[Tuxpaint-users] Kid Pix templates - anyone have any?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

A school contacted me yesterday saying that they're forced to move
away from Kid Pix, since they're switching their computer lab to
thin clients, which Kid Pix apparently can't work on.  They're looking
at Tux Paint, but wanted to make sure they can keep using the templates
they had made in Kid Pix.

Knowing nothing about Kid Pix, I asked them what the templates in Kid Pix do,
and it sounds a lot like "Starters" in Tux Paint.  I searched the web a
little to see if I could find examples of templates, but mostly found
"Error 404: Page not found", and some small GIF files.

I asked the teacher if she could send me some example templates, and
she sent along some files with the extension ".kpx".  Examining them,
I discovered they're just JPEGs with some extra wrapper info and
a thumbnail -- at least, the one's she sent.

I was wondering if anyone out here on 'tuxpaint-users' has any Kid Pix
templates they'd be willing to share, so I can take a peek and see if there's
any variation in what they look like on the inside.

In the meantime, based on the four or five KPX files that this teacher sent,
I was able to add KPX support to Tux Paint's "Starters" feature, which will
be available in the next release!  (Which won't be any time soon.)

I've also asked around for a stop-gap solution: a way for this school to,
on Windows, extract the JPEGs from inside their KPXs files and convert
them to PNGs for Tux Paint.  (If anyone here has some technical skill on
Windows and would like to help, let me know!)

-- 
-bill!
Sent from my computer