NodeBox 1.8.5

NodeBox is a nice tool that lets you design 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
Main features:
- Designed for Mac OS X - NodeBox is designed for Mac OS X 10.4, PowerPC or Intel.
- Open Source - NodeBox is free open-source software and comes bundled with its source code. Developers can extend NodeBox or improve it.
- Python Powered - In NodeBox, you design with programming code, with language. NodeBox uses Python programming code which is easy to understand even for non-programmers.
- Illustrator Import - NodeBox integrates effortlessly with various document formats. In NodeBox, you can include your vector images from Adobe Illustrator. And with the additional support of the SVG library you can manipulate each curve individually in NodeBox.
- Core Image support - Install the NodeBox Core Image library to create layered images. and then apply transformations, blend modes, alpha masks and filters to indivdual layers.
- PDF Export - The visual output you create in NodeBox exports to a PDF-document. You can automatically export multiple PDF-documents from the same script, and control the layout of each page individually.
- QuickTime Export - Aside from PDF-documents you can create animation in NodeBox as well. Animations can be exported as QuickTime movies that can be displayed on web pages.
- Documentation
Other features:
- Interactivity
- Stop running scripts by hitting command-dot.
- Transparent PDFs with the background() command.
- Fast, integrated path mathematics.
- Store libaries centrally in the Application Support folder.
Enhancements:
- Spider example (in paths) demonstrates path.points() method spider (in path)
- Drawing example (in interactivity): make drawings that move!
- Tiny bug fix for bezier editor