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Contents of this page What is Picto Selector? Printing Searching Pictos Text and photo pictos and colorizing Who created this? Download Using Picto Selector on a MAC or Linux computer Adding pictures yourself How much does it cost? You can help! Tell your friends about Picto Selector Example (on another page) Links (on another page) History (on another page) Questbook (on another page) PECS for All visits since 11 may 2010: What is Picto Selector? Picto selector is a Windows application written for easy selection and printing of Pictos. The Pictos come from the website Sclera.be, Straight-Street.com and ARASAAC and have a Dutch, English, French and Spanish translation. The application itself also supports those languages. With Picto Selector the time consuming cut, paste and editing in Word is over. At the main screen picto sheets can be viewed and added. Each sheet can be printed. Pictos can easily be selected from a list and placed between existing pictos, this makes it extremely easy to alter existing picto sheets. Mainscreen of Picto Selector Back to top Printing With several options the layout of the print can be changed. The pictos can optionally be centered on each row. Also the number of pictos on each row and column can easily be set for each sheet. Sheets can have titles and pictos can have subscripts. Printing can also be done to a file to print them somewhere else or store them as PDF. Print example Back tp top Searching Pictos 3500 picto's are available on the Sclera website. There is also a download available with over 5000 pictos. The full version with pictos is a combination of those 2 lists. The Mulberry symbols (1500) and ASRASAAC symbols (4900) are aso included in the download. The application can search for both names and categories. From the list pictos can be dragged to picto sheets and other windows applications. Picto list   Back to top Text and photo pictos and colorizing Text pictos, create your own picto with text: Photo picto's, use a digital photo as a picto. Insert a photo picto. Select a photo you want to use. Choose which part of the photo you want to show: Colorize, use your own and the standard pictos and mark them for right or wrong / good or bad / yes or no: Negative, by default the pictures of Sclera.be are white on black, now you can make them black on white and even colorize them afterwards: Back to top Who created this? This program is written by Martijn van der Kooij. Software developer in Bodegraven and living in Stadskanaal. I made it for my wife to easily create the sheets for our son. Besides that it is just fun to do. Back to top Download A complete version (see startpage for version information) A older version on CNet, a update will be performed on first start If you already have downloaded the pictos in the past, then the application can be downloaded as a setup without pictos. (2 MB) After running the setup the application expects the pictos to be located in its png sub folder. You can move or copy the already downloaded pictos there. If you prefer to use another location, please select "Change Picto Folder..." under File in the top menu. Back to top Using Picto Selector on a MAC or Linux computer Although Picto Selecor is a Window application it can run on MAC or Linux systems with the use of other tools. Crossover For MAC and Linux we there is Crossover with a forum and support. First you need to download a MAC version or Linux version and install it. After installation you can download the configuration file (c4p bestand) and load it with a doubleclick into Crossover. Click on Install in Crossover to install Picto Selector. A program launcher will be added to the Crossover Program menu. You can use it to start Picto Selector You can now buy Crossover with some money off by using PICTO in the Special Deals box in their store. Wine Wine is the opensource project used by Crossover. Picto Selector can be run on Linux with Wine. See the Wine project for more explanation and support. Or visit the WineHQ page. Back to top Adding pictures yourself For Pictos not included in the download. Adding When you have a lot of pictures on your system, For instance from Wonder then you can easily add them to your list of pictos. You start with selecting the option "User Pictos" in the "File" menu. Then you enter the following dialog: In this example I already added the Wonder pictos with "Add New Pictos" by selecting the folder with the pictures. After doing this the application will look recursively in this folder to find any pictures and add them to this list. After closing this dialog you can use the pictures in your own picto sheets. The choosen categorie can be used to simplify this. Later on when you have added other pictures to the folder you can repeat the earlier steps. Only new pictures will be added to the list. Changing the Categories When you have selected 1 or multiple pictures in this dialog you can use the right mouse button for several settings. One of them is the selection of the categorie. In this example you could set the categorie "Wonder" to the pictures. This makes later use in the search dialog a lot easier. Restrictions Some "rules" apply to the user pictos Only the computer on which you create the list will know of those pictures. You will have to create the list again on another system. All pictures are handled as square pictos. The reason for this are the square picto's of Sclera. Back to top How much does it cost? Absolutely nothing. I hope it'll be useful to you and that you will enjoy using it. Visual support is very important for a large group of people and therefore I want the application to be as accessible as possible. It would be unfortunate if the costs would prevent its use. If you can afford it then consider a donation. This is possible through Paypal. You can also request my bank details. Back to top You can help! I'm still looking for people who can translate the program and pictos to other languages. If you can help please contact me. You can get my email adres from the Help > About window.  You can also help by donating some money to pay for the website costs and encourage futher development. Back to top Tell your friends about Picto Selector Do you like Picto Selector? Tell your friends!! You can use the links here, or create a message on your favourite forum or group. Back to top Picto Selector on the Internet There is now a Facebook page where you can find information about  PictoSelector, news and talk with other users. 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