# The Krayon Handbook

David
Johnson

    david@usermode.org

First draft
2001
David Johnson
&FDLNotice;
2001-06-02
1.00.00

&krayon; is an image manipulation and processing program, suitable for photo retouching or image creation. It is a part of the &koffice; suite of applications.

KDE
Krayon
KOffice
image processing
image manipulation

## Introduction

&krayon; is a full featured image manipulation program. You can use &krayon; for all your image creation and editing needs, such as making web images, touching up scanned photographs, creating original art, or anything else you might need to do with bitmapped images.

What makes &krayon; different, and special, is ease of use compared with other high-end applications, and full integration with &koffice; and &kde;. Because of this, &krayon; supports drag and drop, themes, embedding, and many other advanced features you expect from a modern desktop environment. Ease of use is important to amateur users, but even more important to professional artists who must spend many hours a day using such applications to work with images.

&krayon; is primarily a painting program with some image processing capabilities. More capabilities can be added with plugins. Using native and foreign plugins, and parts which can reuse other &kde; components, additional tools and utilities can be added as needed.

&krayon; uses &XML; as its native file format. This allows import filters for almost every type of image file format to be easily created. It also allows other programs to more easily import &krayon; files.

&krayonusing;

&krayoncommands;

&krayonfaq;

## Credits and License

&krayon;

Program copyright 1999 - 2000 Matthias Elter me@kde.org

Authors:

- Matthias Elter me@kde.org

- Michael Koch koch@kde.org

- Andrew Richards physajr@phys.canterbury.ac.nz

- Carsten Pfeiffer carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de

- John Califf jcaliff@compuzone.net

Current Maintainer:

- John Califf jcaliff@compuzone.net

&underGPL; &underFDL;

Documentation copyright 1999 David Johnson david@usermode.org

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this document for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies.

## Installation

&krayon; is included as part of the &koffice; package of &kde;. Source code or prebuilt binary distributions of the &koffice; package can be found at the main &kde; &FTP; site, ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, or from one of many mirror sites. A current list of mirror sites can be found at http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html.

In order to install and use &krayon; you must have:

- A functioning &UNIX; or &UNIX; like system with the X Windowing System configured.

- The K Desktop Environment 2.x (KDE 2.x). You will need at least the &Qt; 2.2.3 &GUI; toolkit, the kdesupport, the kdelibs, and the kdebase packages. Information on obtaining and installing &kde; 2.x can be found at: http://www.kde.org/.

- Permission to install software on your computer. If you are on a stand alone system, this will not be a problem. If you are using a networked computer, check with your administrator.

Instructions for installing &koffice; from either a source code or binary package can be found at http://www.koffice.org/.