Smith & Tinker's Technology | Balloonist v2.0

Smith

Tinker's

— Quality Technology since 2004 —

awesome comics software! DOWNLOAD

A sophisticated comics word balloon editor and panel layout application for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux & more. Production-quality comics layout has never been so easy!

You can throw out your rulers and lettering guides. With Balloonist v2.0, you can add balloons, starbursts, narrations, and images, all of which can be dynamicly moved and resized while maintaining perfect text alignment. Control balloon rectangularness! Control stem curvature! It's all here!

Share & Enjoy the source code, on github

Additional Features:

Vertically orient Japanese & Chinese text
Spread text across merged, tied & skewered ovals
Support for Explicit Line Breaks
Outputs to Acrobat PDF, SVG, and the Clipboard for high-quality export to other illustration software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Full Undo support
Gouache tool to replace text in existing comics
Works with scanned-in fonts generated by programs like FontLab and TypeTool
Variable balloon text margins
Variable Zoom and Scaled Image Export
Control font styles & drawing colors
Drag 'n Drop-enabled Object Hiearchy tree
Instantly fit panels to a page
Move the gutters between panels!
Exquisite levels of control over ruffles, prongs and stems
Vary the rectangularness of Ruffled Ovals and Starbursts

For more information, read the product manual online, or see the answers to frequently-asked questions.

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System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The Mac OS X version is a Universal Binary and supports both PowerPC and Intel processors.

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Windows, Linux or Solaris with Java 1.4 or later, which often comes pre-installed. For more information, please consult the product manual.

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