Balloonist is a comics layout application for comics artists and comics-minded graphics designers.

As you move your balloons around the workspace, Balloonist keeps their text centered... even when they're clipped to the boundary of a panel or another balloon. There's full support for Undo, margins, text styling, and the vertical orientation of Japanese & Chinese writing. Merged and tied ovals are a given.

Balloonist is a tool that integrates seamlessly into existing design workflows through its support of PDF and SVG. It even lets you change the rectangularness of ovals, fit panels to a page, and drag the gutters between panels!

Here are some key features of "Balloonist":

· Vertically orient Japanese & Chinese text
· Spread text across merged & tied ovals
· Outputs to Acrobat PDF and SVG for high-quality export to other illustration software
· Full Undo support
· Gouache tool to replace text in existing comics
· Works with scanned-in fonts generated by programs like FontLab and TypeTool
· Variable balloon text margins
· control font styles & drawing colors
· Drag 'n Drop-enabled Object Hiearchy tree
· move the gutters between panels!
· Exquisite levels of control over ruffles, prongs and stems.