Pencil turns Firefox 3 into a sketching tool

[CoolCatBad]

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

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

What does this thing do? even the website is not clear about it... or I must be too tired to understand...

[wellofsouls]

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 ;)

[primexx]

wtf they actually built a full-fledged app off a browser?!?! why not take the gecko engine and make a self-contained package???

[C++]

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.

[wellofsouls]

I dunno, to me it sounds like something akin to Microsoft's Expression Blend UI builder, but then I'm not sure neither... :huh:

[CoolCatBad]

I'm not sure what to call it either, but it's only a 400 kb extension. Try it.