Panel]]. Try it!

You can also select multiple ducks. You can do this in several ways. First, you can hold down CONTROL and individually click the ducks that you want selected, but this can be tedious. However, there is a much faster method -- just create a [[Selection|selection box]] by clicking the mouse and dragging it over the area of ducks that you want selected.

Go ahead and select two circles, and select all of their ducks. With several ducks selected, moving one duck will move all of the ducks. This behavior is dependent on the [[Normal Tool|normal tool]]. Thus, a more descriptive name for this tool might have been the "move" or "translate" tool.

The [[Rotate Tool|rotate]] and [[Scale Tool|scale]] tools work much like the [[Normal Tool|normal tool]], except in the case where you have multiple ducks selected. It is much easier to just try it than read about it. Select a few circles, select all of their ducks, and try using the rotate and scale tools.

Note that, unlike the normal tool, the other duck manipulation tools DO have options associated with them. If a particular tool isn't doing what you want, take a look in the [[Tool Options Panel]] to see if it is set up like you want it.

== Linking ==

Now let's try [[linking]]. Let's say we always want these two circles to be the same size. Select two circles, and then select both of their Radius ducks (the cyan dots).
To select multiple ducks, either drag a rectangle around them, or select the first one, then hold the Control key while selecting the rest. Once you have the two radius ducks selected, right click on either duck and a menu will pop up. Click on "Link". Boom. The parameters are linked together. You can prove it to yourself by selecting just one of the circles and changing its radius -- the other one will change as well. Neat stuff, eh?

Linking is a fundamental concept in Synfig. You can create links not only between ducks, but also between parameters as well by selecting multiple layers, right clicking on the parameter in the param tab, and selecting "Link".

<small>DIGRESSION: This is how [[Outline Layer|outlines]] are attached to their [[Region Layer|regions]]—but I'm getting ahead of myself. At the moment, the fundamental power and flexibility of linking in Synfig Core is beyond what Synfig Studio currently allows for. This will change in the future. Anyway, back on track...</small>

Let's say you want one of the circles to be a different color. If you look in the toolbox below the tools, you'll see the foreground/background color selector, the outline width selector, and some other stuff like the default blend method and gradient. The foreground/background color widget works exactly as you might expect -- you can click on the foreground color, and a modest color chooser will appear. Now to can change the color pretty easily.

But sometimes you just want to click on a color and go. This is where the palette editor tab comes in. Its functionality isn't quite 100% yet (ie: saving and loading custom palettes hasn't been implemented yet), but the default palette is pretty decent. Click on the Palette editor tab and have a look -- it's the one with the palette-ish looking icon. Clicking on colors in here will immediately change the default foreground color.

That's all great, but we still haven't changed the color of the circle. There are two ways to do this. The first way is that you select the circle layer you want to modify, goto the params tab and double click on the color parameter--a color selector dialog shows up and you just tweak away. But let's say you already got the color you wanted selected as the default foreground color. Easy. Just click on the "Fill tool" from the toolbox, and then click on the circle in the canvas window. Boom. Circle changes color. This works with more than just circles, but we'll get to that in a sec.

Try playing around with the circles for a bit. Muck around with the parameters, and see what happens. To get you started, play around with feather a bit.

== Digging deeper ==

Of course, so far you just found out how to use the basic features of Synfig Studio but not how you animate a drawing. This is covered in the [[Animation_Basics|next tutorial]].

Donations

2009-06-09T07:27:47Z

PaulWise: typo

== Donate to Synfig organization ==

[[User:Genete|Genete]] has created a Paypal account to collect donations for the following:

* Help [[User:Darco|Darco]] pay for the server that hosts synfig.org
* Collect money to pay for expenses for attendance to the [[Events|events]] where Synfig people can participate.

You can
[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in EUR] or [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in USD]. If you need other currency, please let us know.

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rmfObaQ3E_XCK5MDzZkVfFA&output=html Here] you can find the history of that paypal account. We aim to make all our finances transparent. It is updated monthly or more frequently.

== Donate to our main developer ==

Also, If you would like to donate to our main developer ([[User:Dooglus|dooglus]]):

* http://sourceforge.net/users/dooglus This one discounts the fees from Sourceforge and from Paypal but shows your donations in the Synfig project at SourceForge.
* http://dooglus.rincevent.net/paypal.html This one just discounts the fees from Paypal. Only dooglus would know that you donate to him.

== Donate to free software for creativity ==

If you would like to support free software for creativity, please support the Libre Graphics Meeting:

* http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

== Donate to free software in general ==

If you would like to support free software in general, here are some suggested organisations:

* [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center]
* [http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]
* [http://www.efa.org.au/ Electronic Frontiers Australia]
* [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
* [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]

Donations

2009-06-09T07:27:18Z

PaulWise: grammar fix

== Donate to Synfig organization ==

[[User:Genete|Genete]] has created a Paypal account to collect donations for the following:

* Help [[User:Darco|Darco]] pay for the server that hosts synfig.org
* Collect money to pay for expenses for attendance to the [[Events|events]] where Synfig people can participate.

You can
[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in EUR] or [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in USD]. If you need other currency, please let us know.

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rmfObaQ3E_XCK5MDzZkVfFA&output=html Here] you can find the history of that paypal account. We aim to make all our finances transparent. It is updated monthly or more frequently.

== Donate to our main developer ==

Also, If you would like to donate to our main developer ([[User:Dooglus|dooglus]]):

* http://sourceforge.net/users/dooglus This one discounts the fees from Sourceforge and from Paypal but shows your donations in the Synfig project at SoutceForge.
* http://dooglus.rincevent.net/paypal.html This one just discounts the fees from Paypal. Only dooglus would know that you donate to him.

== Donate to free software for creativity ==

If you would like to support free software for creativity, please support the Libre Graphics Meeting:

* http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

== Donate to free software in general ==

If you would like to support free software in general, here are some suggested organisations:

* [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center]
* [http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]
* [http://www.efa.org.au/ Electronic Frontiers Australia]
* [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
* [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]

Donations

2009-06-09T03:21:21Z

PaulWise: wording fixes

== Donate to Synfig organization ==

[[User:Genete|Genete]] has created a Paypal account to collect donations for the following:

* Help [[User:Darco|Darco]] pay for the server that hosts synfig.org
* Collect money to pay for expenses for attendance to the [[Events|events]] where Synfig people can participate.

You can
[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in EUR] or [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in USD]. If you need other currency, please let us know.

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rmfObaQ3E_XCK5MDzZkVfFA&output=html Here] you can find the history of that paypal account. We are in the aim to make all our finances transparent. It is updated monthly or more frequently.

== Donate to our main developer ==

Also, If you would like to donate to our main developer ([[User:Dooglus|dooglus]]):

* http://sourceforge.net/users/dooglus This one discounts the fees from Sourceforge and from Paypal but shows your donations in the Synfig project at SoutceForge.
* http://dooglus.rincevent.net/paypal.html This one just discounts the fees from Paypal. Only dooglus would know that you donate to him.

== Donate to free software for creativity ==

If you would like to support free software for creativity, please support the Libre Graphics Meeting:

* http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

== Donate to free software in general ==

If you would like to support free software in general, here are some suggested organisations:

* [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center]
* [http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]
* [http://www.efa.org.au/ Electronic Frontiers Australia]
* [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
* [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]

Donations

2009-06-09T03:18:08Z

PaulWise: more fixes

== Donate to Synfig organization ==

[[User:Genete|Genete]] has created a Paypal account to collect donations for the following:

* Help [[User:Darco|Darco]] on defray the server that host synfig.org
* Collect money to defray expenses for attendance to the events where Synfig can participate: LGM, etc.

You can
[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in EUR] or [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted donate in USD]. If you need other currency, please let us know.

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rmfObaQ3E_XCK5MDzZkVfFA&output=html Here] you can find the history of that paypal account. We are in the aim to make all our finances transparent. It is updated monthly or more frequently.

== Donate to our main developer ==

Also, If you would like to donate to our main developer ([[User:Dooglus|dooglus]]):

* http://sourceforge.net/users/dooglus This one discounts the fees from Sourceforge and from Paypal but shows your donations in the Synfig project at SoutceForge.
* http://dooglus.rincevent.net/paypal.html This one just discounts the fees from Paypal. Only dooglus would know that you donate to him.

== Donate to free software for creativity ==

If you would like to support free software for creativity, please support the Libre Graphics Meeting:

* http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

== Donate to free software in general ==

If you would like to support free software in general, here are some suggested organisations:

* [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center]
* [http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]
* [http://www.efa.org.au/ Electronic Frontiers Australia]
* [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
* [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]

Donations

2009-06-09T03:15:10Z

PaulWise: typo fixes

==Donate to Synfig organization ==

[[User:Genete|Genete]] has created a Paypal account to collect donations for the following:

* Help [[User:Darco|Darco]] on defray the server that host synfig.org
* Collect money to defray expenses for attendance to the events where Synfig can participate: LGM, etc.
If you want to donate click on this button:

[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG_global.gif] for donations in EUR.

[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EWEMWKFYGKWAY&lc=GB&item_name=Donate%20to%20Synfig%20Studio%20organizers&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG_global%2egif%3aNonHosted https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG_global.gif] for donations in USD.

If you need other currency, please let us know.

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rmfObaQ3E_XCK5MDzZkVfFA&output=html Here] you can find the history of that paypal account. We are in the aim to make all our finances transparent. It is updated monthly or more frequently.

==Dontate to our main developer==
Also, If you would like to donate to our main developer ([[User:Dooglus|dooglus]]):

* http://sourceforge.net/users/dooglus This one discounts the fees from Sourceforge and from Paypal but shows your donations in the Synfig project at SoutceForge.
* http://dooglus.rincevent.net/paypal.html This one just discounts the fees from Paypal. Only dooglus would know that you donate to him.

If you would like to support free software for creativity, please support the Libre Graphics Meeting:

* http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

If you would like to support free software in general, here are some suggested organisations:

* [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center]
* [http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]
* [http://www.efa.org.au/ Electronic Frontiers Australia]
* [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
* [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]

Download

2009-06-08T18:06:36Z

PaulWise: link to distributions page

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= Current Release =


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| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (RPM)'''
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (DEB)'''
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (TAR.BZ2)'''
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|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2113.binary.1.i386.rpm synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2113.binary.1.x86_64.rpm synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio_0.61.09-2113.binary.1_i386.deb synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio_0.61.09-2113.binary.1_amd64.deb synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2113.binary.1.i386.tar.bz2 synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/0.61.09/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2113.binary.1.x86_64.tar.bz2 synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent RPM-based Linux distributions (RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva).
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent Debian-based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu).
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent Linux distributions, no requiments for package management system, highly portable, but no desktop integration.
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:15px;" | <hr> NOTE: If your Linux [[Distributions|distribution]] already have a recent Synfig Studio package in repositories then it's preferred to use them, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates. Packages above provide the quick and easy way to install and run latest Synfig Studio on most Linux systems. But because of their unified nature they have many dependent libraries included and we're unable to keep track of their bugfix updates. So installing them could be a security risk. If you have encounter any problems with those packages, report them [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=341 here].
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''Windows'''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (EXE)'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suitable for Windows XP/Vista (both 32bit and 64bit). All four packages are required, see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|
|
|
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:15px;" | <hr> NOTE: There are [[Security|security issues]] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files. Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''MacOS X'''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (Native)'''
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 (FINK)'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">Taken offline.</div>
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Please see bug [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 1686495]. Patches and volunteers to create new packages are welcome. Until someone volunteers, you can [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|build it yourself]] or install via fink.
| style="vertical-align:top;" | All four packages are required.
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:15px;" | <hr>
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''Source code'''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig 0.61.09'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:10px;" | <hr>
|}

= Development snapshots =

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''Linux '''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 SVN2376 (RPM)'''
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 SVN2376 (DEB)'''
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 SVN2376 (TAR.BZ2)'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1.i386.rpm synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1.x86_64.rpm synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio_0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1_i386.deb synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio_0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1_amd64.deb synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1.i386.tar.bz2 synfigstudio (i386)] <br> [http://download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/morevnapackage/binaries/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2376.morevnapackage.1.x86_64.tar.bz2 synfigstudio (x86_64)]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent RPM-based Linux distributions (RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva).
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent Debian-based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu).
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suits most recent Linux distributions,no requiments for package management system, highly portable, but no desktop integration.
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:15px;" | <hr> NOTE: If your Linux [[Distributions|distribution]] already have a recent Synfig Studio package in repositories then it's preferred to use them, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates. Packages above provide the quick and easy way to install and run latest Synfig Studio on most Linux systems. But because of their unified nature they have many dependent libraries included and we're unable to keep track of their bugfix updates. So installing them could be a security risk. If you have encounter any problems with those packages, report them [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=341 here].
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''Windows'''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig 0.61.09 SVN2375 (EXE)'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://synfig.org/files/synfig-0.61.09-2375.exe synfig] [http://synfig.org/files/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2375.exe synfigstudio]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Suitable for Windows XP/Vista (both 32bit and 64bit). All four packages are required, see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|
|
|
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:15px;" | <hr> NOTE: There are [[Security|security issues]] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files. Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan = "3" style="padding:10px;" | '''Source code'''
|-
| style="padding:5px; width:30%;" |
|-
| '''Synfig SVN'''
|-
|
|-
| <div style="float:left;">http://synfig.org/images/0/01/PackageIcon.jpg</div> <div style="margin:0 0 0 42px;">[[Source_code|SVN]]</div>
|-
| style="padding:3px;" |
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
| colspan = "3" style="padding-bottom:20px;" | <hr>
|}

A special thanks to [http://www.bridgetone.com/ Bridgetone] for hosting our videos and early downloads!

Dev:Release

2009-06-07T13:11:45Z

PaulWise: distro packages

[[Category:Building]]

==Preparation==

Choose a release manager (RM) who will manage the release and do most of the work and co-ordination needed to get a release out.

The RM will be responsible for deciding when the code is ready to be released and which problems will block the release.

The RM must have a proper up to date copy of the sourcecode. Check out [[Source code|here]] to see how to obtain it.

The RM must be an administrative member of sourceforge and to have write access to the synfig subversion. Ask any of the current administrators about that. Also a wiki account and a forum account are necessary.

We would assume that the svn local copy of the source code are in a separate folder in your local drive and they are: etl, synfig-core, and synfig-studio accordingly to the [[Source code|source code]] instructions.

== Splash ==

* Pick a date at least 5 weeks into the future.
* Post a splash screen challenge in the forums.
* After 4 weeks, close the challenge and post a poll.
* After one week close the poll and name the winnar!
* Obtain the source of the winner file and commit it:
** Rename the synfig-studio/images/splash-screen.sifz to synfig-studio/images/splash-xx.xx.xx.sifz where xx.xx.xx is the previous version.
** Add the new splash source file to synfig-studio/images/splash-screen.sifz
** Modify synfig-studio/images/Makefile.am accordingly.
** Update synfig-studio/AUTHORS, synfig-studio/README, and synfig-studio/src/gtkmm/about.cpp if needed.

== Freeze commits ==

It would be good if no one commit more changes/patches until the release is done. Mainly because at some point we need to stop polishing the current revision.

First should come the feature freeze, then the string freeze and then the final cutoff of translations & bug fixes just before the release.

There is no technical way to freeze commits with sourceforge, so the developers should be willing to play nice with the release.

Ping coders, artists and translators and advice them about the release preparation. Ask for last updates before freezing the commits. Give some time to update. Preferably no more than a week.

==Copyrights==

Make sure the copyrights in README, the AUTHORS file and the about dialog list of contributors are up to date.

Do a <code>grep -r Copyright README</code> in the three etl, synfig-core and synfig-studio folders. It would return all the poeple that have current copyrights. Review the list of commits and the patches authoring to update it properly. Review the AUTHORS in each folder and don't forget the artists and translators.

== Release candidates ==

Following the [[#Create the tarball|this instructions]] to create a tarball of the current svn release, [[#Upload tarball|upload them to sourceforge]] and tag them as Release Candidate number 1, 2 etc. Create as many Release candidates as you need or consider. Ask people to download and [[#Test before send to SF|test them]]. The forum and the IRC is a good place.
When everything goes fine then continue the release.

==Versioning==

*Finalise the dates and SVN ids in NEWS.
** You already know the release revision number and the date of the next commit. Place them correctly in the etl/NEWS, synfig-core/NEWS and synfig-studio/NEWS files.

*Bump version numbers and ETL/synfig dependencies in the configure.ac files.
**This would imply increase the version number in the following files:
***etl/configure.ac: increase ETL version number
***synfig-core/configure.ac: increase ETL version number dependence matching the previous one and the synfig version number.
***synfig-studio/configure.ac: Increase ETL and synfig version number dependence matching the previous ons and the synfigstudio version number.

* Double check the version numbers in configure.ac and NEWS are correct. Fix them if are wrong.

* Double check the copyright years in the README files and the about dialog are correct. Fix them if are wrong.

== Create the tarball ==

Create a tarball to allow users to just compile and install. Run the following commands and substitute the ''XX'' versions properly. For example for etl the numbering is nowadays 0.04.12 and for synfig and synfigstudio numbering are nowadays 0.61.09. Some day we should decide what do to with version numbering.

*This would prepare the environment variables to the correct values. local-synfig is the place where you would install the binary after test its installation.
export PREFIX="$HOME/local-synfig"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig"
export PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
*This creates a temporary working folder to download the source and create the tarballs.
mkdir ~/tmp
mkdir ~/tmp/synfig-release
*This creates the etl tarball and install it.
version=0.04.12
cd ~/tmp/synfig-release
svn export https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/ETL/trunk/ etl
cd etl
autoreconf -if
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make distcheck
tar xf ETL-${version}.tar.gz
cd ETL-${version}
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make install
*This creates the synfig tarball and install it.
version=0.61.09
cd ~/tmp/synfig-release
svn export https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/synfig-core/trunk/ synfig
cd synfig
libtoolize --ltdl --copy -f
autoreconf -if
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make distcheck
tar xf synfig-${version}.tar.gz
cd synfig-${version}
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make install
*This creates the synfigstudio tarball and install it.
version=0.61.09
cd ~/tmp/synfig-release
svn export https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/synfig-studio/trunk/ synfigstudio
cd synfigstudio
autoreconf -if
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make distcheck
tar xf synfigstudio-${version}.tar.gz
cd synfigstudio-${version}
./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
make install

== Test before send to SF ==
* Test installed stuff. To run the installed synfigstudio from the tarball you've created you have to run directly from the command line:

$PREFIX/bin/synfigstudio

At this point there should be some battery of tster sifz files and scripts to run various error proof tests to be sure that the release don't have nasty bugs. Share the tarball with other people that have other OS and ask them to build and run the same tests. There is not exact procedure for that. Maybe contact the [[People|People]] and ask them to do that job. This point is important for testing the release in different platforms, specially if there has been some changes that can have cross effects.

== Make tags ==
*Make tags and update the unstable branch. At each {etl, synfig-core, synfig-studio} folders run the following commands:
make tagstable
make tagrelease

==Release notes==
*Write release notes based on the NEWS files. This would imply produce a new version at [[Releases]] page and its short versions (for example: [[Releases/0.61.08-Intro.en]]) to be sent to sf.net and freshmeat.net.

== Upload tarballs ==
* Upload tarballs to sourceforge.
** Upload the three tarballs to SF by using [https://frs.sourceforge.net/webupload the online upload] or following the instructions from [http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/File+Release+System+-+Offering+Files+for+Download#tocFile%20Release%20System%20-%20Offering%20Files%20for%20Download4 this link]
** Create a new release at sf.net following the instructions of this [http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/File+Release+System+-+Offering+Files+for+Download#tocFile%20Release%20System%20-%20Offering%20Files%20for%20Download12 link]
** Update the "Source code" platform page following the instructions of this [http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/File+Release+System+-+Offering+Files+for+Download#tocFile%20Release%20System%20-%20Offering%20Files%20for%20Download13 link]

==Update the rest of stuff==

* Update the topic in the [[Contact|irc channel]].
* Update the [[Download]], [[Releases]], [[News/Draft]], [[Main Page|front]], [[News]], [[Roadmap]], [[FAQ]] pages.
* Update the artwork of the MainPage and release all the editable graphics in [[Releases/Artwork|this page]]
* Ping [[User:Pxegeek|pixelgeek]] to download the tarballs, build windows versions and upload them to sourceforge.
* Ping [[Distributions|distros]] to upgrade their packages by sending a mail to each of the people maintaining packages. Suggest that they send us patches and that they might want to do translations.
* Post a release announcement on the [[Contact|forums]], sourceforge and get [[PaulWise]] (pabs) to update [http://freshmeat.net/projects/synfig freshmeat] and [http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Synfig gnomefiles.org].
* Send a short writeup to the folks at LWN.net and the [[Contact|mailing lists]].
* Update wikipedia with latest release information
* Celebrate with a nice $BEVERAGE_OF_CHOICE
* Start thinking about the [[Roadmap]] for the next release.

A week or two later, check that all the unofficial packages have been updated, if not ping them and move them to the old versions section. Also check the svn versions are recentish and if not move them to the old versions section.

Distributions

2009-06-07T13:09:34Z

PaulWise: add distributions

Synfig is present or available for the following distributions:

[[#source|<img src="http://www.reactos.org/media/pictures/2007/devpack1.png"/>]] [[#windows|<img src="http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions/windows_icon.png">]] [[#macosx|<img src="http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/images/icon-macos.gif"/>]] [[#ubuntu|<img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/images/icon-ubuntu.png"/>]] [[#debian|<img src="http://www.winehq.org/images/distro/debian.png"/>]] [[#fink|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/FinkLogo.jpg/80px-FinkLogo.jpg"/>]] [[#zenwalk|<img src="http://wiki.zenwalk.org/images/thumb/d/dd/CommunityPortal.png/50px-CommunityPortal.png"/>]]
[[#gentoo|<img src="http://fillets.sourceforge.net/img/logo/gentoo.png"/>]]
[[#arch|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Archlinux_logo.svg/48px-Archlinux_logo.svg.png"/>]]
[[#pardus|<img src="http://www.acikbilgi.com/wp-content/pardus.jpg"/>]]
[[#freebsd|<img src="http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/supportedSystems/freebsd.png"/>]]
[[#opensuse|<img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png"/>]]
[[#slackware|<img src="http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackweb.jpg"/>]]
[[#fedora|<img src="https://www.inteco.es/extfrontinteco/osi/actualizacionesSW/SO/fedora_peq.png
"/>]]
[[#mandriva|<img src="http://www.mandriva.com/archives/var/mdk/storage/images/media/images/star_on_transparent_background/261440-3-eng-US/star_on_transparent_background.png">]]
[[#momonga|<img src="http://www.momonga-linux.org/img/momo_banner.png">]]

If you know of any other packages, please add them below or [[Contact|contact]] us and ask for them to be added here.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| <div id="source"></div>[[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="windows"></div>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm]
[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]
| Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="macosx"></div>[http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X]
|
| '''''Taken offline''''', has [[#macosx_issues|major issues]]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="ubuntu"></div>[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:etl etl] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and later in universe. For information on Synfig on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) or Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalop) see [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=277 this link].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="debian"></div>[http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://packages.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Debian 5.0 (lenny) and later in main
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fink"></div>[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]
|align="center"| [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Fink unstable
|-
|align="center"| <div id="momonga"></div>[http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Momonga Linux 5 and later
|-
|align="center"| <div id="zenwalk"></div>[http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=ETL&zversion=all etl] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-core&zversion=all synfig] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-studio&zversion=all synfigstudio]
| Available in Zenwalk extras
|-
|align="center"| <div id="gentoo"></div>[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277 etl] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278 synfig] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279 synfigstudio]
| Available in Gentoo [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ Project Sunrise]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="arch"></div>[http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=VoriaETL etl] [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=synfig synfig synfigstudio]
|Available in Arch Linux unsupported
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pardus"></div>[http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/etl.html etl] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfig.html synfig] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfigstudio.html synfigstudio]
| Available in Pardus contrib
|-
|align="center"| <div id="freebsd"></div>[http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/etl/pkg-descr etl] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/synfig/pkg-descr synfig] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/graphics/synfigstudio/pkg-descr synfigstudio]
| Available in FreeBSD ports
|-
|align="center"| <div id="mandriva"></div>[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Mandriva [http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#.2Fcontrib.2Fbackports /contrib/backports]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="opensuse"></div>[http://www.opensuse.org openSUSE]
|align="center"| [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/etl etl] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfig synfig] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://packman.links2linux.de/ PackMan]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="slackware"></div>[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware]
|align="center"| [http://slacky.eu/?searchword=synfig&option=com_search&Itemid=5 etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://slacky.eu/ Slacky.eu]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fedora"></div>[http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428567 etl] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428568 synfig] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479527 synfigstudio]
| Available in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Red Hat Bugzilla]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pclinuxos"></div>[http://pclinuxos.com/ PCLinuxOS]
|align="center"| 
| Available in the <tt>synaptic</tt> Package Manager.
|}

Converters

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PaulWise: add link to the new exporter by Link Muave

== Importers ==

synfig currently only supports importing bitmap images or its own vector image format. This can be annoying, especially since many use Inkscape for drawing. There are a couple of converters that might be useful:

[[Svg2synfig|SVG]]: A XSLT transform for converting SVG files directly to SIF format. Also there is a C program that converts SVG to SIF files directly.

[[Gimp2synfig|GIMP]]: A GIMP plugin for converting GIMP images to the SIF format.

== Exporters ==

synfig currently only supports exporting bitmap images or video formats. This can be annoying, for artists who like to work with multiple media and multiple software programs. There is a converter that might be useful:

[[Sif2svg|SVG]]: A XSLT transform for converting SIF files directly to SVG format. Please note that the synfig format is subject to change so this may not always work.

Blend Method Parameter

2009-05-28T17:04:32Z

PaulWise: cleanup

[[Category:Parameters]]
The various compositing methods available for Layers in Synfig. (''What compositing/blending is.'')

In the following descriptions, 'A' refers to the color on the layer with the blend method setting, and 'B' refers to the color on the layers beneath it. Note that in almost all layers, the alpha channel of the colors will have a scaling effect on the blending. The 'amount' parameter will also have a scaling effect. In most descriptions these 2 details have been glossed over.

In the examples that follow a gradient ranging from black to white to transparent (A) is blended on the layer above an [[Paste Canvas|inline canvas]] of Tux on a transparent background (B).

A) http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png & B) http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png

The currently available blend methods are:

==Composite==

This blend method is the default option, it simply displays the content of the layer. This blend mode is similar the layer blend mode '''Normal Mode''' often found in 2D programs.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/composite.png

==Straight==

This blend method looks similar to the previous one, except that the objects under a ''straight''-object will be invisible. So if there is a more or less transparent object on the ''Straight mode'' layer, the objects on the layers underneath won't show through it.

More precisely, the resulting color is "(A-B)*amount + B". So if amount is 1 the result is A and if amount is 0 the result is B. In particular, if amount is 1 and A is a very transparent color, the resulting color will also be A; despite the fact that A is very transparent, none of B's color is used.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png

==Onto==

If a layer is set to the ''Onto'' blend method, only the parts of the layer that are over a not transparent area will be visible.

Precisely: this is the same as the Composite blend method except that the transparency of the resulting color is set to be the same as the transparency level of layer B.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/onto.png

==Straight Onto==
This method is a combination of the two methods above. E.g. if an half-transparent object is set to ''Straight Onto'', it will only be visible over a non-transparent area, and the non-transparent part under that object won't be visible.

Precisely: the resulting color is "(X-B)*amount + B" where X is A but with its transparency set to A's transparency times B's transparency.

So if amount is 1 the result is A, but with its transparency multiplied by that of B, and if amount is 0 the result is B. In particular, if amount is 1 and A is a very transparent color, the resulting color will be a possibly more transparent version of A; despite the fact that A is very transparent, none of B's color is used in the result.

(Yuck. Are these 'precisely' comments useful?)[Yes!]

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straightonto.png

==Behind==

This blend method makes the layer visible over transparent areas, and invisible over non-transparent areas, giving the impression that the layer is behind the other layers. It is often used for the "Shade" effect layer, to make a drop-shadow effect.

Precisely: this is the same as the composite blend method, but with A and B swapped. B is composited onto A instead of A being composited onto B.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/behind.png

==Screen==

This blend method is similar to the '''Screen Mode''' often found in 2D programs. It combines the colors of the ''screen mode layer'' and the ones behind it, and gives a lighter result in general.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/screen.png

==Overlay==
This is similar to '''PhotoShop''' - layer blend mode '''Overlay Mode'''

Precisely: define 3 new colours: RM = A * B; RS = 1-(1-A)*(1-B); RET = A*RS + (1-A)*RM then blend RET onto B as in the Onto method above(!)

Any idea what that is aiming to do? Or what the layer does in this '''PhotoShop''' program?
This appears to emulate the effect of a cross-fade between the two layers if they are set to equal amounts - i.e like 'add', but maintaining the overall brightness of the image

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/overlay.png

==Hard Light==

This is similar to '''PhotoShop''' - layer blend mode '''Hard Light Mode'''

For each of red, green and blue, if the component is in the top half of its range then calculate X=1-(1-(2A-1))*(1-B), otherwise calculate X=2AB, then blend X onto B as in the Onto method above.

Is this aiming to make bright colours brighter and dark colours darker?

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/hardlight.png

==Multiply==
This is similar to '''PhotoShop''' - layer blend mode '''Multiply Mode'''

Precisely: the resulting colour is (((A*B)-B)*amount+B). The calculation is performed independently on red, green, and blue components. When amount is 0, this simplifies to B. When amount is 1 it simplifies to A*B.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/multiply.png

==Divide==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting color is (((B/A)-B)*amount)+B.

When amount is 0, this becomes simply B.

When amount is 1, this becomes B/A.

A very small quantity is added to A before dividing by it to avoid a divide-by-zero condition. This causes the divide blend method to bias toward positive values, but the effect is really negligible.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/divide.png

==Add==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting color is (B + A*A.alpha*amount). The calculation is performed independently on red, green, and blue components. The resulting color's alpha is B.alpha.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/add.png

==Subtract==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is (B-A). The calculation is performed independently on red, green, and blue components.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/subtract.png

==Difference==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is the absolute value of (B-A). The calculation is performed independently on red, green, and blue components.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/difference.png

==Brighten==

''Describe me''

Precisely: for each of the red, green, and blue components, compare A's value with B's value and use the higher of the pair.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/brighten.png

==Darken==

''Describe me''

Precisely: for each of the red, green, and blue components, compare A's value with B's value and use the lower of the pair.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/darken.png

==Color==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is obtained by adjusting B to have the same U and V values as A, while keeping Y the same.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/color.png

As this example looks just like the saturation one, perhaps a yellow gradient instead of a white one would be more illustrative

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/yellowgradient.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png =
http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/coloryg.png

==Hue==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is obtained by adjusting B to have the same hue as A.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/hue.png

==Saturation==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is obtained by adjusting B to have the same saturation as A. Saturation is the magnitude of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV UV vector].

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/saturation.png

As this example is so similar to the 'Color' blend example, here it is with a yellow gradient -

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/yellowgradient.png +
http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png =
http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/saturationyg.png

==Luminance==

''Describe me''

Precisely: the resulting colour is obtained by adjusting B to have the same Y (luma) value as A, while keeping U and V the same.

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/luminance.png

==Alpha over==

''Describe me''

http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/straight.png + http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/synfigtux.png = http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/alphaover.png

Download

2009-05-28T06:19:37Z

PaulWise: remove duplicate links

== Disclaimer ==

We are aware that there are lots of features missing in synfig. This software is under development and needs more polishing to become a mature program. Lots of bugs have been killed and now the stability of the program has increased considerably. There are some known issues than occasionally might make you frustrated. Despite this disclaimer there are proofs that the program is completely usable for professional work as demonstrated by some of the works in the [[Gallery]]. Please help us to make a better program in any of its aspects (artwork, translation, wiki improvement, tutorials, finding bugs, sending patches, etc.). We will embrace any of your proposals!.

A special thanks to [http://www.bridgetone.com/ Bridgetone] for hosting our videos and early downloads!

== Download ==

Synfig 0.61.09 is the latest release from the Synfig community. Please read the [[Releases/0.61.09|release notes]] for information about what changed.

[[#source|<img src="http://www.reactos.org/media/pictures/2007/devpack1.png"/>]] [[#windows|<img src="http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions/windows_icon.png">]] [[#macosx|<img src="http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/images/icon-macos.gif"/>]] [[#ubuntu|<img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/images/icon-ubuntu.png"/>]] [[#debian|<img src="http://www.winehq.org/images/distro/debian.png"/>]] [[#fink|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/FinkLogo.jpg/80px-FinkLogo.jpg"/>]] [[#zenwalk|<img src="http://wiki.zenwalk.org/images/thumb/d/dd/CommunityPortal.png/50px-CommunityPortal.png"/>]]
[[#gentoo|<img src="http://fillets.sourceforge.net/img/logo/gentoo.png"/>]]
[[#arch|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Archlinux_logo.svg/48px-Archlinux_logo.svg.png"/>]]
[[#pardus|<img src="http://www.acikbilgi.com/wp-content/pardus.jpg"/>]]
[[#freebsd|<img src="http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/supportedSystems/freebsd.png"/>]]
[[#opensuse|<img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png"/>]]
[[#slackware|<img src="http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackweb.jpg"/>]]
[[#fedora|<img src="https://www.inteco.es/extfrontinteco/osi/actualizacionesSW/SO/fedora_peq.png
"/>]]
[[#mandriva|<img src="http://www.mandriva.com/archives/var/mdk/storage/images/media/images/star_on_transparent_background/261440-3-eng-US/star_on_transparent_background.png">]]
[[#momonga|<img src="http://www.momonga-linux.org/img/momo_banner.png">]]

=== Licence ===

ETL, synfig and synfigstudio are [[License|licensed]] under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later.

=== Issues ===

<div id="macosx_issues"></div>
'''MacOS X''': '''''Taken offline''''', please see bug [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 1686495]. Patches and volunteers to create new packages are welcome. Until someone volunteers, you can [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|build it yourself]] or install via [[#fink|fink]].

<div id="windows_issues"></div>
'''Windows''': There are [[Security|'''security issues''']] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files.

'''Windows''': Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].

=== Packages ===

More than one package is available for each platform listed in the Releases section. Read here which packages are required or optional depending on your setup or needs. For some platforms the packages are downloadable and installable from within the package management for that platform. For these, the links only point to an information page rather than the package itself.

Synfig: (Sometime referred to as Synfig Core). This package contains the source code or binary of the command line version of Synfig, which is for rendering existing SIF or SIFZ files. It is also used by Synfig Studio for rendering final artwork.

Synfig Studio: This package contains the source code or binary of the GUI application of Synfig. Synfig Studio is the graphical interface program used to create artwork, SIF/SIFZ files.

ETL: This package contains the Extended Template Library. This library is used when compiling Synfig & Synfig Studio. It is not required at runtime (hence is not distributed for Windows).

gtk: This package contains the runtime binaries for GTK+, a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Synfig Studio uses these widgets (via GTKmm) to create its GUI interface.

gtkmm: This package contains the runtime binaries for gtkmm, a C++ interface for the GUI library GTK+ (which is written in C). Synfig Studio is written in C++ and uses this library to access GTK+.

=== Installation ===

The installation instructions are specific to each platform listed in the '''Releases''' section below and can be found in the '''Notes''' column or as a package.

=== Releases ===

If you know of any other packages, please add them below or [[Contact|contact]] us and ask for them to be added here.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| <div id="source"></div>[[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="windows"></div>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm]
[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]
| Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="macosx"></div>[http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X]
|
| '''''Taken offline''''', has [[#macosx_issues|major issues]]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="ubuntu"></div>[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:etl etl] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and later in universe. For information on Synfig on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) or Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalop) see [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=277 this link].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="debian"></div>[http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://packages.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Debian 5.0 (lenny) and later in main
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fink"></div>[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]
|align="center"| [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Fink unstable
|-
|align="center"| <div id="momonga"></div>[http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Momonga Linux 5 and later
|-
|align="center"| <div id="zenwalk"></div>[http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=ETL&zversion=all etl] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-core&zversion=all synfig] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-studio&zversion=all synfigstudio]
| Available in Zenwalk extras
|-
|align="center"| <div id="gentoo"></div>[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277 etl] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278 synfig] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279 synfigstudio]
| Available in Gentoo [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ Project Sunrise]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="arch"></div>[http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=VoriaETL etl] [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=synfig synfig synfigstudio]
|Available in Arch Linux unsupported
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pardus"></div>[http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/etl.html etl] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfig.html synfig] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfigstudio.html synfigstudio]
| Available in Pardus contrib
|-
|align="center"| <div id="freebsd"></div>[http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/etl/pkg-descr etl] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/synfig/pkg-descr synfig] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/graphics/synfigstudio/pkg-descr synfigstudio]
| Available in FreeBSD ports
|-
|align="center"| <div id="mandriva"></div>[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Mandriva [http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#.2Fcontrib.2Fbackports /contrib/backports]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="opensuse"></div>[http://www.opensuse.org openSUSE]
|align="center"| [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/etl etl] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfig synfig] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://packman.links2linux.de/ PackMan]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="slackware"></div>[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware]
|align="center"| [http://slacky.eu/?searchword=synfig&option=com_search&Itemid=5 etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://slacky.eu/ Slacky.eu]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fedora"></div>[http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428567 etl] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428568 synfig] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479527 synfigstudio]
| Available in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Red Hat Bugzilla]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pclinuxos"></div>[http://pclinuxos.com/ PCLinuxOS]
|align="center"| 
| Available in the <tt>synaptic</tt> Package Manager.
|}

=== Snapshots ===

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://synfig.org/code/ETL-svn.tar.gz etl] [http://synfig.org/code/synfig-svn.tar.gz synfig] [http://synfig.org/code/synfigstudio-svn.tar.gz synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]]. Automatically updated daily from SVN.
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://synfig.org/files/synfig-0.61.09-2375.exe synfig] [http://synfig.org/files/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2375.exe synfigstudio]
| Built occasionally by pxegeek, currently SVN 2375. Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [[Gentoo_Ebuilds#SVN_Ebuilds|etl synfig synfigstudio]]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| Fedora 8: [http://atrus.mmaa.ru/synfig/#fc etl synfig synfigstudio]<br>
Fedora 7: [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/blog/tags/download/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Built by Atrus and Zelgadis
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repositories] for feisty (svn 1513), gutsy (svn 1456), hardy (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repository] for sid (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|}

Press

2009-05-28T06:15:41Z

PaulWise: microblogging seems popular now

== Articles ==

* Newsforge: [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2056255 Nathan Willis, Synfig 2D vector animation program opens source]
* Barrapunto: [http://barrapunto.com/softlibre/06/08/10/1547250.shtml Synfig: Animación 2D profesional para Linux]
* Linux.com: [http://www.linux.com/feature/115325 Synfig experiments with 2-D animation]
* LWN: [http://lwn.net/Articles/241382/ The Synfig 2D Animation package]
* debaday: [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/02/synfig-the-free-software-alternative-for-2d-animation/ Synfig: the free software alternative for 2D animation]

== Interviews ==

* [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241 OSNews interview with darco]

== Talks ==

* [[Events|LCA 2008]]: Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].
* [[Events|DebConf 2008]]: [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]

== Mentions ==

* [http://www.blendernation.com/2008/09/23/the-morevna-project/ BlenderNation article about the Morevna Project]
* [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5#77 LINUX Format magazine - hot pick in issue 77 - march 2006]
* [http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/05/31/007202.shtml Ask Slashdot - Efficient 2D Animation Software? - mentioned in the comments]
* [http://gnomejournal.org/article/38/de-forming-models-with-sharpconstruct a blog about sharpconstruct]
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/236193/ our irregular news got mentioned on LWN]
* [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92763 heated blender discussion]
* [http://lifehacker.biz/articles/best-freeware-design-software/ Best Freeware Design Software - Animation]
* [http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ 480+ Open Source Applications]
* [http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/ Top 100 of the best Open Source Applications]
* [http://www.mcye.misiones.gov.ar/content/view/106/41/ Free Alternatives:Vector animation, on the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina website (es)]
* [http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/27_69813_9.shtml Los 10 mejores softwares alternativos que ofrece internet]
*[http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/05/20-vector-graphic-editors-reviewed/ 20 vector graphic editors reviewed, mentionned in SmashingMagazine 2008]

== Blogs ==

* [http://del.icio.us/search/?p=synfig del.icio.us]
* [http://digg.com/search?s=synfig digg]
* [http://www.technorati.com/search/synfig technorati]
* [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=synfig google]
* [http://advogato.org/person/rmathew/diary.html?start=146 mentioned in a blog about the Narnia special effects]
* [http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1404?tag=nefd.aof CNET blog about equivalents to windows multimedia apps]
* [http://www.hoodyhoo.com/2007/08/16/creativity-in-linux-synfig/ creativity in Linux]
* [http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/07/35-cool-applications-to-install-on.html 35 cool applications to install on Linux]
* [http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/07/20/45-best-freeware-design-programs/ 45 Best Freeware Design Programs]
* [http://go.mibbit.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tatica.org%2Findex.php%2Fblog%2Fshow%2FInstalando-Synfig.html Installing Synfig in Fedora (Spanish)]

== Microblogs ==

* [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=synfig twitter]
* [http://identi.ca/search/notice?q=synfig identi.ca]

== Videos and images ==

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ flickr]
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=synfig google images]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 google video]
* [[Gallery|site gallery]]
* [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded youtube]

Download

2009-05-18T07:07:39Z

PaulWise: minor cleanup

== Disclaimer ==

We are aware that there are lots of features missing in synfig. This software is under development and needs more polishing to become a mature program. Lots of bugs have been killed and now the stability of the program has increased considerably. There are some known issues than occasionally might make you frustrated. Despite this disclaimer there are proofs that the program is completely usable for professional work as demonstrated by some of the works in the [[Gallery]]. Please help us to make a better program in any of its aspects (artwork, translation, wiki improvement, tutorials, finding bugs, sending patches, etc.). We will embrace any of your proposals!.

A special thanks to [http://www.bridgetone.com/ Bridgetone] for hosting our videos and early downloads!

== Download ==

Synfig 0.61.09 is the latest release from the Synfig community. Please read the [[Releases/0.61.09|release notes]] for information about what changed.

[[#source|<img src="http://www.reactos.org/media/pictures/2007/devpack1.png"/>]] [[#windows|<img src="http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions/windows_icon.png">]] [[#macosx|<img src="http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/images/icon-macos.gif"/>]] [[#ubuntu|<img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/images/icon-ubuntu.png"/>]] [[#debian|<img src="http://www.winehq.org/images/distro/debian.png"/>]] [[#fink|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/FinkLogo.jpg/80px-FinkLogo.jpg"/>]] [[#zenwalk|<img src="http://wiki.zenwalk.org/images/thumb/d/dd/CommunityPortal.png/50px-CommunityPortal.png"/>]]
[[#gentoo|<img src="http://fillets.sourceforge.net/img/logo/gentoo.png"/>]]
[[#arch|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Archlinux_logo.svg/48px-Archlinux_logo.svg.png"/>]]
[[#pardus|<img src="http://www.acikbilgi.com/wp-content/pardus.jpg"/>]]
[[#freebsd|<img src="http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/supportedSystems/freebsd.png"/>]]
[[#opensuse|<img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png"/>]]
[[#slackware|<img src="http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackweb.jpg"/>]]
[[#fedora|<img src="https://www.inteco.es/extfrontinteco/osi/actualizacionesSW/SO/fedora_peq.png
"/>]]
[[#mandriva|<img src="http://www.mandriva.com/archives/var/mdk/storage/images/media/images/star_on_transparent_background/261440-3-eng-US/star_on_transparent_background.png">]]
[[#momonga|<img src="http://www.momonga-linux.org/img/momo_banner.png">]]

=== Licence ===

ETL, synfig and synfigstudio are [[License|licensed]] under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later.

=== Issues ===

<div id="macosx_issues"></div>
'''MacOS X''': '''''Taken offline''''', please see bug [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 1686495]. Patches and volunteers to create new packages are welcome. Until someone volunteers, you can [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|build it yourself]] or install via [[#fink|fink]].

<div id="windows_issues"></div>
'''Windows''': There are [[Security|'''security issues''']] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files.

'''Windows''': Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].

=== Packages ===

More than one package is available for each platform listed in the Releases section. Read here which packages are required or optional depending on your setup or needs. For some platforms the packages are downloadable and installable from within the package management for that platform. For these, the links only point to an information page rather than the package itself.

Synfig: (Sometime referred to as Synfig Core). This package contains the source code or binary of the command line version of Synfig, which is for rendering existing SIF or SIFZ files. It is also used by Synfig Studio for rendering final artwork.

Synfig Studio: This package contains the source code or binary of the GUI application of Synfig. Synfig Studio is the graphical interface program used to create artwork, SIF/SIFZ files.

ETL: This package contains the Extended Template Library. This library is used when compiling Synfig & Synfig Studio. It is not required at runtime (hence is not distributed for Windows).

gtk: This package contains the runtime binaries for GTK+, a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Synfig Studio uses these widgets (via GTKmm) to create its GUI interface.

gtkmm: This package contains the runtime binaries for gtkmm, a C++ interface for the GUI library GTK+ (which is written in C). Synfig Studio is written in C++ and uses this library to access GTK+.

=== Installation ===

The installation instructions are specific to each platform listed in the '''Releases''' section below and can be found in the '''Notes''' column or as a package.

=== Releases ===

If you know of any other packages, please add them below or [[Contact|contact]] us and ask for them to be added here.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| <div id="source"></div>[[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="windows"></div>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm]
[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]
| Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="macosx"></div>[http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X]
|
| '''''Taken offline''''', has [[#macosx_issues|major issues]]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="ubuntu"></div>[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:etl etl] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and later in universe. For information on Synfig on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex see [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=277 this link].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="debian"></div>[http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://packages.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Debian 5.0 (lenny) and later in main
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fink"></div>[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]
|align="center"| [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Fink unstable
|-
|align="center"| <div id="momonga"></div>[http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Momonga Linux 5 and later
|-
|align="center"| <div id="zenwalk"></div>[http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=ETL&zversion=all etl] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-core&zversion=all synfig] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-studio&zversion=all synfigstudio]
| Available in Zenwalk extras
|-
|align="center"| <div id="gentoo"></div>[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277 etl] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278 synfig] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279 synfigstudio]
| Available in Gentoo [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ Project Sunrise]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="arch"></div>[http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=VoriaETL etl] [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=synfig synfig synfigstudio]
|Available in Arch Linux unsupported
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pardus"></div>[http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/etl.html etl] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfig.html synfig] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfigstudio.html synfigstudio]
| Available in Pardus contrib
|-
|align="center"| <div id="freebsd"></div>[http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/etl/pkg-descr etl] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/synfig/pkg-descr synfig] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/graphics/synfigstudio/pkg-descr synfigstudio]
| Available in FreeBSD ports
|-
|align="center"| <div id="mandriva"></div>[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Mandriva [http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#.2Fcontrib.2Fbackports /contrib/backports]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="opensuse"></div>[http://www.opensuse.org openSUSE]
|align="center"| [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/etl etl] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfig synfig] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://packman.links2linux.de/ PackMan]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="slackware"></div>[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware]
|align="center"| [http://slacky.eu/?searchword=synfig&option=com_search&Itemid=5 etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://slacky.eu/ Slacky.eu]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fedora"></div>[http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428567 etl] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428568 synfig] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479527 synfigstudio]
| Available in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Red Hat Bugzilla]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pclinuxos"></div>[http://pclinuxos.com/ PCLinuxOS]
|align="center"| 
| Available in the <tt>synaptic</tt> Package Manager.
|}

=== Snapshots ===

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://synfig.org/code/ETL-svn.tar.gz etl] [http://synfig.org/code/synfig-svn.tar.gz synfig] [http://synfig.org/code/synfigstudio-svn.tar.gz synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]]. Automatically updated daily from SVN.
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://synfig.org/files/synfig-0.61.09-2375.exe synfig] [http://synfig.org/files/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2375.exe synfigstudio]
| Built occasionally by pxegeek, currently SVN 2375. Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [[Gentoo_Ebuilds#SVN_Ebuilds|etl synfig synfigstudio]]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| Fedora 8: [http://atrus.mmaa.ru/synfig/#fc etl synfig synfigstudio]<br>
Fedora 7: [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/blog/tags/download/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Built by Atrus and Zelgadis
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repositories] for feisty (svn 1513), gutsy (svn 1456), hardy (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repository] for sid (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|}

Events

2009-05-14T05:03:33Z

PaulWise: LGM finished

== Future events ==

Some synfig related events:

* [http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] and [http://akademy.kde.org/ Akademy] 2009: 3rd - 11th July 2009 in the Canary Islands
* [http://debconf.org/ DebConf9]: 16th - 31st July 2009 in Extremadura, Spain
** [[PaulWise]] will attend
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 2010, date and location yet to be posted

Attendees should consider doing lightning or other talks about synfig and or making a report about synfig-related activities at the conferences.

== Past events ==

* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: May 2009 in Montreal, Canada
** Synfig was not represented
* [http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/ PIKSEL08]: 4th - 7th December 2008 in Bergen, Norway
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/p08_presentations.htm 2D Animation with FLOSS]" demoing Synfig and other FLOSS art tools
* [http://linux.conf.au linux.conf.au]: 19th - 24th January 2009 in Hobart, Australia
** [[PaulWise]] attended, chatted with Inkscape developers
* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: October 31th 2008 in Totoras, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]
* [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Freedom Software Day] : September 20th, 2008 in Rosario, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/rosario/en Animation with Free Software]"
* [http://www.epuel.org.ar EPUEL: Encuentro Por Una Educación Libre] (Meeting for a Free Education) : September 12th, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Attendees: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]]
* [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf8]: 2nd-17th August 2008 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
** [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://www.comic-con.org/ Comic Con]: 24-27th July 2008 in San Diego, USA
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 8-11th May 2008 in Wroclaw, Poland
** Synfig was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.synfig.user/144 invited] but no-one was able to make it.
* [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au]: January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia
** Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].

Doc:Video Tutorials

2009-05-05T03:02:52Z

PaulWise: add caped character tutorial

[[Category:Tutorials| ]]

In this section you'll find some basic video tutorials of the most common tasks in Synfig. Feel free to ask here for any new video tutorial.

== Animation Basics ==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxn9jqFJrg Synfig basic animation tutorial]: This video tutorial shows how to do a (very) basic animation. The tutorial roughly follows the [[Animation Basics|animation basics]] tutorial.

<videoflash>WUxn9jqFJrg|425|344</videoflash>

== Creating a Bline ==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-ku0bA23A Creating a BLine]: This small video tutorial shows the basic steps to build a BLine. Video editing was done using Synfig itself.

<videoflash>bQ-ku0bA23A|425|350</videoflash>

== Creating Circles, Rectangles and a Bline ==

[http://youtube.com/?v=SM1qUqGyIpA Creating Circles, Rectangles, and a Bline]: Short tutorial about creating Circles, Rectangles, and a Bline.

<videoflash>SM1qUqGyIpA|425|350</videoflash>

== Flower Animation ==

This video tutorial shows how to do an animation of a growing flower. The tutorial roughly follows the written [[Flower Animation|flower animation]] tutorial.

=== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1EjObyN1pc Part 1 of 4] ===

<videoflash>U1EjObyN1pc|425|344</videoflash>

=== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSAilqEKEJs Part 2 of 4] ===

<videoflash>oSAilqEKEJs|425|344</videoflash>

=== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STP01dOxvMU Part 3 of 4] ===

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=== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcAqZxwOWM Part 4 of 4] ===

<videoflash>8dcAqZxwOWM|425|344</videoflash>

== Following a Bline ==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w87KRL3kD74 Following a Bline:] This video tutorial show how to link a shape to a Bline. It doesn't follow strictly the [[Following a BLine|tutorial]] but would help you to follow it.

<videoflash>w87KRL3kD74|425|350</videoflash>

== Pseudo IPO-drivers in Synfig ==

Zelgadis gave us [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/files/synfig/ipo-drivers-synfig.ogg this] method to control playback using a variable.

== Animating a caped character ==

A 3-part tutorial on making an animated caped character in synfig.

=== [http://youtube.com/?v=S0snIErKuFg Part 1 of 3] ===

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=== [http://youtube.com/?v=nv_KR9rG55Y Part 2 of 3] ===

<videoflash>nv_KR9rG55Y|425|344</videoflash>

=== [http://youtube.com/?v=s3B9L6amPn8 Part 3 of 3] ===

<videoflash>s3B9L6amPn8|425|344</videoflash>

Dev:GoogleSoC/ApplicationForm

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PaulWise: missed 2009

We missed the SoC so far. Before 2007 we didn't have an application ready in time. We signed up for the 2008 Google SoC, but didn't get accepted. We haven't signed up since then.

== Administrators and Mentors ==

Please read the [http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/ Summer of Code Mentoring HOWTO].

* [[User:Zelgadis|Konstantin Dmitriev aka Zelgadis]] (project administrator) google account: ksee.zelgadis
* [[User:dooglus|Chris Moore aka dooglus]] (chief project mentor) google account: dooglus
* [[User:Yoyobuae|Gerald Young aka Yoyobuae]] (project mentor) google account: supersayoyin
* [[User:PaulWise|Paul Wise aka pabs3]] (backup administrator and backup mentor) google account: paul.wise.soc

== Draft application ==

Questions from http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

=== About Your Organization ===

* What is your Organization's Name?
** Synfig Studio project team

* What is your Organization's Homepage?
** http://synfig.org/

* Describe your organization.
** Our team developing a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, called Synfig Studio. It designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.

* Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?
** There are lot of features what needs to be developed to make our software more powerful, stable and user-friendly. We also hope to involve more people into project development.

* Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.'''
** Unfortunately, no.

* If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
** No, however we have had lots of people suggest that we participate.

* What license does your project use?
** GNU GPL v2 or later.

* URL for your ideas page
** http://synfig.org/GoogleSoC#Ideas

* What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
** http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl

* Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
** #synfig on irc.freenode.net

* Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
** No

* Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
** Paul Wise aka pabs3 (paul.wise.soc AT gmail.com)
=== About Your Mentors ===

* What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
** Individual selected as mentor in project must have a knowledge of C/C++ and Synfig Studio program code (or its specific area). It could be easily determined from the SVN commit history (http://kibi.dyndns.org:8083/~dooglus/gitweb.pl?p=synfig;a=log). He also must be a regular on IRC and wiki (see http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/logs/ and http://synfig.org/Special:Recentchanges). Synfig Studio is an animation program, so the selected mentor should know its common animation concepts: keyframes, waypoints, layers, blend methods. Selected individuals are highly-motivated, long-standing contributors of the project.
* Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
** Chris Moore aka dooglus (dooglus AT gmail.com)
** Gerald Young aka Yoyobuae (supersayoyin AT gmail.com)
** Paul Wise aka pabs3 (paul.wise.soc AT gmail.com) - backup mentor

=== About The Program ===

* What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
** First of all our mentors will try to clearly define the final target of the project and motivate the student to make the project valuable for him as much as possible. At the beginning of work we must get from student as much alternative contact information as possible (i.e. e-mail, ICQ, Jabber, home and mobile phone, home address, website, etc.). This must minimize the likelyhood of disappearing students. If student disappears from regular contact we'll try to establish contact with him via phone or IM to find out the reason of his absence and also notify Google about disappeared student. If a student actually decides to leave, the project will likely be taken on by somebody from the community in the future (depending on the priority) or be saved for the next season.

* What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
** During the SoC we are planning to have one backup mentor. If existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period backup mentor takes place of absence mentor. Most communications are take place on IRC which logs stored on http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/logs/, so the backup mentor always could receive all information about status of student's work.

* What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
** We are require participation on public IRC channels where community discussing the directions of future development, shares their works and examples, motivates each other. There are not only developers there, but also translators and artists who uses Synfig Studio so the bar is low enough for newbie. Our community always open for any contributions, not only matter whether they're funded by SoC or not. For particular guidance, students are welcome to contact any of the IRC members, no matter whether they're funded or not.
** To involve students to process at early stages the general steps are:
*** preparing a brief plan of project implementation
*** defining milestones
*** defining "need to study" things for each milestone
** The steps taken during the program depend on the individual projects
** At the end of program project results must be summarized to provide complete view of done work and encourage students to participate in further development.

* What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
** The community is inspired by the art produced by Synfig Studio artists. We hope what during the SoC much more animations will be produced and students will be able to see results of their work not only as a piece of code or software package, but also as funny cartoons done with all great new features implemented during the study process. Our developers are always in touch with the people who uses Synfig Studio, paying much attention to their needs and feedback.

== Ideas ==

=== General ===

* UI revamp - see [[Wish list#Single_window]], [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687557&group_id=144022&atid=757419 #1687557], [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687726&group_id=144022&atid=757416 #1687726]
* [[Wish list#Collect_for_Publication]]
* [[Sound Layer]]
* SWF, SVG, etc import and or export
* Implement the Palette Browser, which is a stub in the current code
* Implement icon theming, usage of the Tango and ArtLibreSet naming schemes and draw icons for all the missing actions
* Implement a parameter system for output targets and the command-line and GUI interfaces for them.

=== Construction ===

* Easy way to link ducks to blines with mouse - see [[Linking to Blines]] and [[Wish list#Riding_ducks]]
* [[Wish list#Layer_Convert]]
* Redraw tool suggested by snapsilverlight

=== Animation ===

* Keyframe manipulation tool - see [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1904463&group_id=144022&atid=757419 #1904463]

=== Misc ===

* Most any common bug in bugzilla (if its a large implementation, or several smaller bugs)

About/de

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PaulWise: remove links to translations that don't exist

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<img src="/files/voria/yk_prologue_172.jpg" alt="Young child" align="left" />

'''Synfig ist ein mächtiges vektorbasiertes 2D-Animationssoftware-Paket, das von Anfang an mit dem Ziel entwickelt wurde, Animationen in professioneller Qualität mit wenigen Leuten und geringen Ressourcen realisieren zu können. Auch wenn es zur Zeit eine ganze Reihe von Programmen gibt, die dabei helfen sollen, 2D-Animationen effizient zu entwickeln, so kennen wir doch keines, dass Synfig das Wasser reichen kann.'''

== Hintergrund ==

[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation#Klassische_Animationstechniken 2D-Animation] ist traditionell sehr teuer, weil eine Unzahl von Bildern von Hand gezeichnet werden mussen, damit der Eindruck einer flüssigen Bewegung entsteht. Grafik- und Malsoftware unterstützen diesen ''[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweening tweening]'' genannten Prozess zwar, doch muss selbst mit ihrer Hilfe jedes einzelne Bild einer Animation von Hand gezeichnet werden.

Synfig vereinfacht diesen arbeitsaufwendigen Prozess, in dem es glatte, saubere Übergänge und Bewegungen zwischen einzelnen Bildern erzeugt, ohne dass jedes Bild von Hand gezeichnet werden musss. Auf diese Weise lassen sich Animationen höherer Qualität mit weniger Leuten schneller realisieren.

Hier kannst du mehr über die [[history|Geschichte (en)]] und [[Features|Merkmale (en)]] des Synfig-Animations-Studios lesen.

== Zitat ==

"Das war die Grundidee von Anfang an --- den Tweening-Prozess abzuschaffen. Aber das ist sicher nicht das einzige Feature, das Synfig einzigartig macht. Das Programm soll jede Phase der Produktion unterstützen können, abgesehen vom story-boarding und dem Schnitt." ([http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241 OSNews, Robert Quattlebaum])

About

2009-03-09T07:25:52Z

PaulWise: fix german link text

'''Languages:''' [[About|English]] | [[About.es|Español]] | [[About.fr|Français]] | [[About.tr|Türkçe]] | [[About.zh|简体中文]] | [[About.de|Deutsch]]

<img src="/files/voria/yk_prologue_172.jpg" alt="Young child" align="left" />

'''Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.
'''While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.'''

== Background ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation 2D Animation] has traditionally been very expensive because every frame must be drawn by hand. Even with today's digital inking and painting software, the process still relies on individuals hand-drawing each frame. This laborious task is called "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweening tweening]".

Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually. This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing art of a higher quality.

You may be interested in the [[History|history]] or [[Features|features]] of the Synfig Animation Studio.

== Quotes ==

"that was the original idea from day one---the elimination of the tweening process. But it is certainly not the only feature of Synfig that makes it unique. In addition to eliminating the tweening process, I also wanted Synfig to be used for pretty much every part of production except story-boarding and editing." (OSNews, Robert Quattlebaum) [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241]

Related Projects

2009-01-29T04:54:04Z

PaulWise: remove marketing speak for celtx

This page is for FOSS (free software and open source software) related to synfig or art in some way.

== 2D Animation ==

* [http://synfig.org/ Synfig] - vector based 2D animation (this project!)
* [http://ktoon.toonka.com/ KToon] - Pixel-based 2D animation, similar layout to ToonBoom Studio
* [http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/ pencil] - software for traditional hand-drawn animation (both vector & raster)
* [http://www.uira.org/ Uira] - Flash clone, sourceforge project closed 2008-01-13
* [http://f4l.sf.net F4L] - Flash for Linux, a Flash clone.
* [http://animata.kibu.hu/index.html Animata] -Still images bone rigged for 2D and 3D animation.

== 3D Animation ==

* [http://www.blender3d.org/ blender] - 3D modelling and animation
* [http://www.aqsis.org/ aqsis] - 3D renderer, Renderman compatible
* [http://www.k-3d.org/ k-3d] - 3D modelling, animation, rendering
* [http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net sharp3d] - Opensource version of Zbrush, integrated onto Blender
* [http://severnclaystudio.wordpress.com/bluebeard/ Pantograph] Vector renderer

== Motion Capture ==

* [http://www.tabinda.net/mocapsim/ mocapsim]
* [http://www.avimator.com/ avimator]
* And many on sf.net (search for bvh)

== Raster Image Manipulation ==

* [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] - GNU image manipulation program
** the iwrap deformation tool can create (crude) animations
** layers can be saved as animated .gif
* [http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Using_GAP/ GAP] - GIMP Animation Plugin
* [http://www.cinepaint.org/ cinepaint] - a GIMP fork used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/alchemy Alchemy] - software for sketching or drawing using a computer

== Vector Image Manipulation ==

* [http://www.inkscape.org/ inkscape] - SVG-based vector graphics, animation capability scheduled for Milestone 20 - Inkscape 0.54
* [http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about/ xaralx] - vector graphic program

== Video editing ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/256/ Freshmeat Category: Non-Linear Video Editor]
* [http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ Cinelerra] - Video editor and compositor
* [http://www.jahshaka.org/ jahshaka] - Video and film compositing, editing and special fx system
* [http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/ stopmotion] - create stop-motion movies
* [http://frameworks.polycrystal.org/ frameworks] - Stop-motion frame capture
* [http://www.diva-project.org/wiki/Main_Page DIVA] - Defunct linux video editor
* [http://www.pitivi.org pitivi] - Open source video editor.
* [http://positron.sourceforge.net positron] - Windows based NLE, last release 2006
* [http://cuisine.bigasterisk.com cuisine] - NLE, last updated 2004ish.
* [http://www.kinodv.org/ Kino] - Linux NLE
* [http://users.pandora.be/acp/kino/kinoplus.html Kino plus]- Plugins for Kino
* [http://lives.sourceforge.net Lives] - Linux NLE video editing software
* [http://avisynth3.unite-video.com/ AviSynth 3.0] - Windows and Linux video post-production, a powerful frameserver

== Lipsyncing ==

* [http://jlipsync.sourceforge.net/ jlipsync] - Java based Lip sync program. Allows users to align phoneme key frame shapes to an audio track. Output to a shot sheet or AVI file (convert the AVI to a series of PNG files and import them into Synfig for added fun!)
* [http://www.lostmarble.com/papagayo/index.shtml papagayo] python based lipsync program. Allows export to Anime studio, or contact genete to import into Synfig ;)

== Programming/API's ==

* [http://www.amanith.org amanith] - An OpenSource C++ CrossPlatform framework designed for 2d & 3d vector graphics.

== Realtime/VJ tools ==

* [http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ effectv] - Real-time video effector
* [http://freej.dyne.org/ freej] - Real-time video manipulation, available on the Dynebolic distribution.

== Utilities ==

* [http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/ Dv backup]- Utility to back up data to DV tape.
* [http://ronald.bitfreak.net/lvs/ LVS] - Video capture software for Linux, last updated 2002
* [http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ mjpegtools] - Tools for video capture and editing under linux
* [http://www.theora.org/ theora] - Video compression format
* [http://dvr.sourceforge.net DVR] - Digital video recorder, last updated 2007.

== Subtitle editors ==

* [http://www.allusion.net/bakasub/ bakasub] - Subtitling software for Linux, last updated in 1999
* [http://gsubedit.sourceforge.net/ gsubedit] - Subtitle Editor (Gnome)
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/ksubeditor/ ksubeditor] - Subtitle Editor (KDE)

== Video Players ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/128/ freshmeat] - Freshmeat video player category
* [http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/ mplayer] - Multi platform video player (windows/linux/mac)
* [http://www.xinehq.de/ xine] - Linux video player
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ vlc] - Multi platform video player (windows/linux/mac)

== Sound Editing/Recording ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/113/ Freshmeat Sound/Audio category]
* [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - Cross platform audio editing software (windows/linux) Also exports MP3's.

== Sound libraries ==

* [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ gstreamer]

== Script writing software ==

* [http://celtx.com/ CeltX] - entire pre-production process
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/scriptwriter/ Scriptwriter] - Cross platform software for writing scripts for movies/tv.
* [http://www.oskusoft.com/blyte.shtml Blyte] - Open source software (abandonware, really) script writing software.

== Other sources of software ==

* www.freshmeat.net - Open source software repository
* www.sourceforge.net - Open source software repository
* packages.debian.org - Packages for debian
* packages.ubuntu.com - packages for ubuntu
* www.rpmfind.net - packages for Redhat

== Live Distro's with Synfig ==

* [http://www.artistx.org/site2/ artistx]
* [http://ubuntustudio.org/ ubuntustudio] - releases and support like Ubuntu, compatible with the ubuntu software repositories, but geared to more creative types.

Please note, old software is perfectly fine to use :) It may not support newer hardware though.

== Information ==

* http://www.robfisher.net/video/ - Linux video information

Related Projects

2009-01-29T04:52:44Z

PaulWise: monkeyjam is not FOSS, delete it

This page is for FOSS (free software and open source software) related to synfig or art in some way.

== 2D Animation ==

* [http://synfig.org/ Synfig] - vector based 2D animation (this project!)
* [http://ktoon.toonka.com/ KToon] - Pixel-based 2D animation, similar layout to ToonBoom Studio
* [http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/ pencil] - software for traditional hand-drawn animation (both vector & raster)
* [http://www.uira.org/ Uira] - Flash clone, sourceforge project closed 2008-01-13
* [http://f4l.sf.net F4L] - Flash for Linux, a Flash clone.
* [http://animata.kibu.hu/index.html Animata] -Still images bone rigged for 2D and 3D animation.

== 3D Animation ==

* [http://www.blender3d.org/ blender] - 3D modelling and animation
* [http://www.aqsis.org/ aqsis] - 3D renderer, Renderman compatible
* [http://www.k-3d.org/ k-3d] - 3D modelling, animation, rendering
* [http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net sharp3d] - Opensource version of Zbrush, integrated onto Blender
* [http://severnclaystudio.wordpress.com/bluebeard/ Pantograph] Vector renderer

== Motion Capture ==

* [http://www.tabinda.net/mocapsim/ mocapsim]
* [http://www.avimator.com/ avimator]
* And many on sf.net (search for bvh)

== Raster Image Manipulation ==

* [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] - GNU image manipulation program
** the iwrap deformation tool can create (crude) animations
** layers can be saved as animated .gif
* [http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Using_GAP/ GAP] - GIMP Animation Plugin
* [http://www.cinepaint.org/ cinepaint] - a GIMP fork used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/alchemy Alchemy] - software for sketching or drawing using a computer

== Vector Image Manipulation ==

* [http://www.inkscape.org/ inkscape] - SVG-based vector graphics, animation capability scheduled for Milestone 20 - Inkscape 0.54
* [http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about/ xaralx] - vector graphic program

== Video editing ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/256/ Freshmeat Category: Non-Linear Video Editor]
* [http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ Cinelerra] - Video editor and compositor
* [http://www.jahshaka.org/ jahshaka] - Video and film compositing, editing and special fx system
* [http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/ stopmotion] - create stop-motion movies
* [http://frameworks.polycrystal.org/ frameworks] - Stop-motion frame capture
* [http://www.diva-project.org/wiki/Main_Page DIVA] - Defunct linux video editor
* [http://www.pitivi.org pitivi] - Open source video editor.
* [http://positron.sourceforge.net positron] - Windows based NLE, last release 2006
* [http://cuisine.bigasterisk.com cuisine] - NLE, last updated 2004ish.
* [http://www.kinodv.org/ Kino] - Linux NLE
* [http://users.pandora.be/acp/kino/kinoplus.html Kino plus]- Plugins for Kino
* [http://lives.sourceforge.net Lives] - Linux NLE video editing software
* [http://avisynth3.unite-video.com/ AviSynth 3.0] - Windows and Linux video post-production, a powerful frameserver

== Lipsyncing ==

* [http://jlipsync.sourceforge.net/ jlipsync] - Java based Lip sync program. Allows users to align phoneme key frame shapes to an audio track. Output to a shot sheet or AVI file (convert the AVI to a series of PNG files and import them into Synfig for added fun!)
* [http://www.lostmarble.com/papagayo/index.shtml papagayo] python based lipsync program. Allows export to Anime studio, or contact genete to import into Synfig ;)

== Programming/API's ==

* [http://www.amanith.org amanith] - An OpenSource C++ CrossPlatform framework designed for 2d & 3d vector graphics.

== Realtime/VJ tools ==

* [http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ effectv] - Real-time video effector
* [http://freej.dyne.org/ freej] - Real-time video manipulation, available on the Dynebolic distribution.

== Utilities ==

* [http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/ Dv backup]- Utility to back up data to DV tape.
* [http://ronald.bitfreak.net/lvs/ LVS] - Video capture software for Linux, last updated 2002
* [http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ mjpegtools] - Tools for video capture and editing under linux
* [http://www.theora.org/ theora] - Video compression format
* [http://dvr.sourceforge.net DVR] - Digital video recorder, last updated 2007.

== Subtitle editors ==

* [http://www.allusion.net/bakasub/ bakasub] - Subtitling software for Linux, last updated in 1999
* [http://gsubedit.sourceforge.net/ gsubedit] - Subtitle Editor (Gnome)
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/ksubeditor/ ksubeditor] - Subtitle Editor (KDE)

== Video Players ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/128/ freshmeat] - Freshmeat video player category
* [http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/ mplayer] - Multi platform video player (windows/linux/mac)
* [http://www.xinehq.de/ xine] - Linux video player
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ vlc] - Multi platform video player (windows/linux/mac)

== Sound Editing/Recording ==

* [http://freshmeat.net/browse/113/ Freshmeat Sound/Audio category]
* [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - Cross platform audio editing software (windows/linux) Also exports MP3's.

== Sound libraries ==

* [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ gstreamer]

== Script writing software ==

* [http://celtx.com/ CeltX] - Cross platform, multilanguaje, open source software for ´´the entire pre-production process - write scripts, storyboard scenes and sequences, develop characters, breakdown & tag elements, schedule production, and prepare detailed and informative production reports for cast and crew´´. Really stable.
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/scriptwriter/ Scriptwriter] - Cross platform software for writing scripts for movies/tv.
* [http://www.oskusoft.com/blyte.shtml Blyte] - Open source software (abandonware, really) script writing software.

== Other sources of software ==

* www.freshmeat.net - Open source software repository
* www.sourceforge.net - Open source software repository
* packages.debian.org - Packages for debian
* packages.ubuntu.com - packages for ubuntu
* www.rpmfind.net - packages for Redhat

== Live Distro's with Synfig ==

* [http://www.artistx.org/site2/ artistx]
* [http://ubuntustudio.org/ ubuntustudio] - releases and support like Ubuntu, compatible with the ubuntu software repositories, but geared to more creative types.

Please note, old software is perfectly fine to use :) It may not support newer hardware though.

== Information ==

* http://www.robfisher.net/video/ - Linux video information

Events

2009-01-28T00:57:51Z

PaulWise: a few events are now in the past

== Future events ==

Some synfig related events:

* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: May 2009 in Montreal, Canada
* [http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] and [http://akademy.kde.org/ Akademy] 2009: 3rd - 11th July 2009 in the Canary Islands
* [http://debconf.org/ DebConf9]: 16th - 31st July 2009 in Extremadura, Spain
** [[PaulWise]] will attend

Attendees should consider doing lightning or other talks about synfig and or making a report about synfig-related activities at the conferences.

== Past events ==

* [http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/ PIKSEL08]: 4th - 7th December 2008 in Bergen, Norway
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/p08_presentations.htm 2D Animation with FLOSS]" demoing Synfig and other FLOSS art tools
* [http://linux.conf.au linux.conf.au]: 19th - 24th January 2009 in Hobart, Australia
** [[PaulWise]] attended, chatted with Inkscape developers
* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: October 31th 2008 in Totoras, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]
* [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Freedom Software Day] : September 20th, 2008 in Rosario, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/rosario/en Animation with Free Software]"
* [http://www.epuel.org.ar EPUEL: Encuentro Por Una Educación Libre] (Meeting for a Free Education) : September 12th, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Attendees: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]]
* [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf8]: 2nd-17th August 2008 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
** [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://www.comic-con.org/ Comic Con]: 24-27th July 2008 in San Diego, USA
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 8-11th May 2008 in Wroclaw, Poland
** Synfig was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.synfig.user/144 invited] but no-one was able to make it.
* [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au]: January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia
** Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].

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<div style="margin-bottom:20px; margin-top:-10px;-moz-border-radius:10px; padding:5px; width:100%; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #a6d577; background: #F8EA85;">[[Main Page|English]] | [[Main Page.pl|Polski]] | [[Main Page.ru|Русский]] | [[Main Page.tr|Türkçe]] | [[Main Page.zh|简体中文]] | [[Main Page.es|Español]] | [[Main Page.fr|Français]]<br />
<div style="font-size:80%;padding-top:3px;">[[WikiTranslation.fr|Aidez à la traduction de ce site]]</div></div>

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=== L'animation dans le monde libre ===
L'animation en deux dimensions est longtemps restée l'apanage des logiciels propriétaires. Cela change avec l'introduction de Synfig, un logiciel libre et open source permetant la production d'animations de qualité cinématographique avec moins de gens et de moyens.

[[About.fr|En savoir plus sur Synfig...]]
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===De belles œuvres inspirent la communauté===

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<span>http://synfig.org/images/9/9a/Community_icon.png</span>
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La communauté Synfig est inspirée par l'art que vous produisez. Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui créent et exposent leurs œuvres, dans la [[gallery.fr|galerie]], sur [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded YouTube], [http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&q=synfig&qh=sort:time deviantART], [http://www.videoplayer.es/tag/synfig/ VideoPlayer.es], [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 Google Video], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ Flickr] et sur le web. Vous serez peut-être aussi intéressés par la lecture de quelques [[Animation Ideas.fr|idées d'animation]], la contribution à la [[DemoReel.fr|vidéo de démo]] ou [[Contact.fr|le partage de vos œuvres avec nous]].

[[Contact.fr|En savoir plus ...]]

===De belles œuvres nécessitent un bon support===

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<span>http://synfig.org/images/c/c4/Icon_support.png</span>
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Les artistes ont besoin d'informations sur le fonctionnement de Synfig, de manière a pouvoir nous inspirer avec leurs animations. Aidez à documenter l'interface de Synfig, écrivez des tutoriels, aidez les gens sur IRC, sur le forum et ailleurs.

[[Documentation.fr|En savoir plus ...]]

===De belles œuvres nécessitent un bon code===

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<span>http://synfig.org/images/2/2b/Icon_code.png</span>
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Le développement du logiciel libre et de l'open source ne serait rien sans une communauté active, alors rejoignez celle de Synfig. Nous avons besoin de personnes pour signaler les bugs, pour corriger les bugs, de développeurs, de beta-testeurs, d'artistes, et plus. Vos contributions sont les bienvenues et sont appréciées.

[[Development.fr|En savoir plus ...]]
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[http://synfig.org/News/2008-03-10 http://synfig.org/images/0/07/News.png]
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[http://synfig.org/Gallery.fr#Vid.C3.A9o_de_D.C3.A9mo http://synfig.org/images/b/b1/Movies.png]
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==== Liens divers ====

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*[[How do I|Astuces]]
*[[Tutorials]] ([[Video Tutorials|vidéos]])
*[[Categorical Help|Aide par catégorie]]
*[[FAQ.fr|FAQ]]
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*[[Meetings|Rencontres]]
*[[Releases|Versions disponibles]]
*[[Release]]
*[[Build instructions|Instructions de compilation]]
*[http://synfig.org/api/ Doc des sources]
*[http://sf.net/projects/synfig Le projet sur SF]
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*[[Roadmap]]
*[[Wish list.fr|Demandes de fonctionalités]]
*[[Software_roadmap|Buts à long terme]]
*[[GoogleSoC|Google Summer of Code]]
*[[Related Projects|Projets apparentés]]
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<img src="/files/voria/yk_prologue_172.jpg" alt="Young child" align="left" />

'''Synfig est un puissant et solide logiciel vectoriel d'animation 2D conçu à partir de zéro pour produire des films d'animation de qualité avec moins de personnes et de ressources.

'''S'il existe beaucoup d'autres programmes sur le marché facilitant la production efficace d'animation 2D, nous ne connaissons pas actuellement d'autres logiciels qui peuvent faire ce que fait le notre.'''

== Background ==

[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation L'animation 2D ] a toujours été traditionnellement très chère car chaque image devait être dessinée à la main. Aujourd'hui même avec les logiciels d'encrage et de peinture digitale, le processus revient toujours à dessiner individuellement et manuellement chaque image. Cette tâche laborieuse est appelée le "[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweening tweening]".

Synfig élimine le tweening manuel, produisant une animation douce et fluide sans que l'animateur ait à dessiner chaque image individuellement. Ceci permet de produire des animations 2D avec moins de personnes tout en produisant un art graphique de haute qualité.

Vous serez peut être intéressé par [[History.fr|l'histoire]] ou les [[Features.fr|fonctionnalités]] de Synfig Animation Studio.

== Citation ==

« Cela a été l'idée d'origine depuis le premier jour---l'élimination du tweening. Mais ce n'est sûrement pas la seule caractéristique de Synfig qui le rend si unique. En plus d'éliminer le tweening, j'ai aussi voulu que Synfig soit utilisé pendant chaque étape de la production, excepté le story-boarding et l'édition. » (OSNews, Robert Quattlebaum) [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241]

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[http://synfig.org/Releases/0.61.09-intro http://synfig.org/images/a/ac/MainBanner-06109-en.jpg]

<center><b><div style="font-size:160%; margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:20px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;">Animation in the free world</div></b></center>

<div style="font-size:120%;">Les animacions en 2D han estat molt de temps dominades pel programari propietari. Això canvia amb la introducció de Synfig, una eina de programari lliure, gratuït i de codi obert per a la producció d'animacions de característiques i qualitats cinematogràfiques.</div>

<div style="margin-bottom:20px;padding: 4px; font-size:130%; border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc;"><b><center>[[About|Learn more about Synfig...]]</center></b></div>

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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art inspires<br>the community</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/9/9a/Community_icon.png</span></div> The community is inspired by the art you produce. Thank you to all who produce the art in the [[gallery]], at [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded YouTube], [http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&q=synfig&qh=sort:time deviantART], [http://www.videoplayer.es/tag/synfig/ VideoPlayer.es], [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 Google Video], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ Flickr] and around the web. You might like to read some [[Animation Ideas|animation ideas]], contribute to the [[DemoReel|demo reel]] or [[Contact|share your work with us]].


<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Contact|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful support</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/c/c4/Icon_support.png</span></div>
Artists need information about how Synfig works in order to be able to inspire us with their animations. Help document the Synfig interface, write tutorials, help people on IRC and in the forums and more.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Documentation|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful code</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/2/2b/Icon_code.png</span></div>

Free software and open source development is nothing without an active community, so come join Synfig. We need bug fixers, general developers, bug reporters, beta testers, artists to inspire us and more. Your contributions are welcome, needed and appreciated.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Development|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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[[How do I|Tips]]<br/>
[[Tutorials]] ([[Video Tutorials|video]])<br/>
[[Categorical Help]]<br/>
[[FAQ]]<br/>

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[[Meetings]]<br>
'''[[Releases]]'''<br>
[[Release]]<br>
[[Build instructions]]<br/>
[http://synfig.org/api/ Source docs]<br>
[http://sf.net/projects/synfig Project in SF]<br>

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[[Roadmap]]<br>
'''[[Wish list]]'''<br>
[[Software_roadmap|Long-term aims]]<br>
<br>
[[GoogleSoC|Google Summer of Code]]<br/>
[[Related Projects]]<br/>

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[http://synfig.org/Releases/0.61.09-intro http://synfig.org/images/a/ac/MainBanner-06109-en.jpg]

<center><b><div style="font-size:160%; margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:20px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;">Animation in the free world</div></b></center>

<div style="font-size:120%;">Les animacions en 2D han estat molt de temps dominades pel programari propietari. Això canvia amb la introducció de Synfig, una eina de programari lliure, gratuït i de codi obert per a la producció d'animacions de característiques i qualitats cinematogràfiques.</div>

<div style="margin-bottom:20px;padding: 4px; font-size:130%; border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc;"><b><center>[[About|Learn more about Synfig...]]</center></b></div>

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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art inspires<br>the community</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/9/9a/Community_icon.png</span></div> The community is inspired by the art you produce. Thank you to all who produce the art in the [[gallery]], at [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded YouTube], [http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&q=synfig&qh=sort:time deviantART], [http://www.videoplayer.es/tag/synfig/ VideoPlayer.es], [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 Google Video], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ Flickr] and around the web. You might like to read some [[Animation Ideas|animation ideas]], contribute to the [[DemoReel|demo reel]] or [[Contact|share your work with us]].


<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Contact|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful support</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/c/c4/Icon_support.png</span></div>
Artists need information about how Synfig works in order to be able to inspire us with their animations. Help document the Synfig interface, write tutorials, help people on IRC and in the forums and more.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Documentation|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful code</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/2/2b/Icon_code.png</span></div>

Free software and open source development is nothing without an active community, so come join Synfig. We need bug fixers, general developers, bug reporters, beta testers, artists to inspire us and more. Your contributions are welcome, needed and appreciated.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Development|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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[[Tutorials]] ([[Video Tutorials|video]])<br/>
[[Categorical Help]]<br/>
[[FAQ]]<br/>

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[[Meetings]]<br>
'''[[Releases]]'''<br>
[[Release]]<br>
[[Build instructions]]<br/>
[http://synfig.org/api/ Source docs]<br>
[http://sf.net/projects/synfig Project in SF]<br>

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[[Roadmap]]<br>
'''[[Wish list]]'''<br>
[[Software_roadmap|Long-term aims]]<br>
<br>
[[GoogleSoC|Google Summer of Code]]<br/>
[[Related Projects]]<br/>

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== For Translators ==

Page with a translation must bear the name of original English page, plus languages abbreviation (two-letter language code) preceded by a '.', e.g. for About, page in Russian will be About.ru.

Advantages:
* Titles are in one language, which is good for referencing and keeping wiki documentation in order.
* It also provides a clear mapping between original and translated pages.
* It is easy to implement.

When translating pages do '''''NOT''''' move them. Simply copy the content and add it to a new page.

=== To translate the text in images ===

In [[Releases/Artwork]]this page you will find all the artwork (including editables files) of all the artwork me make for every new release of the project.

[[Styleguidelines|Here]] you can read our graphic style guidelines, where you will find help on how to create and edit the images of this site.

== What functionality I expect from Multilanguage Extension ==
* All pages named as described above.
* There must be a list of available translations for current page on top of each page. Let's call it "Page languages list". (Extension detects if page with each language code exists).
* There is a field in the [[Special:Preferences|user preferences]], called "Language" (Already exists in MediaWiki)
* Navigation improvements:
** Let's say user have Language field in preferences set to 'tr'. Then:
*** if user requests page [[Main Page]], and page [[Main Page.tr]] exists, he automatically redirected to [[Main Page.tr]].
*** if user clicks some other language in "Page languages list", then his "Language" field in preferences sets to that language, and he continues browsing, according to previous rules.
* It would be nice to have Language field set up according the browser settings automatically for new users and guests.

== Useful Links ==
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

== Possible Solutions ==

* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager
* http://www.art122-5.net/index.php/MediaWiki_Multi-language
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Internationalization_extensions

Main Page

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<center><b><div style="font-size:160%; margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:20px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;">Animation in the free world</div></b></center>

<div style="font-size:120%;">Two-dimensional animation has long been the domain of proprietary software. That changes with the introduction of Synfig, a free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.</div>

<div style="margin-bottom:20px;padding: 4px; font-size:130%; border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc;"><b><center>[[About|Learn more about Synfig...]]</center></b></div>

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[http://synfig.org/forums http://synfig.org/images/8/84/Forums.png]</td>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art inspires<br>the community</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/9/9a/Community_icon.png</span></div> The community is inspired by the art you produce. Thank you to all who produce the art in the [[gallery]], at [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded YouTube], [http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&q=synfig&qh=sort:time deviantART], [http://www.videoplayer.es/tag/synfig/ VideoPlayer.es], [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 Google Video], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ Flickr] and around the web. You might like to read some [[Animation Ideas|animation ideas]], contribute to the [[DemoReel|demo reel]] or [[Contact|share your work with us]].


<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Contact|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful support</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/c/c4/Icon_support.png</span></div>
Artists need information about how Synfig works in order to be able to inspire us with their animations. Help document the Synfig interface, write tutorials, help people on IRC and in the forums and more.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Documentation|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful code</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/2/2b/Icon_code.png</span></div>

Free software and open source development is nothing without an active community, so come join Synfig. We need bug fixers, general developers, bug reporters, beta testers, artists to inspire us and more. Your contributions are welcome, needed and appreciated.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Development|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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[[How do I|Tips]]<br/>
[[Tutorials]] ([[Video Tutorials|video]])<br/>
[[Categorical Help]]<br/>
[[FAQ]]<br/>

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[[Meetings]]<br>
'''[[Releases]]'''<br>
[[Release]]<br>
[[Build instructions]]<br/>
[http://synfig.org/api/ Source docs]<br>
[http://sf.net/projects/synfig Project in SF]<br>

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[[Roadmap]]<br>
'''[[Wish list]]'''<br>
[[Software_roadmap|Long-term aims]]<br>
<br>
[[GoogleSoC|Google Summer of Code]]<br/>
[[Related Projects]]<br/>

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Main Page.ca

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Main Page

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<div style="margin-bottom:20px; margin-top:-10px;-moz-border-radius:10px; padding:5px; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #a6d577; background: #F8EA85;">[[Main Page|English]] | [[Main Page.pl|Polski]] | [[Main Page.ru|Русский]] | [[Main Page.tr|Türkçe]] | [[Main Page.zh|简体中文]] | [[Main Page.es|Español]] | [[Main Page.fr|Français]] | [[Main Page.de|Deutsch]]<br />
<div style="font-size:80%;padding-top:3px;">[[WikiTranslation|Help to translate this site]]</div></div>

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[http://synfig.org/Releases/0.61.09-intro http://synfig.org/images/a/ac/MainBanner-06109-en.jpg]

<center><b><div style="font-size:160%; margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:20px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;">Animation in the free world</div></b></center>

<div style="font-size:120%;">Two-dimensional animation has long been the domain of proprietary software. That changes with the introduction of Synfig, a free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.</div>

<div style="margin-bottom:20px;padding: 4px; font-size:130%; border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc;"><b><center>[[About|Learn more about Synfig...]]</center></b></div>

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[http://synfig.org/Challenges http://synfig.org/images/2/22/Challenge-button-1.png]</td>
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[http://synfig.org/forums http://synfig.org/images/8/84/Forums.png]</td>
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[http://synfig.org/Gallery#Videos http://synfig.org/images/b/b1/Movies.png]</td>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art inspires<br>the community</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/9/9a/Community_icon.png</span></div> The community is inspired by the art you produce. Thank you to all who produce the art in the [[gallery]], at [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded YouTube], [http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&q=synfig&qh=sort:time deviantART], [http://www.videoplayer.es/tag/synfig/ VideoPlayer.es], [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 Google Video], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ Flickr] and around the web. You might like to read some [[Animation Ideas|animation ideas]], contribute to the [[DemoReel|demo reel]] or [[Contact|share your work with us]].


<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Contact|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful support</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/c/c4/Icon_support.png</span></div>
Artists need information about how Synfig works in order to be able to inspire us with their animations. Help document the Synfig interface, write tutorials, help people on IRC and in the forums and more.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Documentation|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-align:center; padding:4px; margin-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #030336"><b><center>Beautiful art needs<br>beautiful code</center></b></div>
<div style="float: left;"><span>http://synfig.org/images/2/2b/Icon_code.png</span></div>

Free software and open source development is nothing without an active community, so come join Synfig. We need bug fixers, general developers, bug reporters, beta testers, artists to inspire us and more. Your contributions are welcome, needed and appreciated.

<div style="padding: 4px; font-size:120%;"><b><center>[[Development|Read more...]]</center></b></div>
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<td>
[[How do I|Tips]]<br/>
[[Tutorials]] ([[Video Tutorials|video]])<br/>
[[Categorical Help]]<br/>
[[FAQ]]<br/>

</td>
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[[Meetings]]<br>
'''[[Releases]]'''<br>
[[Release]]<br>
[[Build instructions]]<br/>
[http://synfig.org/api/ Source docs]<br>
[http://sf.net/projects/synfig Project in SF]<br>

</td>
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[[Roadmap]]<br>
'''[[Wish list]]'''<br>
[[Software_roadmap|Long-term aims]]<br>
<br>
[[GoogleSoC|Google Summer of Code]]<br/>
[[Related Projects]]<br/>

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Talk:Main Page

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== New Layout ==

The new layout does look a lot better, but before deleting the old layout, can we make sure we're not losing any useful links? For example, currently the "Special:Allpages" link is only in the old layout. -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 12:27, 26 December 2007 (EST)
:We can add al that links in the left bar if you think its ok.
::Yaco

The 0.61.08 download image needs to say "Synfig Animation Studio" instead of "Synfig"
:[[User:PaulWise|pabs]] 04:27, 6 April 2008 (EDT)

I saw there's a way to remove the toolbox for un-connected people, maybe we could do that, as the links in the toolbox are only usefull to connected persons.<br>
And then, add the "Sidebar" back to the left side, with much more links in it (like, the ones from the bottom of the main page, that I even removed on the [[Main_Page.fr]]), that would be great. <br>
And have a "Topbar" page or just some fixed link for the topbar, with only "Home / About / Download / Gallery / Screenshots / Tutorials / Forums " in a smaller font, and a lighter color (not-visited pages are #2A4D66 on #030336 and they're hardly visible at 1st sight).
:[[User:Rore|Rore]] 02:49, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Upper image overlaps search bar and user menu on 1024x768 screen resolution. Tested with opera. --[[User:AkhIL|AkhIL]] 22:45, 8 April 2008 (EDT)

There's a thick black nothing between the left hand boxes and the main central page content. -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 15:31, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

I'd like to see more links in the left hand boxes - at least "all pages" should be there, and things like "people", "bugs", "press", etc from the top would be better at the side. There are too many links across the top. We should just have the most useful ones there. -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 15:31, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

[http://dooglus.rincevent.net/random/mainpage.png] shows some remaining problems:
* the border of the top image is different widths on the two sides
* the text links and search box on the right are hidden by the image
* the image text isn't readable
* the image text mis-spells "beatiful"

== Website navigation reorganization plan ==

Ok, let's begin a breakout of all that mess what we have now.

It's a shame, what synfig.org have website navigation, which confuses not only newbies, but also a community regulars. So, what could we do about that?

The main problem is the side bar, which contain too much elements scattered around almost without any logic.

* [[User:Rore|Rore]] : '''It seems you completely forgot the existence of the top bar. It has every element you talk about (Home, About, Download, Screenshot (can be changed by Gallery), Documentation, etc.)''' But as I say a few months ago, the links are too dark to be clearly visible.

It take a long time to look through all elements and to decide which one you really need. Who is read all elements at the side bar from top to bottom? No one? I guess so. So it should contain minimal count of menu elements and be as intuitive as possible.

Imagine what you are a person, who visits synfig.org for the first time. He may not ever know what Synfig is all about, so the first thing what you need is the '''[[About]]''' link.

* NOTE: Why not to place [[Screenshots]] into [[About]] page? Or maybe just place a link to screenshots to about page? It's all related...
** ''Some screenshots in the about page is definitely a good idea. The About link is the 2nd one on top, just after the home - but when links are not visited, their color is too dark to be clearly seen. [[User:Rore|Rore]] 17:14, 20 July 2008 (EDT) ''

Next, if he read about Synfig is and got interested, the next thing what potential user wants to know is what Synfig capable to do. Here comes the '''[[Gallery]]''' link.

* ANOTHER NOTE: Gallery page should be restructured and redesigned. First of all it should be splited int two sections - "Pictures" and "Videos".
** Pictures should be arranged into the table. Each picture should have caption, thumbnail, author credits, and link to the source (if possible).
** Videos also should be arranged into a single table, but one video per row. It should contain thumbnail, caption, author, short description, link to the source (if possible). Also it would be nice to have not only link to youtube version, but to downloadable oggTheora file.
*** [[User:Pxegeek|Pxegeek]] Whilst I support the use of OggTheora, I'm probably one of the few Windows users that can play them. Is MPG/MPG2 sufficiently industry standard to be allowed? I agree that avoiding WMP or QT is preferable.
*** [[User:Zelgadis|Zelgadis]] : MPG/MP2 is proprietary formats. I am not against using them, but it's better to give preference to open formats. With appropriate instructions how to play them.
** All thumbnails should be aligned by size.
** Why we have so few items at the gallery? Why "Cut the circle" is not there? The first thing we should encourage people is to publish their works on the Gallery page!

OK, inspired by all beautiful art, user wants to try ut the Synfig package. That's right, he goes to '''[[Download]]''' section.

* NOTE AGAIN: We don't need the 'Contents' at the top of Download page. It takes one third of the whole space! Why is each distribution arranged as heading? Make it a list of items! Why is License and Documentation here?
** [[User:Pxegeek|Pxegeek]] I think you answered your own question - we have contents list because each distro has its own heading. Personally, I'd like to see a separate download page for Linux, Windows & Mac, where we can talk about all the features that are specific to that OS/ binary compilation (e.g. no dv support under windows).
** [[User:Rore|Rore]] : I agree with pixelgeek, about having different pages for the 3 main OS, it will make things clearer for people. However, you can still remove the big Table Of Content at the top by adding __NO TOC__ to the page (without the space - but it's interpreted if I don't add it).

After downloading and installing Synfig, user suddenly realizes what he is not able to learn it by himself and he needs... '''[[Documentation]]'''!

After playing with synfig a little more user is makes something what he needs to show up or stucking with a problem which solution he couldn't find in documentation. Then he needs to '''[[Contact]]''' with community. And the '''[[Forums]]''' (cause many people I know don't even aware about IRC).

After all if user is also a coder and willing to implement all new features that he is missing, or just wants to contribute to code, then he will search for '''[[Development]]''' section.

What's last? Of course '''[[Get involved!]]'''

'''About, Gallery, Download, Documentation, Development, Forums, Contact, Development, Get involved''' - is the top level of the navigation hierarchy. Those pages should guide to the less general pages. I.e. [[About]] could guide to [[Screenshots]] and [[Press]], [[Documenation]] could suggest [[Manual]],[[Tutorials]] and [[Reference]]. And so on. Of course this could be not strict hierarchy - i.e. Forums could also appear as a link at the [[Community]] page. Maybe it could be nice to have some [[News]] on the [[Home]] page.

[[User:Genete|Genete]] ''I think that the main problem is that the side bar (and the top bar) are static. Most of the cool web pages changes its sidebar according to the context they are navigating on the moment. For instance if you're at home page you don't need a "home" link. I would like some sort of expandable side navigation bar that would show the main needed links according on what you're looking for in that moment. if this kind of navigation can be done I suggest something more impacting like:''

*''What is Synfig?: and its sub links: About, History, Screenshots, Features, Documentation.''
*''What Synfig can do?: Gallery Films, Video, Still, Contests.''
*''I want Synfig!: Download, Build. And a sub section per distro.''
*''Need Help!: Documentation, Forum (include direct links for each section), Contact.''
*''Want to Help?: Development, etc.''
*''(separated section) Toolbox: with all those special links.''

''The sub menus hierarchy should be expanded a level more when needed. For example for the Documentation entry.''
''And definitively remove the top bar. Ah! and make the left bar translatable!.''
* ''[[User:Zelgadis|Zelgadis]] : I thought about the dynamic sidebar, but is MediaWiki could provide this feature without installing additional extensions? Better to ask pabs3...''

That's what we placing at the left sidebar at the navigation section. Oh, dooglus asked for the "All pages" link. All that wiki stuff (All pages, Recent changes, Random Page, etc) I suggest to place at the left sidebar too, but in separate section.

About top of each page. I suggest to remove all that navigation links from top and place there a wiki edit butons - Article, Discussion, Edit, History. Cause with current design it's hard to scroll to the bottom of each page to get access to them. It'll be more friendly to place them on top.
* [[User:Pxegeek|Pxegeek]] - And they don't wrap well on narrow screens - reducing the button count there would be a Good Thing.
* [[User:Genete|Genete]] Yeah duplicate navigation bars is not a good idea.

Here I exposed my plan of improving the wiki. It could be considered as a roadmap for website development. Suggestions, opinions, oppositions? C'mon, [[People]], don't stay aside! We have a lot of content - now it's time to make it look attractive and respectable!

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Download

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<div style="margin-bottom:20px; margin-top:-10px;-moz-border-radius:10px; padding:5px; width:100%; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #a6d577; background: #F8EA85;">We are updating the download page to have the new release available on all platforms</div>

== Disclaimer ==

We are aware that there are lots of features missing in synfig. This software is under development and needs more polishing to become a mature program. Lots of bugs have been killed and now the stability of the program has increased considerably. There are some known issues than occasionally might make you frustrated. Despite this disclaimer there are proofs that the program is completely usable for professional work as demonstrated by some of the works in the [[Gallery]]. Please help us to make a better program in any of its aspects (artwork, translation, wiki improvement, tutorials, finding bugs, sending patches, etc.). We will embrace any of your proposals!.

A special thanks to [http://www.bridgetone.com/ Bridgetone] for hosting our videos and early downloads!

== Download ==

Synfig 0.61.09 is the latest release from the Synfig community. Please read the [[Releases/0.61.09|release notes]] for information about what changed.

[[#source|<img src="http://www.reactos.org/media/pictures/2007/devpack1.png"/>]] [[#windows|<img src="http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions/windows_icon.png">]] [[#macosx|<img src="http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/images/icon-macos.gif"/>]] [[#ubuntu|<img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/images/icon-ubuntu.png"/>]] [[#debian|<img src="http://www.winehq.org/images/distro/debian.png"/>]] [[#fink|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/FinkLogo.jpg/80px-FinkLogo.jpg"/>]] [[#zenwalk|<img src="http://wiki.zenwalk.org/images/thumb/d/dd/CommunityPortal.png/50px-CommunityPortal.png"/>]]
[[#gentoo|<img src="http://fillets.sourceforge.net/img/logo/gentoo.png"/>]]
[[#arch|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Archlinux_logo.svg/48px-Archlinux_logo.svg.png"/>]]
[[#pardus|<img src="http://www.acikbilgi.com/wp-content/pardus.jpg"/>]]
[[#freebsd|<img src="http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/supportedSystems/freebsd.png"/>]]
[[#opensuse|<img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png"/>]]
[[#slackware|<img src="http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackweb.jpg"/>]]
[[#fedora|<img src="https://www.inteco.es/extfrontinteco/osi/actualizacionesSW/SO/fedora_peq.png
"/>]]
[[#mandriva|<img src="http://www.mandriva.com/archives/var/mdk/storage/images/media/images/star_on_transparent_background/261440-3-eng-US/star_on_transparent_background.png">]]
[[#momonga|<img src="http://www.momonga-linux.org/img/momo_banner.png">]]

=== Licence ===

ETL, synfig and synfigstudio are [[License|licensed]] under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later.

=== Issues ===

<div id="macosx_issues"></div>
'''MacOS X''': '''''Taken offline''''', please see bug [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 1686495]. Patches and volunteers to create new packages are welcome. Until someone volunteers, you can [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|build it yourself]] or install via [[#fink|fink]].

<div id="windows_issues"></div>
'''Windows''': There are [[Security|'''security issues''']] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files.

'''Windows''': Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].

=== Releases ===

If you know of any other packages, please add them below or [[Contact|contact]] us and ask for them to be added here.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| <div id="source"></div>[[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="windows"></div>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm]
[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]
| Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="macosx"></div>[http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X]
|
| '''''Taken offline''''', has [[#macosx_issues|major issues]]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="ubuntu"></div>[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:etl etl] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and later in universe. For information on Synfig on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex see [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=277 this link].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="debian"></div>[http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://packages.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Debian 5.0 (lenny) and later in main
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fink"></div>[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]
|align="center"| [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Fink unstable
|-
|align="center"| <div id="momonga"></div>[http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Momonga Linux 5 and later
|-
|align="center"| <div id="zenwalk"></div>[http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=ETL&zversion=all etl] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-core&zversion=all synfig] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-studio&zversion=all synfigstudio]
| Available in Zenwalk extras
|-
|align="center"| <div id="gentoo"></div>[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277 etl] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278 synfig] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279 synfigstudio]
| Available in Gentoo [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ Project Sunrise]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="arch"></div>[http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=VoriaETL etl] [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=synfig synfig synfigstudio]
|Available in Arch Linux unsupported
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pardus"></div>[http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/etl.html etl] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfig.html synfig] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfigstudio.html synfigstudio]
| Available in Pardus contrib
|-
|align="center"| <div id="freebsd"></div>[http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/etl/pkg-descr etl] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/synfig/pkg-descr synfig] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/graphics/synfigstudio/pkg-descr synfigstudio]
| Available in FreeBSD ports
|-
|align="center"| <div id="mandriva"></div>[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Mandriva [http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#.2Fcontrib.2Fbackports /contrib/backports]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="opensuse"></div>[http://www.opensuse.org openSUSE]
|align="center"| [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/etl etl] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfig synfig] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://packman.links2linux.de/ PackMan]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="slackware"></div>[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware]
|align="center"| [http://slacky.eu/?searchword=synfig&option=com_search&Itemid=5 etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://slacky.eu/ Slacky.eu]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fedora"></div>[http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428567 etl] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/428568 synfig] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479527 synfigstudio]
| Available in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Red Hat Bugzilla]
|}

=== Snapshots ===

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://synfig.org/code/ETL-svn.tar.gz etl] [http://synfig.org/code/synfig-svn.tar.gz synfig] [http://synfig.org/code/synfigstudio-svn.tar.gz synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]]. Automatically updated daily from SVN.
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows XP & Vista]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://synfig.org/files/synfig-0.61.09-2167.exe synfig] [http://synfig.org/files/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2167.exe synfigstudio]
| Built occasionally by pxegeek, currently SVN 2167. Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [[Gentoo_Ebuilds#SVN_Ebuilds|etl synfig synfigstudio]]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| Fedora 8: [http://atrus.mmaa.ru/synfig/#fc etl synfig synfigstudio]<br>
Fedora 7: [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/blog/tags/download/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Built by Atrus and Zelgadis
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repositories] for feisty (svn 1513), gutsy (svn 1456), hardy (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repository] for sid (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|}

Keyboard Shortcuts (Flash)

2009-01-08T02:24:23Z

PaulWise: fix linux accel dir

=== How to have a Flash-like shortcut keys in Synfig? ===
This is how you can make a Flash-like shortcut keys in Synfig.

'''NOTE:''' You must have Synfig installed and run at least once. :D

'''1.''' Find your Synfig config file under:
''Ubuntu GNU/Linux:'' /home/{username}/.synfig/
''Windows XP:'' C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Synfig\
''Windows Vista:'' C:\Users\{username}\Synfig\
'''2.''' Open the file, named '''accelrc''', using any text editing software (GEdit, Kate, Notepad).

'''3.''' Copy the code below and paste it on the very last part of '''accelrc'''.
<code>
; misc
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//redo" "<Control>y")
; tools
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-text" "t")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-rectangle" "r")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-rotate" "<Shift>q")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-zoom" "z")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-polygon" "n")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-bline" "p")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-normal" "v")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-eyedrop" "i")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-fill" "k")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-circle" "o")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-scale" "q")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//state-gradient" "g")
; navigation
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//seek-next-frame" "period")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>//seek-prev-frame" "comma")
</code>
'''4.''' Save it, and run Synfig to test and enjoy!

=== How to restore to default settings? ===
Simply, delete '''accelrc''' and run Synfig.

Events

2008-11-20T11:33:41Z

PaulWise: yaco is going to piksel.no

== Future events ==

Some synfig related events:

* [http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/ PIKSEL08]: 4th - 7th December 2008 in Bergen, Norway
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] will do a talk called "[http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/p08_presentations.htm 2D Animation with FLOSS]" demoing Synfig and other FLOSS art tools
* [http://linux.conf.au linux.conf.au]: 19th - 24th January 2009 in Hobart, Australia
** [[PaulWise]] will attend, might do a lightning talk about Synfig
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: May 2009 in Montreal, Canada
* [http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] and [http://akademy.kde.org/ Akademy] 2009: 3rd - 11th July 2009 in the Canary Islands
* [http://debconf.org/ DebConf9]: 16th - 31st July 2009 in Extremadura, Spain
** [[PaulWise]] will attend

Attendees should consider doing lightning or other talks about synfig and or making a report about synfig-related activities at the conferences.

== Past events ==

* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: October 31th 2008 in Totoras, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]
* [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Freedom Software Day] : September 20th, 2008 in Rosario, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/rosario/en Animation with Free Software]"
* [http://www.epuel.org.ar EPUEL: Encuentro Por Una Educación Libre] (Meeting for a Free Education) : September 12th, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Attendees: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]]
* [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf8]: 2nd-17th August 2008 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
** [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://www.comic-con.org/ Comic Con]: 24-27th July 2008 in San Diego, USA
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 8-11th May 2008 in Wroclaw, Poland
** Synfig was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.synfig.user/144 invited] but no-one was able to make it.
* [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au]: January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia
** Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].

Events

2008-11-20T11:30:18Z

PaulWise: add piksel08

== Future events ==

Some synfig related events:

* [http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/ PIKSEL08]: 4th - 7th December 2008 in Bergen, Norway
** There will be a presentation entitled "[http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/p08_presentations.htm 2D Animation with FLOSS]" demoing Synfig and other FLOSS art tools
* [http://linux.conf.au linux.conf.au]: 19th - 24th January 2009 in Hobart, Australia
** [[PaulWise]] will attend, might do a lightning talk about Synfig
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: May 2009 in Montreal, Canada
* [http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] and [http://akademy.kde.org/ Akademy] 2009: 3rd - 11th July 2009 in the Canary Islands
* [http://debconf.org/ DebConf9]: 16th - 31st July 2009 in Extremadura, Spain
** [[PaulWise]] will attend

Attendees should consider doing lightning or other talks about synfig and or making a report about synfig-related activities at the conferences.

== Past events ==

* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: October 31th 2008 in Totoras, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]
* [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Freedom Software Day] : September 20th, 2008 in Rosario, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/rosario/en Animation with Free Software]"
* [http://www.epuel.org.ar EPUEL: Encuentro Por Una Educación Libre] (Meeting for a Free Education) : September 12th, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Attendees: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]]
* [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf8]: 2nd-17th August 2008 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
** [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://www.comic-con.org/ Comic Con]: 24-27th July 2008 in San Diego, USA
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 8-11th May 2008 in Wroclaw, Poland
** Synfig was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.synfig.user/144 invited] but no-one was able to make it.
* [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au]: January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia
** Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].

FAQ

2008-11-20T10:49:09Z

PaulWise: add gtk/glib

'''Languages:''' [[FAQ|English]] | [[FAQ.es|Español]] | [[FAQ.fr|Français]]

[[Category:Permalink]]

== General FAQs ==

=== Why doesn't slogger talk on the Synfig IRC channel? ===

slogger is a bot that sits in the [[Contact|Synfig IRC channel]] and stores the [[Contact|IRC logs]], not a human. It has no commands, so you won't get any response out of it either.

=== Why are the CIA in the Synfig IRC channel? ===

"CIA-28" and friends are bots that sit in the [[Contact|Synfig IRC channel]] and report whenever they detect a new commit in the subversion repository, giving the committer's name, revision number, and commit log message. The same information for recent commits can be found on [http://cia.vc/stats/project/synfig cia.vc]. [http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4832?p=Synfig ohloh.net] has similar pages of statistics.

== FAQs relating to the current Synfig release ==

Many issues are documented in the [http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757416 bug tracker] and on the [[Download|download]] page.

=== What is the status of the MacOS package? ===

Some people have [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 volunteered] to work on a pure MacOS X package for synfig, but there have not yet been any results. Currently options for using synfig on MacOS X include [[Building On Mac OS X|building it yourself]], [[Download#fink|installing packages from fink]] or installing Linux or Windows on your machine and using it there.

=== Why do imported SVG images look bad? ===

Synfig doesn't have the ability to import SVG images, it can only auto-render them to PNG with imagemagick and import those. The closest you can get to importing complex formats like SVG or XCF is to use one of the [[Converters|converters]].

=== Is there any Flash/SWF support? ===

Unfortunately not. Patches are welcome though. Please [[Contact|contact]] us to discuss your plans for adding SWF support so we can give any advice needed.

=== Procedure entry point ... could not be located? ===

If you are on Windows and it says "the procedure entry point_ZN6synfig5Color7set_hexERSs could not be located in the dynamic link library libsynfig-0.dll" that means you forgot to upgrade synfig when you upgraded synfigstudio. Due to the dependency systems on Linux you will probably not get this there unless your distro has broken packages. Be sure to install the latest version of synfig and synfigstudio.

If you get the same error but with gtk, glib, iconv.dll or libxml2.dll you should look for old versions of these DLLs in your Windows directory and rename them to iconv.dll.bak and libxm2.dll.bak etc.

=== libsynfig-0.dll was not found ===

If you get the error message "libsynfig-0.dll was not found" please check that you have synfig (as well as synfig studio) correctly installed.

<div id="Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F"></div>
=== Can I do anything to improve the stability of synfigstudio? ===

If you're running on a Hyperthreading or multi-core CPU (e.g Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading or Intel Core2 Duo or Quadcore, etc.) then you may find Synfig is more stable if you restrict it to run on only one processor.

===== How do I do this on Windows? =====

To do this on windows, start Synfig Studio, then Ctrl-Alt-Del and choose Task Manager. Select the processes tab, find synfigstudio.exe in the processes list and right click on it. Choose 'Set Affinity' and make sure only one CPU is checked. Unfortunately, this setting isn't preserved so you either have to do this manually each time you start Synfig Studio or use a tool such as the [http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/05/28/getting_more_bang_out_of_your_dual_processing_buck/index.html Tom's Hardware Guide Task Assignment Manager].

===== How do I do this on Linux? =====

On linux, you need to install schedutils.

Then run synfigstudio like this:

<pre>taskset -c 0 synfigstudio</pre>

Or if you have synfigstudio open already, run this:

<pre>taskset -p -c 0 `pgrep synfigstudio`</pre>

=== Why can't I get sound to work? ===
Synfig GUI implies that sound files can be loaded and played with the animation previews, to aid with e.g. lip synching. Synfig relies on a helper library called FMOD to handle sound. Unfortunately, it appears that this feature was not fully implemented, and the 'play' code is commented out. Windows support for sound does not even appear to have been attempted. If you need to need to synch to a soundtrack, the easiest way is to use video editing software to add the sound effects afterwards, or use an audio editor to take careful note of the audio cues, and animate the action to coincide with those timestamps.

See this page for [[Sound Layer | sound]] implementation guidelines.

=== How do I render moving pictures from Synfig under Windows ===
Rendering to AVI video from Synfig is not enabled for the Windows builds. If you're looking for a file to include on a web page, rendering to an animated gif file does work. For mpg, there are a couple of options.
* You can use the ffmpeg target to render to an mpg file.
* If you want more control over the final video file, the best solution may be to render to a sequence of png files and use a separate program, such as the command line version of ffmpeg, to assemble them to a video file. This could also allow you to incorporate an audio track in the same step.

=== I have a weird problem building from source. What's up? ===

Your copy of pkg-config probably doesn't look in the right places for .pc files. If you are installing to /usr/local, try running "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" before building or installing anything.

=== Why does only the first frame of my animation render? ===

You probably have '''Use current frame''' checked in the render dialog box.

=== Why don't I get the colors I'm expecting? ===

This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#Nonlinearity Wikipedia] article talks about how color output is non-linear, that if 0 is black and 100 is white, then 50 is only about 22 percent of the brightness of white, rather than 50% as you might expect.

In synfig there is an option (on by default) to make sure that if you ask for 50, you get 50% of the brightness of white.

In the [[Toolbox|Toolbox]] see File>Setup which would open the [[Setup Dialog|Setup Dialog]]. Then go to the Misc tab and to the Visually Linear Color Selection checkbox. If you turn that off, everything will go back to its non-linear, yet strangely comfortable and familiar mode.

=== Why doesn't the rotate tool rotate rectangles? ===
The rotate tool works on ducks. The rectangle layer works by drawing horizontal and vertical lines between the two ducks, so when the rotate tool is used with a rectangle it only rotates the ducks around the rotation point, but the lines of the rectangle are still horizontal and vertical. What you are probably looking for is the [[Layer#Rotate|Rotate Layer]]. If you have a build of Synfig SVN 1981 or later, there is a Rectangle -> Bline tool option which would allow the behaviour you might expect.

=== Tablet doesn't track as expected ===
When using some programs you may find that the mouse may not track as you would expect.
Synfig, Inkscape and Gimp are ones that I have used that will give odd tracking.
When drawing with the mouse the actual drawing is some distance from the cursor and when
you use the pen the drawing is drawn where the cursor is.
This can be easily fixed with the software that came with the tablet.

When using the tablet software that came with the graphire 4 tablet you will find
that it uses two different tracking methods for the mouse and pen and these two
tracking methods are called Mouse Mode and Pen Mode.

The Pen Mode uses absolute positioning, that means the active drawing area of the tablet
is in proportion to the whole screen. Wherever you move the pen the cursor will move
to the corresponding point on the screen, wether you drag the pen or you pick up the
pen and move it to a new location that cursor will move or jump to where the pen is.

The Mouse Mode uses a positioning system similar to a traditional mouse where you can pick up
and slide the mouse where you wish and the cursor will follow the mouse as it is moved.
It will not jump to new locations on the screen even if you pick up the mouse and place it
in a new position on the tablet, the cursor will just continue from it's last position.

In the case of the Wacom Graphire 4 tablet that I'm using in Windows XP I needed to open the
program called Pen Tablet and change the settings for the mouse.
To do this open Pen Tablet and you will see four tabs, click the tab marked Mouse and you will
find a box called Tracking with two options. One is Pen Mode and the other is Mouse Mode.
Select the Pen Mode and the mouse will now use absolute positioning.

== FAQs relating to earlier Synfig versions ==

These issues have been addressed in the current version of Synfig.

=== Why Synfig 0.61.08 doesn't work in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10? ===
Due to the incorporation if the newest GTK/GTKmm version (2.14) since Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, the old version of synfigstudio included in that linux distribution has turned not usable. Until new Ubuntu version or the adoptation of a backport into 8.04 LTS, the only way to have synfigstudio running in Ubuntu Intrepid is build the binaries from he source code. Follow the [[Build Instructions|build instructions]] or [http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=277 this thread] to do that.

=== Where did the polygon, draw and sketch tools go? ===

They are disabled by default due to problems. Instead of the polygon tool, you should use the bline tool. The draw tool was never completed, is very buggy, and frustrating to use. Since the draw tool is being disabled, then we might as well disable the sketch tool too. You can re-enable them without recompiling by setting some environment variables (you can [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/environment_variables.mspx set environment variables on windows] too). Set SYNFIG_ENABLE_POLYGON, SYNFIG_ENABLE_DRAW and SYNFIG_ENABLE_SKETCH to 1. On Linux/Unix/MacOSX this is as simple as running these commands in a terminal:

<pre>
export SYNFIG_ENABLE_POLYGON=1
export SYNFIG_ENABLE_DRAW=1
export SYNFIG_ENABLE_SKETCH=1
</pre>

Then run synfigstudio from the same terminal. You can probably find some way of getting these variables set automatically when you log in, but it depends on the distro. In Ubuntu you can put them in ~/.xprofile for example.

The polygon, draw, and sketch tools will be on by default in future releases of Synfig, from 0.61.07 onwards. They can be disabled by replacing 'ENABLE' with 'DISABLE' in the above lines.

=== Where did the width tool go? ===

It is disabled by default due to problems. Instead of the width tool, you should just modify the width ducks directly. You can re-enable it without recompiling by setting an environment variable (you can [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/environment_variables.mspx set environment variables on windows] too). Set SYNFIG_ENABLE_WIDTH to 1. On Linux/Unix/MacOSX this is as simple as running this command in a terminal:

<pre>
export SYNFIG_ENABLE_WIDTH=1
</pre>

Then run synfigstudio from the same terminal. You can probably find some way of getting this variable set automatically when you log in, but it depends on the distro. In Ubuntu you can put it in ~/.xprofile for example.

The width tool is enabled by default since [[Releases/0.61.09|Release 0.61.09]]. It can be disabled by replacing 'ENABLE' with 'DISABLE' in the above line.

=== Why doesn't walk.sif from the SVN work? ===

In the SVN repository, there's a walk cycle example, but the sif file includes features that are incompatible with the current version of Synfig. A re-worked example can be found in the [[Walk Cycle|Walk Cycle Tutorial]].

If you can look at the source code and figure out why the .sif file won't load, we'd love to have a fix.

=== What happened to my synfig toolbox? ===

If you no longer have a synfig toolbox, it means the window positions in your settings file for the toolbox got corrupted during a crash or something and your synfig toolbox is now off the screen. You should remove or edit your settings file to get it back. This bug ([http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1836848 1836848]) was fixed in SVN r1167.

This is a very common issue on Windows computers. Quick fix: delete C:\Documents and Settings\*your user name*\Synfig. You should not lose any saved work. Synfig will run fine following this fix.

=== The plant layer doesn't work/displays erratically/doesn't render. Why? ===

The plant layer should allow pictures [http://home.comcast.net/~pxegeek/synfig/plant11.JPG like this one] to be drawn, but again it had a bug that prevented if from working correctly in Synfig 0.61.06 and earlier. The bug was fixed in svn r620 and release 0.61.07

Further fixes were later added to stop it crashing when 'stem size' or 'splits' were set too high.

=== Missing icons? synfig/studio doesn't render anything? ===

You probably compiled synfig with g++ 4.1 using optimisation level 2 or higher. g++ has a bug that prevents Synfig Studio from compositing the images properly. Please recompile synfig using ./configure --enable-optimization=0 or disable optimisation and then rebuild the synfig images. The binary packages for some GNU/Linux distributions are affected by this. [http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757416 Bug] #[http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1509627 1509627]

As of svn r774, it is now OK to build with any optimization level. Also, using gcc 4.2.1 or newer it's possible to successfully build old versions of synfig with strong optimization.

=== synfigstudio can't find icons? ===

(I know they rendered fine, but they show up with red crosses everywhere).

This is #[http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1568925 1568925] that was introduced in SVN 180. Workaround is to set an environment variable at runtime like this: export SYNFIG_ROOT=/usr (or similar) or just install into /usr/local instead. Fixed in SVN r486.

=== I'm using synfigstudio on a laptop but can't draw anything using my mouse. What gives? ===

Try disabling the the touchpad from the input devices dialog. Unfortunately synfigstudio will not remember this setting so you have to do it every time you start synfigstudio.

This was fixed in [http://kibi.dyndns.org:8083/~dooglus/gitweb.pl?p=synfig;a=commitdiff;h=r487 svn r487] and so synfig 0.61.06 and newer won't have this problem.

=== Why is everything yellow? / Why are all the colors wrong? ===

This can happen when you switch between locales, due to a bug in version 0.61.05. It's fixed in the subversion repository (r228). To work around the problem, do the following: from the main window, choose File > Setup what would open the [[Setup Dialog|Setup Dialog]], then select the Gamma tab and set all 3 sliders back to the default value of 2.2.

Press

2008-11-09T02:54:38Z

PaulWise: add link from xerakko

== Articles ==

* Newsforge: [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2056255 Nathan Willis, Synfig 2D vector animation program opens source]
* Barrapunto: [http://barrapunto.com/softlibre/06/08/10/1547250.shtml Synfig: Animación 2D profesional para Linux]
* Linux.com: [http://www.linux.com/feature/115325 Synfig experiments with 2-D animation]
* LWN: [http://lwn.net/Articles/241382/ The Synfig 2D Animation package]
* debaday: [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/02/synfig-the-free-software-alternative-for-2d-animation/ Synfig: the free software alternative for 2D animation]

== Interviews ==

* [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241 OSNews interview with darco]

== Talks ==

* [[Events|LCA 2008]]: Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].
* [[Events|DebConf 2008]]: [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]

== Mentions ==

* [http://www.blendernation.com/2008/09/23/the-morevna-project/ BlenderNation article about the Morevna Project]
* [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5#77 LINUX Format magazine - hot pick in issue 77 - march 2006]
* [http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/05/31/007202.shtml Ask Slashdot - Efficient 2D Animation Software? - mentioned in the comments]
* [http://gnomejournal.org/article/38/de-forming-models-with-sharpconstruct a blog about sharpconstruct]
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/236193/ our irregular news got mentioned on LWN]
* [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92763 heated blender discussion]
* [http://lifehacker.biz/articles/best-freeware-design-software/ Best Freeware Design Software - Animation]
* [http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ 480+ Open Source Applications]
* [http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/ Top 100 of the best Open Source Applications]
* [http://www.mcye.misiones.gov.ar/content/view/106/41/ Free Alternatives:Vector animation, on the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina website (es)]
* [http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/27_69813_9.shtml Los 10 mejores softwares alternativos que ofrece internet]
== Blogs ==

* [http://del.icio.us/search/?p=synfig del.icio.us]
* [http://digg.com/search?s=synfig digg]
* [http://www.technorati.com/search/synfig technorati]
* [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=synfig google]
* [http://advogato.org/person/rmathew/diary.html?start=146 mentioned in a blog about the Narnia special effects]
* [http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1404?tag=nefd.aof CNET blog about equivalents to windows multimedia apps]
* [http://www.hoodyhoo.com/2007/08/16/creativity-in-linux-synfig/ creativity in Linux]
* [http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/07/35-cool-applications-to-install-on.html 35 cool applications to install on Linux]
* [http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/07/20/45-best-freeware-design-programs/ 45 Best Freeware Design Programs]
* [http://go.mibbit.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tatica.org%2Findex.php%2Fblog%2Fshow%2FInstalando-Synfig.html Installing Synfig in Fedora (Spanish)]

== Videos and images ==

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ flickr]
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=synfig google images]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 google video]
* [[Gallery|site gallery]]
* [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded youtube]

Download

2008-11-08T08:11:06Z

PaulWise: pixelgeek updated windows snapshots

<div style="margin-bottom:20px; margin-top:-10px;-moz-border-radius:10px; padding:5px; width:100%; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #a6d577; background: #F8EA85;">We are updating the download page to have the new release available on all platforms</div>

== Disclaimer ==

We are aware that there are lots of features missing in synfig. This software is under development and needs more polishing to become a mature program. Lots of bugs have been killed and now the stability of the program has increased considerably. There are some known issues than occasionally might make you frustrated. Despite this disclaimer there are proofs that the program is completely usable for professional work as demonstrated by some of the works in the [[Gallery]]. Please help us to make a better program in any of its aspects (artwork, translation, wiki improvement, tutorials, finding bugs, sending patches, etc.). We will embrace any of your proposals!.

A special thanks to [http://www.bridgetone.com/ Bridgetone] for hosting our videos and early downloads!

== Download ==

Synfig 0.61.09 is the latest release from the Synfig community. Please read the [[Releases/0.61.09|release notes]] for information about what changed.

[[#source|<img src="http://www.reactos.org/media/pictures/2007/devpack1.png"/>]] [[#windows|<img src="http://www.bibirmer.com/Extensions/windows_icon.png">]] [[#macosx|<img src="http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/images/icon-macos.gif"/>]] [[#ubuntu|<img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/images/icon-ubuntu.png"/>]] [[#debian|<img src="http://www.winehq.org/images/distro/debian.png"/>]] [[#fink|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/FinkLogo.jpg/80px-FinkLogo.jpg"/>]] [[#zenwalk|<img src="http://wiki.zenwalk.org/images/thumb/d/dd/CommunityPortal.png/50px-CommunityPortal.png"/>]]
[[#gentoo|<img src="http://fillets.sourceforge.net/img/logo/gentoo.png"/>]]
[[#arch|<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Archlinux_logo.svg/48px-Archlinux_logo.svg.png"/>]]
[[#pardus|<img src="http://www.acikbilgi.com/wp-content/pardus.jpg"/>]]
[[#freebsd|<img src="http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/supportedSystems/freebsd.png"/>]]
[[#opensuse|<img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png"/>]]
[[#slackware|<img src="http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackweb.jpg"/>]]
[[#fedora|<img src="https://www.inteco.es/extfrontinteco/osi/actualizacionesSW/SO/fedora_peq.png
"/>]]
[[#mandriva|<img src="http://www.mandriva.com/archives/var/mdk/storage/images/media/images/star_on_transparent_background/261440-3-eng-US/star_on_transparent_background.png">]]
[[#momonga|<img src="http://www.momonga-linux.org/img/momo_banner.png">]]

=== Licence ===

ETL, synfig and synfigstudio are [[License|licensed]] under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later.

=== Issues ===

<div id="macosx_issues"></div>
'''MacOS X''': '''''Taken offline''''', please see bug [http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1686495 1686495]. Patches and volunteers to create new packages are welcome. Until someone volunteers, you can [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|build it yourself]] or install via [[#fink|fink]].

<div id="windows_issues"></div>
'''Windows''': There are [[Security|'''security issues''']] with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets, please avoid using them to import or render untrusted files.

'''Windows''': Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for [[FAQ#Can_I_do_anything_to_improve_the_stability_of_the_Windows_version_of_Synfig.3F|workaround details]].

=== Releases ===

If you know of any other packages, please add them below or [[Contact|contact]] us and ask for them to be added here.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| <div id="source"></div>[[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198849 ETL] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=158279 synfig] [http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144022&package_id=198850 synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="windows"></div>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm]
[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfig-0.61.09.exe synfig] [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.09.exe synfigstudio]
| Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| <div id="macosx"></div>[http://www.apple.com/macosx/ MacOS X]
|
| '''''Taken offline''''', has [[#macosx_issues|major issues]]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="ubuntu"></div>[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:etl etl] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and later in universe
|-
|align="center"| <div id="debian"></div>[http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://packages.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://packages.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Debian 5.0 (lenny) and later in main
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fink"></div>[http://www.finkproject.org/ Fink]
|align="center"| [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/etl etl] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfig synfig] [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in Fink unstable
|-
|align="center"| <div id="momonga"></div>[http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Momonga&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Momonga Linux 5 and later
|-
|align="center"| <div id="zenwalk"></div>[http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=ETL&zversion=all etl] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-core&zversion=all synfig] [http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=synfig-studio&zversion=all synfigstudio]
| Available in Zenwalk extras
|-
|align="center"| <div id="gentoo"></div>[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277 etl] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278 synfig] [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279 synfigstudio]
| Available in Gentoo [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ Project Sunrise]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="arch"></div>[http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=VoriaETL etl] [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=synfig synfig synfigstudio]
|Available in Arch Linux unsupported
|-
|align="center"| <div id="pardus"></div>[http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/etl.html etl] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfig.html synfig] [http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/synfigstudio.html synfigstudio]
| Available in Pardus contrib
|-
|align="center"| <div id="freebsd"></div>[http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/etl/pkg-descr etl] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/synfig/pkg-descr synfig] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/graphics/synfigstudio/pkg-descr synfigstudio]
| Available in FreeBSD ports
|-
|align="center"| <div id="mandriva"></div>[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=etl&st=rpmname etl] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfig&st=rpmname synfig] [http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Mandriva&version=&arch=&search=synfigstudio&st=rpmname synfigstudio]
| Available in Mandriva [http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#.2Fcontrib.2Fbackports /contrib/backports]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="opensuse"></div>[http://www.opensuse.org openSUSE]
|align="center"| [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/etl etl] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfig synfig] [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/synfigstudio synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://packman.links2linux.de/ PackMan]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="slackware"></div>[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware]
|align="center"| [http://slacky.eu/?searchword=synfig&option=com_search&Itemid=5 etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Available in [http://slacky.eu/ Slacky.eu]
|-
|align="center"| <div id="fedora"></div>[http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428567 etl] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428568 synfig]
| Available in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Red Hat Bugzilla]
|}

=== Snapshots ===

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [[Source code]]
|align="center"| [http://synfig.org/code/ETL-svn.tar.gz etl] [http://synfig.org/code/synfig-svn.tar.gz synfig] [http://synfig.org/code/synfigstudio-svn.tar.gz synfigstudio]
| Please read the [[Build_instructions|build instructions]]. Automatically updated daily from SVN.
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ Windows]
|align="center"| [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe gtk] [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe gtkmm] [http://synfig.org/files/synfig-0.61.09-2167.exe synfig] [http://synfig.org/files/synfigstudio-0.61.09-2167.exe synfigstudio]
| Built occasionally by pxegeek, currently SVN 2167. Has '''''[[#windows_issues|important issues]]'''''. All four are '''''required''''', see the [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDqiRI7fwk install walkthrough video].
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]
|align="center"| [[Gentoo_Ebuilds#SVN_Ebuilds|etl synfig synfigstudio]]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| Fedora 8: [http://atrus.mmaa.ru/synfig/#fc etl synfig synfigstudio]<br>
Fedora 7: [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/blog/tags/download/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| Built by Atrus and Zelgadis
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repositories] for feisty (svn 1513), gutsy (svn 1456), hardy (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
|align="center"| [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/repository/ repository] for sid (svn 1514)
| These packages are outdated as of 2 October 2008
|}

Dev:Bugs

2008-11-08T08:05:17Z

PaulWise: move contact to the end

There are several bug trackers for synfig and synfig packages:

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022 Synfig]
|align="center"| [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757416 bugs] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757419 enhancements] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757418 patches] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757417 support]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org Debian]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://bugs.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://bugs.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/etl/+bugs etl] [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synfig/+bugs synfig] [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synfigstudio/+bugs synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://support.zenwalk.org/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fink.sf.net Fink]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=etl etl] [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=synfig synfig] [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=synfigstudio synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [https://qa.mandriva.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://developer.momonga-linux.org/kagemai/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| in Japanese
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=synfig&project=2&type%5B%5D=&sev%5B%5D=&pri%5B%5D=&due%5B%5D=&reported%5B%5D=&cat%5B%5D=&status%5B%5D=open&percent%5B%5D=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=&do=index etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=etl&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED etl] [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=synfig&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED synfig] [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=synfigstudio&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=synfig&sort=none etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|}

If synfig is available in your distribution and your distribution's bug tracker is not listed here, please add it or [[Contact|contact]] us about it.

* '''[[Test zone]]''' - Where we upload buggy files

Dev:Bugs

2008-11-08T08:04:29Z

PaulWise: clean up and add more bug trackers; momonga, gentoo, arch, pardus, freebsd, fedora

There are several bug trackers for synfig and synfig packages. If synfig is available in your distribution and your distribution's bug tracker is not listed here, please add it or [[Contact|contact]] us about it.

{|
|-
!align="center"| Type
!align="center"| Links
! Notes
|-
|align="center"| [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022 Synfig]
|align="center"| [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757416 bugs] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757419 enhancements] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757418 patches] [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=144022&atid=757417 support]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.debian.org Debian]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.debian.org/src:etl etl] [http://bugs.debian.org/src:synfig synfig] [http://bugs.debian.org/src:synfigstudio synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu]
|align="center"| [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/etl/+bugs etl] [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synfig/+bugs synfig] [http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synfigstudio/+bugs synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk]
|align="center"| [http://support.zenwalk.org/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fink.sf.net Fink]
|align="center"| [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=etl etl] [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=synfig synfig] [http://sf.net/tracker/?atid=117203&group_id=17203&summary_keyword=synfigstudio synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva]
|align="center"| [https://qa.mandriva.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.momonga-linux.org/ Momonga]
|align="center"| [http://developer.momonga-linux.org/kagemai/ etl synfig synfigstudio]
| in Japanese
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=synfig&project=2&type%5B%5D=&sev%5B%5D=&pri%5B%5D=&due%5B%5D=&reported%5B%5D=&cat%5B%5D=&status%5B%5D=open&percent%5B%5D=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=&do=index etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ Pardus]
|align="center"| [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=etl&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED etl] [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=synfig&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED synfig] [http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/buglist.cgi?product=Paketler&component=synfigstudio&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|align="center"| [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=synfig&sort=none etl synfig synfigstudio]
|-
|align="center"| [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
|align="center"| [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=synfig etl synfig synfigstudio]
|}

* '''[[Test zone]]''' - Where we upload buggy files

Press

2008-11-05T03:56:32Z

PaulWise: add Yaco's talk

== Articles ==

* Newsforge: [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2056255 Nathan Willis, Synfig 2D vector animation program opens source]
* Barrapunto: [http://barrapunto.com/softlibre/06/08/10/1547250.shtml Synfig: Animación 2D profesional para Linux]
* Linux.com: [http://www.linux.com/feature/115325 Synfig experiments with 2-D animation]
* LWN: [http://lwn.net/Articles/241382/ The Synfig 2D Animation package]
* debaday: [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/02/synfig-the-free-software-alternative-for-2d-animation/ Synfig: the free software alternative for 2D animation]

== Interviews ==

* [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241 OSNews interview with darco]

== Talks ==

* [[Events|LCA 2008]]: Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].
* [[Events|DebConf 2008]]: [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]

== Mentions ==

* [http://www.blendernation.com/2008/09/23/the-morevna-project/ BlenderNation article about the Morevna Project]
* [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5#77 LINUX Format magazine - hot pick in issue 77 - march 2006]
* [http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/05/31/007202.shtml Ask Slashdot - Efficient 2D Animation Software? - mentioned in the comments]
* [http://gnomejournal.org/article/38/de-forming-models-with-sharpconstruct a blog about sharpconstruct]
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/236193/ our irregular news got mentioned on LWN]
* [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92763 heated blender discussion]
* [http://lifehacker.biz/articles/best-freeware-design-software/ Best Freeware Design Software - Animation]
* [http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ 480+ Open Source Applications]
* [http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/ Top 100 of the best Open Source Applications]
* [http://www.mcye.misiones.gov.ar/content/view/106/41/ Free Alternatives:Vector animation, on the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina website (es)]

== Blogs ==

* [http://del.icio.us/search/?p=synfig del.icio.us]
* [http://digg.com/search?s=synfig digg]
* [http://www.technorati.com/search/synfig technorati]
* [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=synfig google]
* [http://advogato.org/person/rmathew/diary.html?start=146 mentioned in a blog about the Narnia special effects]
* [http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1404?tag=nefd.aof CNET blog about equivalents to windows multimedia apps]
* [http://www.hoodyhoo.com/2007/08/16/creativity-in-linux-synfig/ creativity in Linux]
* [http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/07/35-cool-applications-to-install-on.html 35 cool applications to install on Linux]
* [http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/07/20/45-best-freeware-design-programs/ 45 Best Freeware Design Programs]
* [http://go.mibbit.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tatica.org%2Findex.php%2Fblog%2Fshow%2FInstalando-Synfig.html Installing Synfig in Fedora (Spanish)]

== Videos and images ==

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ flickr]
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=synfig google images]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 google video]
* [[Gallery|site gallery]]
* [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded youtube]

News/Draft

2008-11-05T03:55:24Z

PaulWise: add Yaco's talk

We use this page to draft irregular news items to post on the website. If you have some synfig news that happened since the last update, please add it here. To do an update, just copy this page to News/200X-XX-XX, adjust to suit the date, add to the [[News]] and [[Main Page|Home]] pages, then please change the topic in [[Contact|the IRC channel]], post them to [[Contact|the forums]], [https://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=144022 SF.net] and send an email to lwn@lwn.net (CCed to [[Contact|the mailing lists]]) asking for them to be posted to LWN.net. Once that is done, delete the news items that were here and get ready to add more news items.

== Synfig Irregular News (Draft) ==

Add your news at the bottom!

* Windows builds now include OpenEXR version 1.6.1
* pixelgeek now adding to the code base :)
* IRC is logged by slogger too, a bot running in synfig server.
* pixelgeek has set up a bot to help people in the IRC for FAQs. It is pixelbot.
* [http://morevnaproject.org MorevnaProject] got [http://blendernation.com/2008/09/23/the-morevna-project/ mention on BlenderNation].
* Synfig [[Releases/0.61.09|0.61.09]] Released!
* darco released the source code for the [[Gallery|Werewolf animation]] under an '''educational use only''' license
* genete published an [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/02/synfig-the-free-software-alternative-for-2d-animation/ article about synfig] on debaday.
* [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk at [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT] in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]

Events

2008-11-05T03:53:52Z

PaulWise: move CoLCIT, add video of Yaco's talk

== Future events ==

Some synfig related events:

* [http://linux.conf.au linux.conf.au]: 19th - 24th January 2009 in Hobart, Australia
** [[PaulWise]] will attend, might do a lightning talk about Synfig
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: May 2009 in Montreal, Canada
* [http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] and [http://akademy.kde.org/ Akademy] 2009: 3rd - 11th July 2009 in the Canary Islands
* [http://debconf.org/ DebConf9]: 16th - 31st July 2009 in Extremadura, Spain
** [[PaulWise]] will attend

Attendees should consider doing lightning or other talks about synfig and or making a report about synfig-related activities at the conferences.

== Past events ==

* [http://colcit.org.ar/ CoLCIT 2008]: October 31th 2008 in Totoras, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk in Spanish called "Animation with Free Software" focusing on Synfig [[http://colcit.gleducar.org.ar/descargas/videos/arte_animacion_y_diseno_synfig.ogg video]]
* [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Freedom Software Day] : September 20th, 2008 in Rosario, Argentina
** [[User:Yaco|Yaco]] did a talk called "[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/rosario/en Animation with Free Software]"
* [http://www.epuel.org.ar EPUEL: Encuentro Por Una Educación Libre] (Meeting for a Free Education) : September 12th, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Attendees: [[User:Yaco|Yaco]]
* [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf8]: 2nd-17th August 2008 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
** [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]
* [http://www.comic-con.org/ Comic Con]: 24-27th July 2008 in San Diego, USA
* [http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/ Libre Graphics Meeting]: 8-11th May 2008 in Wroclaw, Poland
** Synfig was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.synfig.user/144 invited] but no-one was able to make it.
* [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au]: January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia
** Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].

Dev:Build Instructions

2008-11-02T12:27:54Z

PaulWise: fix formatting

[[Category:Building]]

== Notes ==

If you are using the released versions instead of SVN, the first 3 steps for each component are not necessary. For released versions, "./configure && make && sudo make install" should be enough.

If you are using packages for synfig's dependencies, you want the '''development packages''' not the main packages. Check below for your distribution's packages.

Please read the [[Source code|source code]] page to check out the latest code. Please also check the [[Download|download page]] and the [[FAQ]] to find out about any issues that you may run into along the way.

Some Linux/BSD distros have a pkg-config that doesn't look in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig by default. So if you are installing in anywhere other than the system pkg-config path, please run "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" or similar before building or installing anything.

Don't use automake 1.4, there are problems with it.

Using automake 1.9, 'make install' seems to re-link and re-install all the synfig core modules every time whether they have changed or not. [http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/automake.html here] is an ugly workaround - it's only worth using if you intend to rebuild synfig repeatedly

The instructions below result in 3 separate subversion working directories being created. This is inconvenient to work with - you'll need to 'svn commit' in 3 different places to send changes, 'svn update' in 3 different places to get the latest updates, etc. [[Subversion|This page]] shows how to arrange for the code to be checked out into a single working directory. You can also download a daily updated tarball that uses this from the [[Source code|source code]] page.

The CVS requirement is only because the autopoint program run by autoreconf needs CVS. You can avoid the need for CVS by disabling the translation/gettext stuff in configure.ac.

If you don't want to install to a system-wide directory using sudo, run something like these commands before starting:

<pre>
export PREFIX="$HOME/opt"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig"
export PATH="$PATH:$PREFIX/bin"
</pre>

And when you run ./configure, run it with --prefix="$PREFIX" and don't use sudo when you do make install.

=== Automatic build/update script ===

You can use [http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/files/synfig/synfigstudio-svn-build this] script to quickly build/update synfigstudio from SVN (software installed in ~/synfig-svn by default).

To use the script just execute following single command in terminal:
<pre>cd && \
wget http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/files/synfig/synfigstudio-svn-build && \
chmod +x synfigstudio-svn-build && \
./synfigstudio-svn-build initialize</pre>

'''WARNING:''' Your system must satisfy synfig's build requiments, the sript won't do it for you.

=== System-specific instructions ===

* Gentoo: SVN [[Gentoo Ebuilds|ebuilds]] are available
* MacOS X: [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X|instructions for building]] with the GTK+ Aqua port are available.
* Windows: [[Windows build instructions|instructions for building]] in [[Mingw_installation|mingw]] are available.

== ETL ==

ETL is a template library, there is nothing to build really, it just needed to be installed.

Requires: autoconf automake<br>
* Debian: build-essential autoconf automake

''Type the following commands at the directory that holds '''ETL:'''''
<pre>
$ autoreconf --install --force
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install
</pre>

== synfig ==

Requires: ETL, libxml++, libsigc++, libltdl, libtool, gettext, cvs<br>
* Debian: etl-dev libxml++2.6-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libltdl3-dev libtool gettext cvs
* Gentoo: virtual/ETL dev-cpp/libxmlpp dev-libs/libsigc++ dev-util/cvs
** If you are using ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" to configure synfig, do not install virtual/ETL.

Note: libpng isn't required to build synfig, but if you build synfig without PNG support and go on to build synfigstudio, that step will fail (because the build process for synfigstudio uses synfig to create .png icon files). The package is libpng12-dev on Debian or media-libs/libpng on Gentoo.

Optional: libpng, libmng, libjpeg, libfreetype, libfontconfig, libopenexr, libavcodec, libmagick++, vimage (MacOS only, proprietary)<br>
* Debian: libpng12-dev libmng-dev libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libopenexr-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libmagick++9-dev
* Gentoo: sys-devel/libtool media-libs/libpng media-libs/libmng media-libs/jpeg media-libs/freetype media-libs/fontconfig media-libs/openexr media-libs/libavcodec
Runtime: encodedv (from libdv), ffmpeg, convert (from imagemagick)
* Debian: libdv-bin ffmpeg imagemagick
* Gentoo: media-libs/libdv media-video/ffmpeg media-gfx/imagemagick

''Type the following commands at the directory that holds '''synfig-core:'''''
<pre>
$ libtoolize --ltdl --copy --force
$ autoreconf --install --force
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
</pre>

Notes:

* Don't use --enable-half, it is slow.

== synfigstudio ==

Requires: ETL, synfig, gtkmm >= 2.4, gtk >= 2.0, glibmm, libsigc++, libltdl, libtool, gettext, cvs<br>
* Debian: etl-dev libsynfig-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libltdl3-dev libtool gettext cvs
* Gentoo: virtual/ETL virtual/synfig dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4 dev-libs/libsigc++ sys-devel/libtool
** If you are using ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" to configure synfigstudio, do not install virtual/ETL or virtual/synfig.
Optional: fonts (for the images), [http://www.fmod.org FMOD] (version 3.x, proprietary)
* Debian: ttf-freefont ttf-dejavu ttf-dustin
* Gentoo: freefonts dejavu

''Type the following commands at the directory that holds '''synfig-studio:'''''
<pre>
$ autoreconf --install --force
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
</pre>



== finalizing ==

Depending on where you installed synfig to, you might have to tell your system where the libraries can be found. That can be done via the following command:

<pre>
$ sudo ldconfig
</pre>

News/Draft

2008-11-02T09:57:29Z

PaulWise: debaday

Press

2008-11-02T08:49:39Z

PaulWise: add debaday article

== Articles ==

* Newsforge: [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2056255 Nathan Willis, Synfig 2D vector animation program opens source]
* Barrapunto: [http://barrapunto.com/softlibre/06/08/10/1547250.shtml Synfig: Animación 2D profesional para Linux]
* Linux.com: [http://www.linux.com/feature/115325 Synfig experiments with 2-D animation]
* LWN: [http://lwn.net/Articles/241382/ The Synfig 2D Animation package]
* debaday: [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/02/synfig-the-free-software-alternative-for-2d-animation/ Synfig: the free software alternative for 2D animation]

== Interviews ==

* [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13241 OSNews interview with darco]

== Talks ==

* [[Events|LCA 2008]]: Elizabeth Garbee did a [http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=117 talk about open source animation] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.ogg video]] [[http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-117.spx audio]].
* [[Events|DebConf 2008]]: [[PaulWise|pabs]] did a lightning talk about synfig and played the DemoReel [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/831_Lightning_Talks.ogg video of lightning talks]

== Mentions ==

* [http://www.blendernation.com/2008/09/23/the-morevna-project/ BlenderNation article about the Morevna Project]
* [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5#77 LINUX Format magazine - hot pick in issue 77 - march 2006]
* [http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/05/31/007202.shtml Ask Slashdot - Efficient 2D Animation Software? - mentioned in the comments]
* [http://gnomejournal.org/article/38/de-forming-models-with-sharpconstruct a blog about sharpconstruct]
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/236193/ our irregular news got mentioned on LWN]
* [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92763 heated blender discussion]
* [http://lifehacker.biz/articles/best-freeware-design-software/ Best Freeware Design Software - Animation]
* [http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ 480+ Open Source Applications]
* [http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/ Top 100 of the best Open Source Applications]
* [http://www.mcye.misiones.gov.ar/content/view/106/41/ Free Alternatives:Vector animation, on the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina website (es)]

== Blogs ==

* [http://del.icio.us/search/?p=synfig del.icio.us]
* [http://digg.com/search?s=synfig digg]
* [http://www.technorati.com/search/synfig technorati]
* [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=synfig google]
* [http://advogato.org/person/rmathew/diary.html?start=146 mentioned in a blog about the Narnia special effects]
* [http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1404?tag=nefd.aof CNET blog about equivalents to windows multimedia apps]
* [http://www.hoodyhoo.com/2007/08/16/creativity-in-linux-synfig/ creativity in Linux]
* [http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/07/35-cool-applications-to-install-on.html 35 cool applications to install on Linux]
* [http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/07/20/45-best-freeware-design-programs/ 45 Best Freeware Design Programs]
* [http://go.mibbit.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tatica.org%2Findex.php%2Fblog%2Fshow%2FInstalando-Synfig.html Installing Synfig in Fedora (Spanish)]

== Videos and images ==

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/synfig/ flickr]
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=synfig google images]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=synfig&so=1 google video]
* [[Gallery|site gallery]]
* [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=synfig&search_sort=video_date_uploaded youtube]

Dev:Gentoo Ebuilds

2008-11-02T02:03:42Z

PaulWise: remove fmod since it doesn't work and is non-free

[[Category:Building]]

We're working on ebuild files for the Gentoo operating system here. To use this page directly with Gentoo, you need to know how Portage works. Specifically:
* Create a Portage overlay so these ebuilds won't be clobbered by an emerge sync
* Cut out each ebuild and put it in the proper place in the overlay.
* Find mistakes in the ebuilds, and post fixes here

= Release-version ebuilds in Gentoo's BugZilla =

These are also in gentoo's sunrise overlay.

'''synfig-studio''' (-> /overlay/media-gfx/synfig-studio)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111279

'''synfig''' (-> /overlay/media-gfx/synfig)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111278

'''ETL''' (-> /overlay/dev-cpp/ETL)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111277

= Short howto =

Please check this [http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds Howto Install 3rd Party Ebuilds] first

1. make digests in your '''overlay''' directory i.e.:
'''ebuild''' /overlay/media-gfx/synfig-studio/synfig-studio-0.61.05.ebuild '''digest'''
...

2. this goes in the '''/etc/portage/package.use'''
media-gfx/synfig ffmpeg freetype imagemagick libdv openexr

3. emerge -av synfig-studio

= SVN Ebuilds =

== dev-cpp/ETL-svn ==

<pre>
DESCRIPTION="ETL is a multiplatform class and template library designed to
complement and supplement the C++ STL. (SVN-sources)"
HOMEPAGE="http://synfig.org/"
SRC_URI=""

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""

PROVIDE="virtual/ETL"

ESVN_REPO_URI="https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/ETL/trunk/"
ESVN_PROJECT="${PN}"

inherit eutils
inherit subversion

src_compile() {
autoreconf -if
econf || die
}

src_install() {
make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
}
</pre>

== media-gfx/synfig-svn ==

<pre>
DESCRIPTION="Synfig: Film-Quality Vector Animation (core engine, SVN-sources)"
HOMEPAGE="http://synfig.org/"
SRC_URI=""

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE="tiff jpeg png freetype fontconfig openexr ffmpeg debug"

DEPEND="dev-cpp/libxmlpp
dev-libs/libsigc++
sys-devel/libtool
dev-util/cvs
png? ( media-libs/libpng )
tiff? ( media-libs/tiff )
jpeg? ( media-libs/jpeg )
imagemagick? ( media-gfx/imagemagick )
freetype? ( media-libs/freetype )
fontconfig? ( media-libs/fontconfig )
openexr? ( media-libs/openexr )
ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg )

virtual/ETL"

PROVIDE="virtual/synfig"

ESVN_REPO_URI="https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/synfig-core/trunk"
ESVN_PROJECT="${PN}"

inherit subversion

src_compile() {
libtoolize --ltdl --copy -f
autoreconf -if
econf \
$(use_enable ffmpeg) \
$(use_enable libdv) \
$(use_enable imagemagick) \
$(use_enable ffmpeg libavcodec) \
$(use_enable freetype) \
$(use_enable debug) \
|| die
emake || die
}

src_install() {
make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
}
</pre>

== media-gfx/synfig-studio-svn ==

<pre>
DESCRIPTION="Synfig: Film-Quality Vector Animation (main UI, SVN-sources)"
HOMEPAGE="http://synfig.org/"
SRC_URI=""

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=">=dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4
virtual/synfig
!media-gfx/synfig-studio"

ESVN_REPO_URI="https://synfig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synfig/synfig-studio/trunk"
ESVN_PROJECT="${PN}"

inherit subversion

src_compile() {
autoreconf -if
econf || die
emake || die
}

src_install() {
make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
}
</pre>