Pencil turns Firefox 3 into a sketching tool

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http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

* Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping

* Multi-page document with background page

* On-screen text editing with rich-text supports

* PNG rasterizing

* Undo/redo supports

* Installing user-defined stencils

* Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...

* Cross-platforms

* Adding external objects

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What does this thing do? even the website is not clear about it... or I must be too tired to understand...
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping

Multi-page document with background page

On-screen text editing with rich-text supports

PNG rasterizing

Undo/redo supports

Installing user-defined stencils

Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...

well, yea, I guess their first mission should be to write a description of their unique mission without so many techie terms so that everyone can understand ;)

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What does this thing do? even the website is not clear about it... or I must be too tired to understand...
well, yea, I guess their first mission should be to write a description of their unique mission without so many techie terms so that everyone can understand ;)

I could be wrong, but it seems like some sort of a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

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