Bracelet Generator Files

Bracelet Generator - An easy way to design friendship bracelet patterns
Copyright 2014 Juliette Monsel <j_4321@sfr.fr>

Bracelet Generator is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Bracelet Generator is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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This software doesn’t aim at teaching you how to make friendship bracelets.
It only enables you to create patterns easily. So if you don’t know how to
make the four types of knots, find a tutorial on the Internet first,
for instance http://friendship-bracelets.net/tutorials.php.


----------Changes between the 1.1 and 1.2 versions of Bracelet Generator--------------

1. Improvements

- When a bicolor motif file is opened, the editor comes on top of the main window
- The software remembers the last path used 

2. New feature

- The pattern can be vertically symmetrized

----------------Download---------------------------------------------------------------

If you are using Windows, download BraceletGenerator-1.2-Win.exe.
If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, download BraceletGenerator-1.2.2-Ubuntu-Debian.tar.bz2.
Otherwise, download the source code.

-----------------Install---------------------------------------------------------------
1. Windows

Launch BraceletGenerator-1.2.2-Win.exe and follow the instructions.

2. Ubuntu/Debian

Unzip BraceletGenerator-1.2.2-Ubuntu-Debian.tar.bz2, and run install_debian-ubuntu.py
with the superuser's rights.

3. Source code

3.1. Prerequisites

To use BraceletGenerator.py, you need :
- Python 2.7 (or higher but not Python 3.x)
- Tkinter (TCL/Tk GUI for Python)
- Pillow ou PIL (Python Imaging Library)
- ImageMagick and Ghostscript

For Ubuntu/Debian users, it's pretty simple, just do :

sudo apt-get install python-tk python-imaging-tk imagemagick ghostscript

Othrwise, see the documentation for more information.

3.2. Getting Started

Unzip the archive and launch BraceletGenerator.py :
either make it executable or run it with python.