EC-Paint

EC Paint hails from Norway and has a host of features not normally associated with mono art packages, the ability to load colour pictures being just one. In this case, you are given extensive (but easy to use) control over the dithering process. It loads IMG, PCX, TIF, IFF, CRG, BMP, MSP, MAC, PAC, DOO, GEM, EPS, NEO, TN?, PI? & PC? formats and saves back using about a dozen of those formats. EC Paint easily accommodates images larger than the physical screen area. You can use Calamus, GEM or system fonts for text input, although Calamus fonts give best results. As well as the usual line, point, box, circle, polygon, airbrush, mirror and magnify tools, you can create circle segments, 3D wireframe boxes, 3D wireframe polygons, ellipses, arcs, elliptical arcs, parallelograms, bezier curves and b-spline curves. A number of different fills are supplied or you can design your own with the built-in fill designer. Block handling is extensive with the ability to cut, bend, skew, rotate, twist, lighten, darken and distort. User settings are available for the spray can, orientation of shapes, gradient fills (very powerful), shadow and much more. Printout is supported to 9-pin, 24-pin and HP Desk/Laserjet printers with the option to print thumbnails of your pictures.