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Welcome to Papywizard project

Introduction

Papywizard is a panohead control software, mainly developped for the Merlin/Orion astronomic mount, but usable for other panoheads with small effort.

Papywizard is entirely written in python and, although developped under linux, should runs under many platformes (Windows/WindowsCE, MacOS, Unix...). It is especially designed to run on small plateforms, like PDA. Unfortunally, my tests under PocketPC showed that it is very difficult to develop on it. I bought a used Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and successfully ran Papywizard :o) Some guys successfully ran it on N800 and N810. So I concentrate my efforts on maemo plateform... Another future solution will be to use Openmoko plateform, with the recently available FreeRunner cellphone.

Anyway, at this time, Papywizard successfully runs on PC/linux, Nokia/maemo, and PC/windows. It should run as well on MacOS, but nobody tried it yet (there is no pre-build PyGTK package for MacOS, so user must compile it).

This project is developped in collaboration with Kolor company, which develops Autopano Pro, a great stitcher software. Thanks to Alexandre and his team for their support!

Papywizard is not a commercial project: I develop it on my free time, because it is fun. So, I don't make support for professional usage. This does not mean that it can't be used by pro photographers, but be aware that things can go wrong while shooting, and neither my responsability, nor Kolor one, can be engaged is such case.

Enjoy!
The Papywizard team

Latest news

2008-11: Bluetooth now works under Windows!
2008-11: version 1.4.0 is out. Main improvements are FOV and number of pictures as input params, preview positions in shooting dialog, and rewind/forward shooting feature. See ChangeLog for all new features.
2008-11: version 1.2.0 is out. A lot of improvements for this release (custom user presets, Windows installer...); see the ChangeLog for all new features...
2008-10: Openmoko seems a good candidate, as Papywizard runs on it out-of-the-box (simulation mode). More tests to come.
2008-09: Papywizard runs again under Windows (svn version), except for bluetooth. Hope to fix this soon.
2008-09: version 1.0 is out! See the ChangeLog...

License

All Papywizard files and documents are released under CeCILL, a french free license, based on and compatible with GPL.

Documentation

Installation Guide
User Guide
User Guide Svn -- Developpement version
User Guide 1.4.x, User Guide 1.2.x, User Guide 1.0.x - Previous stable versions
Tips and tricks
FAQ
Developper Guide
Python -- Python

Screenshots

See this page.

Download

Zip archives can be downloaded from source pages.

Stable version

If you are using a Nokia, the best way to install Papywizard is to add my catalogue, then use the maemo application manager. See Installation on Nokia.