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title: Skencil / Features |
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<h2>Drawing Primitives</h2> |
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<p>Skencil has the usual drawing primitives found in a vector |
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drawing program:</p> |
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<li>Rectangles, optionally with rounded corners</li> |
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<li>Ellipses (full ellipses, pie slices, arcs and chords)</li> |
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<li>Bézier curves (single and multi path)</li> |
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<li>External images: |
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<li>Raster images: JPEG, PNG,...<br /> |
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(all types the Python Imaging Library can read)</li> |
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<li>Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)</li></ul></li> |
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<li>Text (very simple at the moment)</li></ul> |
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<p>All objects, including images and text, can be rotated, scaled, |
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sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are possible)</p> |
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<h2>Properties</h2> |
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<p>Primitives can usually have fill and line properties:</p> |
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<p>Fill properties are patterns like solid colors, gradients, tiled |
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images and hatching.</p> |
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<p>Line properties are currently a (solid) color, width, dashes, |
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cap and join styles and arrow heads. Patterns instead of a single |
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color are planned for the future.</p> |
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<h2><a name="N2" id="N2">Special Effects and Features</a></h2> |
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<ul> |
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<li>Rectangles, ellipses and bézier curves can be used as |
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guides. Skencil has ordinary horizontal and vertical guide lines as |
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well, of course.</li> |
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<li>Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of arbitrary |
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objects</li> |
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<li>Text can be converted to bézier curves. (This works only |
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if Skencil has access to the PostScript Type 1 font files (pfa or |
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pfb)).</li> |
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<li>Text along a path: |
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<table style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> |
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<td><img src="images/textpathrot.png" width="200" height="150" |
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alt="Rotated letters" /></td> |
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<td><img src="images/textpathskew.png" width="200" height="150" |
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alt="Skewed letters" /></td></tr> |
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<td colspan="2">Text along a path can have either rotated letters |
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(left) or skewed letters |
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(right).</td></tr></table> |
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</li></ul> |
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<h2>Plugins</h2> |
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<p>Skencil has plugin mechanisms for a variety of purposes:</p> |
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<p><em>Import Filters</em> allow Skencil to read different file |
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formats. Currently Skencil has import filters for XFig (.fig), |
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Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files, Corel CMX, Windows 3.1 |
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Metafiles, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and for its own file |
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format.</p> |
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<p><em>Export Filters</em> allow Skencil to write the drawing to |
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various file formats. Skencil has filters for its own format and for |
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Adobe Illustrator, PDF and SVG files.</p> |
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<p><em>Plugin Objects</em> provide a way to define new graphics |
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objects.</p> |
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<h2>Other Features</h2> |
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<li>User scripts</li> |
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<li>Exports Encapsulated PostScript</li> |
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<li>Unlimited undo history</li></ul> |
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