PENCIL2D(1)

✨ PENCIL2D(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the PENCIL2D manual page — that's section 1, User Commands, for anyone keeping score 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Pencil2D — it's the manual page for Pencil2D v0.7.2, and yes, it's exactly as iconic as it sounds 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pencil2d [options] input

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. literally both. the range?? unmatched. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — Displays help on commandline options. your lil cheat sheet, no cap 📝
• --help-all — Displays help, including generic Qt options. the extended extended cut 🍿
• -v, --version — Displays version information. who dis? it'll tell u 🪞
• -o, --export <output_path> — Render the file to <output_path>. export it, post it, slay 💅
• --camera <layer_name> — Name of the camera layer to use. pick ur fave angle bestie 🎥
• --width <integer> — Width of the output frames. measurements matter fr fr 📏
• --height <integer> — Height of the output frames. and the other measurement, obviously 🫶
• --start <frame> — The first frame you want to include in the exported movie. where the story begins ✨
• --end <frame> — The last frame you want to include in the exported movie. Can also be last or last-sound to automatically use the last frame containing animation or sound, respectively. so u can just say last and let it cook 🔥
• --transparency — Render transparency when possible. see-through? iconic 👻

🎀 Arguments: 🎀

• input — Path to the input pencil file. that's ur file, hand it over 💖

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ok real talk bestie — those options are exactly the options, every flag, every <placeholder>, every default, all of it. don't be out here guessing at behaviour, mmkay? the page said what it said 🌸

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Pencil2D v0.7.2 🦋 March 2026 — that's the version and the date, straight from the footer, and that's a wrap. periodt. 💜🧚