AzPainter

Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Azel azelpg@gmail.com

http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/linux/azpainter.html

AzPainter is mainly full color painting software for illustration drawing.

Reviews

• in English
  • https://azworldweb.wordpress.com
• in Brazilian Portuguese
  • https://aznosekai.wordpress.com
• in Russian
  • http://zenway.ru/page/azpainter

Packaging status

Currently packages & build instructions available only for Unix-like OS:

• BSD-based
• Linux-based
• macOS

All available packages listed on wiki-page.

AppImage (master)

NOTE: Continuous AppImage-builds not yet usable & used only for testing purpose!

Code status

Operating environment

• X Window System (X11R6 or later)
  • (X11R 7.5 or later when you want to recognize pen pressure)
• Unix-like OS (BSD-based, Linux-based, macOS, etc.)

NOTE! MS Windows OS is not supported officially, but you could try compile & run AzPainter using Cygwin/X or Xming tools. Details on wiki-page.

What you need to compile

• gcc
• make
• automake
• Xlib (libX11)
• Xext (libXext)
• XInput2 (libXi)
• freetype2 (libfreetype)
• fontconfig (libfontconfig)
• zlib
• libpng
• libjpeg

Required packages in each distribution

• Debian/Ubuntu

  gcc make automake libx11-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev
  

  • Debian 9.0 / Ubuntu 16.10 or later

    libpng-dev
    

  • before Debian 8.0 / Ubuntu 16.04

    libpng12-dev
    

• RedHat

  gcc make automake libX11-devel libXext-devel libXi-devel libfreetype6-devel libfontconfig-devel zlib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel
  

• Arch Linux

  Generally already it has been installed.

Compile and install

Download & unpack tarball of latest sources release.

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install-strip

It will be installed in the /usr/local by default.

When ./configure to specify at the options, you can change the settings.

Install to /usr

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr

If you can not find the header files of freetype

Please specify the location of the header files in the --with-freetype-dir option property:

$ ./configure --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2

Setting files

~/.azpainter

How to use

Shortcut to the "graphics" category of the main menu of the desktop has been created, you can start from there.

If you want to start from the terminal, you can start with the following command.

$ azpainter