Art and Design Directory

Tools and utilities for art and design use on the Acorn platform.

In ART_DESIGN/IMAGING:

BMPSprite 1.03 (Darren Salt, freeware, 12k zip)
A program to convert Windows .BMP files to Acorn spritefiles.
DrawMerge 1.03 (Darren Salt, freeware, 5k zip)
This program takes path objects from Draw and merges them.
DrawShape 1.06 (Darren Salt, freeware, 12k zip)
This program takes path objects from Draw and moulds them to fit between two other paths.
DrawZerr 1.10 (Andreas Feldner, freeware, 46k zip)
A program to allow transformation of draw files using arbitrary mathematical equations.
MakeThumb Demo 2.00 (Robert Gast, shareware, 17k zip)
This utility creates thumbnail images. The full version gives you unlimited author support, among other things.
MergeSprs 0.01 (Darren Salt, freeware, 23k zip)
This utility allows the merging of two images of the same size.
Palette256 (Andrew Sollors, freeware, 24k archive)
This utility programs the VIDC20 palette when in 256 entry mode to a selection of predefined palettes.
Sprite2PNG 0.04a (Darren Salt, freeware, 43k zip)
This utility converts Acorn sprites into PNG files.
Stereogram 2.1 (Florent de Dinechin, freeware, 47k zip)
A stereogram generator.
Widget (Andrew Sollors, freeware, 225k zip)
An image processing package for square pixel 8 and 16-bit greylevel and 24bit colour images.

Atlanta 2.56 (David McCormack, shareware, 177k zips)
An enhanced font manager to supercede the standard Acorn font manager.
CharEd 2.07 (Darren Salt, freeware, 30k zip)
A system font designer.
FontMsgs 1.04a (Darren Salt, freeware, 12k zip)
A handy utility to speed up the access time of font scanning.
FontPrevw 1.1 (John Paul Stanford, freeware, 17k zip)
A simple program to allow you to view all the different fonts on your system at different sizes so you can have a good idea of its appearance.