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Pencil is an open supply utility for creating interface mockups, flowcharts and diagrams.
This system works very like many different drawing software. Drag and drop shapes onto the web page, add textual content, set colors and extra, then be part of them up with connectors.
Pencil would not simply include the standard flowchart symbols, although. It additionally has net parts (headers, textual content, hyperlinks, panes and tables); desktop widgets (labels, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo bins); and a bunch of different elements for Home windows, Android and iOS interfaces.
Placing these collectively is easy. You would possibly drag and drop a button onto the web page, then click on it to set any properties (dimension, textual content, font and extra). Add different interface parts, then rearrange and reorganise them as required.
As you drag parts round, they “snap” into place at key alignment factors, so it is simple to (for instance) make a row of buttons line up. There are different choices to manage form peak, width, spacing and alignment. When you’re pleased with part of your interface – a title and set of radio buttons, maybe – you are in a position to “group” these parts, and drag them throughout collectively.
Creating one display screen is straightforward sufficient – nevertheless it’s simply the beginning. Pencil lets you construct additional designs on new pages, then hyperlink all of them collectively. Export the doc as an HTML file and you can click on on a button, say, and be taken to a separate web page exhibiting what occurs subsequent, a helpful simulation of your program stream.
When you do not want this type of interactivity, then your doc could be exported in a number of different codecs: PDF, ODT, multi-page SVG, and particular person PNG recordsdata.
What’s new in 3.1.0? See the discharge notes for extra.
Verdict:
A few of Pencil’s interface parts look slightly dated, there’s little or no documentation, and this system would not all the time work as you’d anticipate. Its wide selection of shapes and glorious alignment instruments are main pluses, although, and on steadiness this system earned a thumbs up from us.
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