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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.

Note: the recent 1.6.0 stable release is probably the last one of the 1.x branch. Papywizard as reached a level I never expected; thanks to all users and contributors! But there are still many things we can do with such project, and Papywizard needs a deep code review to implement them in a correct way. So, it is time for a v2. The first step will be to switch to PyQt toolkit. This will drop the support for the Nokia 770, which don't run Qt/PyQt, but no problem for the N800/N810. And it will add support for a lot of other platforms (including MacOS). The recent Nokia annoncement (which bought Trolltech, Qt company) to release Qt under LGPL ensures that Qt it is really a good choice for the future. So the first release of Papywizard v2 will certainly be the same as the 1.6, but using PyQt instead PyGtk. Then, I'll add new features. Stay tuned''

Enjoy!
The Papywizard team

Latest news

  • 2009-01: first dev. release (1.9.0) using PyQt. This is the 1.6.0 version using PyQt instead of PyGtk (graphical shooting area missing). New features will come later.
  • 2009-01: version 1.6.0 is out. Introduce a simple timer/intervalometer feature, and alternate shooting view. This is the last release of the 1.x branch; time to start v2 ;o) See ChangeLog for all new features.
  • 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.

The project started on the Autopano Pro forum, where someone has bring the idea to use an astronomic mount for panoramic shots. The very low price of the Merlin/Orion mount made it the perfect candidate. The only things to do were an electronic interface, and a little software to drive it!

Use the forums for questions, bugs reports, or to ask for new features.

Documentation

Screenshots

See this page.

Download

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.

Developpement version

If you are using a Nokia, unlike the stable version, just click on the package file from your web navigator.

Previous stable versions

Licence

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Authors

Main developpement

  • Frédéric Mantegazza (aka fma38 on APP forum)

Contributors

  • Jo Lutum (aka Paul on APP forum) -- german translation
  • Maciej Dworak (aka DrSlony on APP forum) -- polish translation
  • Antonio Bruno (aka AmdAntonio on APP forum) -- italian translation
  • Hubert Pawlowski (aka hub on APP forum) -- icon design

Misc

  • Andrew Stephens (aka mediavets on APP forum) -- beta tester

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