Knotter

Knotter is a customizable interlace designer.

Interlace patterns are a kind of design historically used as a decorations in many places and by different cultures. Some examples are Celtic knotworks and Islamic interlaces. Knotter aims to allow its user to intuitively design such patterns and to provide easy ways to integrate the result in external general-purpose graphic software for this purpose designs created within Knotter can be saved in a custom Human-Readable format and exported as scalable vector graphics and in a wide number of raster image formats.

Main Features

• Completely free software
• Simple and customizable user interface
• Flexible knot styling
  • Several shapes
  • Multiple colors
  • Transparency
  • Tweakable features
• Simple but powerful editing tools
• Export images
  • SVG
  • PNG
  • Bitmap
  • Jpeg
  • Tiff
  • Many others
• Cross platform

Latest Stable Release 0.9.6

Download

Knotter 0.9.6
Package	32 bit	64 bit
Sources (Cross platform)	knotter-0.9.6.tar.gz
Windows (Windows, ReactOS)	knotter-0.9.6-windows-32.zip	knotter-0.9.6-windows-64.zip
Deb (Qt4) (Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel and similar)	knotter_0.9.6-2_i386.deb	knotter_0.9.6-2_amd64.deb
AUR (Arch, Parabola and similar)	knotter
OS/2 (OS/2, eComStation)	knotter-0.9.5a-os2.7z

Screenshots

• Screenshots for Knotter 0.9
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  Clean interface

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  Intuitive editing

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  Customizable style

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  Grid for precise editing

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  Creating a knot from an image

Release Notes

New Features

• The largest dockable dialogs now can be resized to a smaller size and will show a scrollbar when they get smaller than their contents.
• The plugin configuration dialog can filter plugins by category.
• Support for plugins defining new edge types.
• Plugins can load and store their own configuration.
• Set of plugins that can edit the rendered image with external programs.
• Better interaction between scripts and UI widgets.
• More advanced scripting interaction with the file system.
• It's now possible to download and upgrade plugins within Knotter.
• It's possible to open or copy the name of the system directory shown in the about dialog.

Bug Fixes

• Reloading plugins won't cause a crash if there are active plugin cusp or crossing styles.
• Plugin properties are properly accessible from scripts.
• The plugin dialog won't show the placeholder text if at least a plugin is available.

Development Version

You can download the development sources from git.

Knotter 0.9.7
Package	Sources
Repository	git://github.com/mbasaglia/Knotter.git
Online viewer	GitHub
Tarball	knotter-git.tar.gz

For instruction on how to build Knotter from source see Building from source.

Installation

Windows

1. Download the appropriate package
2. Extract the zip archive
3. Run knotter.exe

GNU/Linux

1. Download the appropriate package
2. Open it with the system installer
3. Knotter should be available in the Graphics application menu

OS/2

1. Download the appropriate package
2. Extract the 7zip archive
3. Run Knotter.exe

Other

1. Download the source package
2. Extract the tarball
3. See building from source for instructions