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The skencil mailinglists from Savannah are now migrated to wald.intevation.de. Reasons for migration from Savannah to wald in general can be read here
Updated Information on the new mailinglists can be found on the
mailinglist page.
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Daniel Baumann announced to take over the maintainership for Skencil's
Debian package from Gregor Hoffleit. Daniel already uploaded a new unstable
package into Debian and will also do a backport to Sarge.
He got interested in Skencil by a friend.
To find the packages, as always: Use the
download page.
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A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
had happened in the end of last year:
Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
estimate colour in printouts.
Check the Add-ons Page
Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
linked from the download page.
Two new cool screenshots
for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
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A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
with us" is now a separate Gallery
section.
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Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do
if you want to be
running Skencil on Mac OS X.
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Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
can be found from
the download page.
Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
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Changes since 0.6.16:
- Support for Python 2.4
- The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
File/Open dialog.
- Bug fixes
See the release notes for more
details. Sources are available from
the download page.
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Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
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Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
we doubled the number of available
screenshots.
Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
BuildImage
system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
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The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
add-ons announced by
Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
Check the Add-ons Page
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Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
Check the download page.
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Changes since 0.6.15:
- New name: "Skencil".
- New look with new icons by Taiabati.
- Support for Python 2.3
- WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)
See the release notes for more
details. Sources are available from the download page.
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Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
Windows
version of Skencil's development branch.
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PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
objects with a second path. This can be used to
quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
thickness locally to get more "natural"
effects.
Right now the resulting path might intersect
itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
resulting path might be used as a starting
point.
Check out
pathstroke.py.
(newsitem written by S.
Budig)
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BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
images from a sketch master. It can be used like
"make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
vector "source".
Check out the
BuildImage Tutorial.
(newsitem added by B.Reiter)
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