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Aseprite

Introduction

Aseprite is a program to create animated sprites. Its main features are:

• Sprites are composed of layers & frames as separated concepts.
• Support for color profiles and different color modes: RGBA, Indexed (palettes up to 256 colors), Grayscale.
• Animation facilities, with real-time preview and onion skinning.
• Export/import animations to/from sprite sheets, GIF files, or sequence of PNG files (and FLC, FLI, JPG, BMP, PCX, TGA).
• Multiple editors support.
• Layer groups for organizing your work, and reference layers for rotoscoping.
• Pixel-art specific tools like Pixel Perfect freehand mode, Shading ink, Custom Brushes, Outlines, Wide Pixels, etc.
• Other special drawing tools like Pressure sensitivity, Symmetry Tool, Stroke and Fill selection, Gradients.
• Tiled mode useful to draw patterns and textures.
• Transform multiple frames/layers at the same time.
• Lua scripting capabilities.
• CLI - Command Line Interface to automatize tasks.
• Quick Reference / Cheat Sheet keyboard shortcuts (customizable keys and mouse wheel).
• Reopen closed files and recover data in case of crash.
• Undo/Redo for every operation and support for non-linear undo.
• More features & tips

Issues

There is a list of Known Issues (things to be fixed or that aren't yet implemented).

If you found a bug or have a new idea/feature for the program, you can report them.

Support

You can ask for help in:

• Aseprite Community
• Aseprite Discord Server
• Official support: [email protected]
• Social networks and community-driven places: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.

Authors

Aseprite is being developed by Igara Studio:

• David Capello
• Gaspar Capello
• Martín Capello

Credits

The default Aseprite theme was introduced in v0.8, created by:

• Ilija Melentijevic

A modified dark version of this theme introduced in v1.3-beta1 was created by:

• Nicolas Desilets
• David Capello

Aseprite includes color palettes created by:

• Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager, 16 colors, 32 colors.
• Arne Niklas Jansson, 16 colors, 32 colors.
• ENDESGA Studios, EDG16 and EDG32, and other palettes.
• Hyohnoo Games, mail24 palette.
• Davit Masia, matriax8c palette.
• Javier Guerrero, nyx8 palette.
• Adigun A. Polack, AAP-64, AAP-Splendor128, SimpleJPC-16, and AAP-Micro12 palette.
• PineTreePizza, Rosy-42 palette.

It tries to replicate some pixel-art algorithms:

• RotSprite by Xenowhirl.
• Pixel perfect drawing algorithm by Sébastien Bénard and Carduus.

Thanks to third-party open source projects, to contributors, and all the people who have contributed ideas, patches, bugs report, feature requests, donations, and help us to develop Aseprite.

License

This program is distributed under three different licenses:

1. Source code and official releases/binaries are distributed under our End-User License Agreement for Aseprite (EULA). Please check that there are modules/libraries in the source code that are distributed under the MIT license (e.g. laf, clip, undo, observable, ui, etc.).
2. You can request a special educational license in case you are a teacher in an educational institution and want to use Aseprite in your classroom (in-situ).
3. Steam releases are distributed under the terms of the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

You can get more information about Aseprite license in the FAQ.

freetype2's Issues

undefiened reference error when compiling c++ file which includes freetype

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to compile freetype2.5 on ubuntu 20.04 LTS (virtual machine), so that I can use it to compile a c++ script. where I'm facing lot's of errors.

Firstly, I've followed the following instructions to compile freetype2:
https://github.com/metafloor/bwip-js/wiki/Compiling-FreeType

I'm trying to run the following script:
https://gist.github.com/jokertarot/7583938

the errors which I'm getting are the following, they're all 'undefined reference to '####'';

1 . undefined reference to `FT_New_Face'
2 . undefined reference to `FT_Done_Face'
3 . undefined reference to `FT_Get_Char_Index'
4 . undefined reference to `FT_Load_Glyph'|
5 . undefined reference to `FT_Render_Glyph'|
6 . undefined reference to `FT_Load_Sfnt_Table'|
7 . undefined reference to `FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes'|
8 . undefined reference to `FT_Select_Size'|
9 . undefined reference to `png_create_write_struct'|
10. undefined reference to `png_create_info_struct'|
11. undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'|
12. undefined reference to `png_set_IHDR'|
13. undefined reference to `png_init_io'|
14. undefined reference to `png_malloc'|
15. undefined reference to `png_malloc'|
16. undefined reference to `png_set_rows'|
17. undefined reference to `png_write_png'|
18. undefined reference to `png_free'|
19. undefined reference to `png_free'|
20. undefined reference to `png_destroy_write_struct'|
21. undefined reference to `FT_Init_FreeType'|
22. undefined reference to `FT_Done_FreeType'|

The freetype library which I'm including to the gcc is located under the following path on my linux machine:
/usr/include/freetype2

My questions are:

1. Did I compile freetype2 correctly? if not, how should I compile it correctly, can you please provide me with the correct instructions?
2. might the problem be that I am not including the freetype library correctly to the compiler(gcc)?
3. and for people who's familiar and experienced with freetype, can you provide me with clear instructions to follow while compiling it?

I've searched a lot for a solution, unfortunately, I didn't find anything in regard.
any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you!

Unable to find freetype-config after downloading and compiling freetype2

Hello I downloaded freetype-2.11.1.tar.gz from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/. I compiled it using ./configure && make && make install. I can't find freetype-config in my path. I'm thinking it is in a different location. Thanks.

freetype2.pc contains wrong version 2.10.0

I am trying to build libass(for mpv), and I get the following error:

configure: error: Package requirements (harfbuzz >= 1.2.3) were not met:

Package 'harfbuzz' requires 'freetype2 >= 12.0.6' but version of freetype2 is 2.10.0
You may find new versions of FreeType 2 at https://freetype.org

The docs/VERSIONS.TXT says this about versioning:

For each new  public release of FreeType 2, there  are generally *three*
distinct `version' numbers to consider:

  * The official FreeType 2 release number, like 2.3.1 or 2.4.10.

  * The libtool (and  Unix) specific version number,  like 13.0.7.  This
    is what `freetype-config --version' returns.

  * The platform-specific  shared object  number, used for  example when
    the library is installed as `/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.7.1'.

But the generated freetype2.pc contains the following:

Name: FreeType 2
URL: https://freetype.org
Description: A free, high-quality, and portable font engine.
Version: 2.10.0
Requires:
Requires.private: zlib, bzip2, libpng, harfbuzz
Libs: -L${libdir} -lfreetype
Libs.private: 
Cflags: -I${includedir}/freetype2

however it should contain 13.0.7+ version according to the documentation.

I am building freetype with the following CMake statement:

ExternalProject_Add(
        freetype2
        DEPENDS           HarfBuzz
        GIT_REPOSITORY    https://github.com/aseprite/freetype2.git
        GIT_TAG           VER-2-10-0
        CMAKE_ARGS        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${ROOT_PATH} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${ROOT_PATH}

        BUILD_ALWAYS      OFF
        BUILD_IN_SOURCE   OFF)

It is not up-to-date

@aseprite, @stream-labs: It is not up-to-date:

• https://freetype.org/

2.11.1 at this time.

Does Not Compile With Hazbuff

I am having issues compiling ffmpeg with libfreetype with this commmand on windows MSYS2:

./configure     --pkg-config-flags="--static" --enable-libvpl  --enable-libopenh264     
--enable-version3  --enable-libfreetype    --enable-libopus     --enable-libvpx     --enable-libvorbis     
--enable-libaom     --enable-libdav1d     --disable-gpl     --disable-w32threads     --enable-pthreads     
--disable-shared     --enable-static     
--extra-cflags='--static'   --extra-cflags="-I/mingw64/include -static"   --extra-ldflags="-L/mingw64/lib -static" --prefix="/home/compiled"

I keep getting this error:

ERROR: freetype2 not found using pkg-config

If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
[email protected] mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.libera.chat.
Include the log file "ffbuild/config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solve the problem.

I've installed freetype with this command:

 pacman -Ss mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype

I've also tried compiling freetype2 from the source:

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/freetype/freetype2.git

cd freetype2

mkdir build && cd build

/mingw64/bin/cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64

make

make install

And pkg-config gives this:

pkg-config freetype2 --cflags --libs
-IC:/msys64/mingw64/include/freetype2 -IC:/msys64/mingw64/include/harfbuzz -IC:/msys64/mingw64/include/glib-2.0 -IC:/msys64/mingw64/lib/glib-2.0/include -IC:/msys64/mingw64/include/libpng16 -lfreetype

I can confirm the package is there:

ls /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc

My logs are giving this erro:

C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: 
C:/msys64/mingw64/lib\libfreetype.a(src_autofit_autofit.c.obj):(.text+0x7cfc): undefined reference to `hb_buffer_destroy'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ERROR: freetype2 not found using pkg-config

Compilubf will work if I compile freetype without harfbuzz.

Changes post 2.9.1 release are not mirrored

The mirroring of the original repository seems to not be active anymore. Is this something that can be rectified?