What Is It? | Instructions | Possible Errors | Future Versions | Making Animations

| # Cartoon Editor ### v1.453 © 2003 by Jeremy Wood ... a freeware graphics utility for the Macintosh to create pictures and simple animations

Depending on the OS you're running, the Cartoon Editor may launch simply by double-clicking it. If this fails, you can open it through a terminal with the command: `java -jar editor.jar`

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The Cartoon Editor is a simple tool to create QuickTime movies, digital video, or frames of an animation. Built on top of Java2D, it offers transparencies, gradients, styled text, splined curves, vector-based animation, and many many more big words. |

### 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.

My sincere thanks to the following parties for providing their publicly available libraries. For more information about these freely available libraries, either search online or feel free to contact me for download information:

- J. M. G. Elliott for his Gif89Encoder (based on the earlier encoder provided by Acme.com)
- ImagiWare.com for their color reduction algorithm.
- J. David Eisenberg for providing the PngEncoder libraries that enable PNG and MNG support.

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.

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.