Leonardo for Mac and Linux

[miriam_e]

My talented friends Morgan and Tim sent this message out to me and others. I'm passing it on here because I think Leonardo is an amazing product. It is a full-featured vector graphics editor for the little PalmOS computers. It also has a desktop program that lets you print and manipulate the vector graphics files on your main computer. The Windows desktop version is complete already.

This is a call for Mac or Linux (x86 only) beta testers for Leonardo's Workshop. If you are interested please let us know what system you have e.g. whether you have OS 10 or what flavour Linux you are running. Thanks heaps in advance!

You can email Morgan at <morgan@wirejunkie.com>

Comments

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

Of course this is all completely foreign to me, but I have several "friends" who are into such things. (I think) I know at least one is a Mac user.

I can also post this in my LJ if you would like. Just let me know.

BTW - more Shadows in the next few days. I'm up to chapter 20 something in writing. :D

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It would be great to spread the word far and wide about Leonardo. Morgan and Tim have invested so much time and effort into this ingenious program they really deserve to do well out of it.

Vector graphics simply means that it is a picture editor that uses geometric objects instead of pixels to represent images. This means that if you draw something on the little 2 inch x 2 inch Palm screen you can print it up at enormous size and the circles are still perfectly round instead of jagged things.

Using Leonardo I created a picture of Leonardo da Vinci holding a futuristic Palm computer of my own design. He is standing in a room resembling where he used to live in France, and the Palm he is holding has a picture of a woman on its screen. She is modeled after one of Leonardo's own paintings.

If the entire picture was printed up so that the picture of the woman was 2 inches x 2 inches, then the whole thing would be about the size of a large livingroom wall. All this created in a tiny Palm computer and with a filesize of only 33Kb.

This is an astonishing capability.