Bug#599359: RFP: ardesia -- The free digital sketchpad

[Carlo Stemberger <carlo.stemberger@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : ardesia
  Version         : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Pietro Pilloli  <pilolli@fbk.eu>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : The free digital sketchpad

Ardesia is the free digital sketchpad software that help you to make
colored free-hand annotations with digital ink everywhere, record it and
share on the network. It is easy to use and impressively fast and
reactive. You can draw upon the desktop or import an image and annotate
it and redistribute your work to the world. Let's create quick sketch
and artwork.

Thanks to Ardesia you are free to open any application and fix your
ideas and comments as if you wrote on a classic chalkboard. Tradition
and innovation are living together in simplicity thanks to a natural
user interface that reproduce the natural feeling of the free hand
painting. Reduce the traditional whiteboard and paper usage; Ardesia is
smooth and fuzzy!

You can use the tool to make effective on-screen presentation, highlight
things or point out things of interest. The tool facilitates the online
presentations and demos showing in real time your computer screen to
anyone in the network.

You can use this tool to enhance your lessons or courses working with
your preferred applications and your preferred operating system.

Create nice tutorial and demos saving the desktop images with your free
hand annotations.

Ardesia includes a sketchpad software that allow to free-hand draw
geometrical shapes using the shape recognizer.

Ardesia respects the interoperability standards, it imports and exports
artifact using common file open formats. Ardesia works with all the
pointing device; you can use a mouse, a touch screen, a drawing tablet,
a cheap&professional wiimote whiteboard or a commercial
whiteboard,interactive projector and any other devices supported by your
operating system.
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A .deb package is available.

Regards,
Carlo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
Architecture: i386 (i686)