
Pencil Project
Single-user mockup / wireframing / diagramming tool
What is Pencil Project?
Pencil is a standalone app that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features.
The Pencil Projects unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Top features: Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping Multi-page document with background page Inter-page linkings! On-screen text editing with rich-text supports Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF. Undo/redo supports Installing user-defined stencils and templates Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating... Cross-platforms Adding external objects Personal Collection Clipart Browser And much more...
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Supported Languages
- English
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- Diagram Editor
- electron
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Tried to install on Mavericks, it wouldn't open and just crashed. Sad
Big new update v3.1 was just published on New Year's day, first one since 2019! https://github.com/evolus/pencil/blob/master/RELEASE/RELEASE-NOTE-311.md
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TLDR; the program is nice if you like spending hours coding shadows and round corners onto your rectangles.
Free and open source, save any group of objects as a template, link together objects and screens to create quick wireframe prototypes, and it has an open source model for icon sets/UI elements. What's not to love.
First of all, "official website" link is wrong. I wanted to update it but there are already pending changes.
Correct link is: http://pencil.evolus.vn/
Order of events:
Chap that forked should have changed the name and restarted version numbers not to confuse anyone.
I've tested 3.0 beta 2 and it works well in portable mode (installs in user local data) and doesn't need admin access. Save, open, export functionality works well even with multiple pages. You can't copy/paste out of it as it uses own XML data format. To integrate to other tools you must export (to PNG). I use it for quick sketches. When necessity calls for quality and precise drawings, I use LibreOffice Draw and GIMP.
Few bad things about 3.0 beta 2 is that install is super silent and quick because it doesn't meed permissions, so there is no uninstaller. In local user folder program/data is stored in ".pencil", "AppData\Local\Pencil" and "AppData\Roaming\Pencil". Shortcuts to be manually deleted as well.
[Edited by nikolakovaevi, July 15]
Does pencil evolus support right to left languages?! Can we change the direction of the shapes, tables to be from right to left?!
This is not a support site for products. I've personally tried RTL functionality in Pencil and seems fine to me. If you want to provide developer feedback I suggest you go to their site.
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apt-get install iceweasel first. Then install the deb with
dpkg -i package.deb
[Edited by thesavo, January 16]
This seems more like a comment that an actual review, maybe a mod can move it over.
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