Innovative Leonardo Sketch Integrates Drawing with the Social Web

Josh Marinacci has announced that Ruby Red is Here! Ruby Red is the first full release of Leonardo Sketch, an innovative open source drawing program written entirely in Java. The Leonardo home page describes Leonardo as: an open source drawing program for the 21st century. It focuses on common tasks like mockups, sketches, and presentations with a clean and consistent user interface. Leo is designed to be augmented by internet webservices and plugins created in several scripting languages. Leonardo Sketch isn't just another drawing program. Conceptually, it's designed for the modern world and modern life. How so? Well, consider your computer desktop, and how it's changed in the past decade or two. Today, a computer desktop doesn't exist in isolation; rather, it's typically connected to the outside world, and consists of windows that are running local applications alongside other windows that connected to the web. Unlike other drawing applications, Leonardo Sketch incorporates connectivity into its basic structure. For example, the current release includes an email interface and interfaces with Twitter and Flickr. And I suspect that this is just the start of the social interfaces that will eventually be developed for Leonardo Sketch. Furthermore, since Leonardo is written entirely in Java, it runs on just about any platform. That's an advantage for any of us who work on multiple platforms. I...

Date: November, 24 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/11/24/innovative-leonardo-sketch-integrates-drawing-social-web

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