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

[Gloria T. W. <glo...@be...>]

Bill, you are a fine human being.
Gloria

On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

>
> 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
>
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