Cartoon Editor v1.4.4 © 2003 by Jeremy Wood   ... a freeware graphics utility for the Macintosh to create pictures and simple animations

The Cartoon Editor is a simple tool to create animated gifs, QuickTime movies, or digital video. Built on top of Java2D, it offers transparencies, gradients, styled text, splined curves, vector-based animation, and many many more big words. All sorts of great changes are constantly being added: the text actually works now, the gif animation supports Lempel-Ziv* compression and minimal-bounding* compression (and note that this, too, also works now!), and movies can now be exported as .avi movie files! Originally that ended with a ".", but for marketing reasons I decided a "!" was much more appropriate, don't you think? * I told you there were lots of big words! Let me know if you need more; I'll see what I can do.

Contact Information:

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or problems with this program. I can't emphasize enough how much I appreciate feedback! The best way for this program to improve is for you to let me know what features you like, dislike, or see lacking. I've received some encouraging emails lately, and I look forward to further feedback as more features are added.

That said, please write me at: mickleness@yahoo.com

Legal Information:

QuickTime is a registered trademark of Apple Computer. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems.

Many thanks to J. M. G. Elliott for his Gif89Encoder (to allow animation), and to Acme.com and ImagiWare.com for the contributions mentioned below.

This program uses software generously provided by Acme labs. Below is the relevant copyright & permission notice:

GifEncoder © 1996 by Jef Poskanzer. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Visit the ACME Labs Java page for up-to-date versions of this and other fine Java utilities: http://www.acme.com/java/

Also this program uses ImageMagick's Color Reduction Algorithm. Below is the relevant copyright & permission notice:

Image Reduction Algorithm © 1995 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyrighit notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. E. I. du Pont and Company makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, in no even shall E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damanges or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.

Finally, re-read the large section beginning, "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY..." this time pretending I wrote it. That is to say, the above disclaimer pertains also to my software.