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   <a name="newsID14"
   >2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
  </td></tr>

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    <td class="newsitem">
        Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
        can be found from
        the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
        <p>
        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.
        </p>

    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
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   <a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>

      <ul>

        <li>Support for Python 2.4</li>

        <li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
          File/Open dialog.</li>

        <li>Bug fixes</li>

      </ul>

      <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
        details. Sources are available from
        the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
      </p>

    </td>
  </tr>
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<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
  </td></tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
  Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
  <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
  >RPMS for Suse</a>
        by Joel Biddier 
  <li>
  <a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
  >Debian i386 .deb</a>
        by  Tobias Hilbricht
  </ul>
  Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)

    </td>
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<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant 
<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
    Tobias Hilbricht has updated 
    his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
<dd>

    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
        Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
        we doubled the number of available 
        <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
        Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
        <p>
        Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique 
        <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
BuildImage</a>
        system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
        in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar, 
        Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
    <p>
        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 <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
    </p>

    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
   Core 1 available</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
to his ATrpms apt / yum repository. 
Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>

<ul>

<li>New name: &quot;Skencil&quot;.</li>

<li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>

<li>Support for Python 2.3</li>

<li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>

</ul>

<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
      Skencil. On October the 4th
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&amp;forum_id=4026">
      "Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&amp;forum_id=4026">
      a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
      Koormann.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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   <a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
      <a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
      version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>The gallery has two new
      <a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by Andr&eacute;
      Pascual</a> and new section with
      <a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
      St&eacute;phane Joly</a></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
  </td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>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.<br /></p>

      <p>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.<br /></p>

      <p>Check out
      <a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
      pathstroke.py</a>.</p>

      <p><small>(newsitem written by S.
      Budig)</small></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

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  <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>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".</p>

      <p>Check out the
      <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
      BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>

      <p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p />

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
  <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="newsitem">
      <p>More information on the
      <a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
1	jpaalasm	606	title: Skencil / News
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20	bernhard	637	<a name="newsID14"
21			>2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
22			</td></tr>
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25			<td class="newsitem">
26			Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
27			can be found from
28			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
29			<p>
30			Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
31			Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
32			and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
33			are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
34			bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
35			Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
36			</p>
37
38			</td>
39			</tr>
40			</table>
41			<p />
42
43			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
44			<tr><td class="newsheader">
45	bh	634	<a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
46			</td></tr>
47
48			<tr>
49			<td class="newsitem">
50			<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
51
52			<ul>
53
54			<li>Support for Python 2.4</li>
55
56			<li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
57			File/Open dialog.</li>
58
59			<li>Bug fixes</li>
60
61			</ul>
62
63			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
64			details. Sources are available from
65			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
66			</p>
67
68			</td>
69			</tr>
70			</table>
71			<p />
72
73			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
74			<tr><td class="newsheader">
75	bernhard	631	<a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
76			</td></tr>
77			<tr>
78			<td class="newsitem">
79			Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
80			<ul>
81			<li>
82			<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
83			>RPMS for Suse</a>
84			by Joel Biddier
85			<li>
86			<a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
87			>Debian i386 .deb</a>
88			by Tobias Hilbricht
89			</ul>
90			Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
91
92			</td>
93			</tr>
94			</table>
95			<p />
96
97			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
98			<tr><td class="newsheader">
99	bernhard	629	<a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
100			</td></tr>
101
102			<tr>
103			<td class="newsitem">
104			<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant
105			<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
106			</p>
107			</td>
108			</tr>
109			</table>
110			<p />
111
112			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
113			<tr><td class="newsheader">
114	bernhard	626	<a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
115			</td></tr>
116
117			<tr>
118			<td class="newsitem">
119			Tobias Hilbricht has updated
120			his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
121			<dd>
122
123			</td>
124			</tr>
125			</table>
126			<p />
127
128			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
129			<tr><td class="newsheader">
130	bernhard	625	<a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
131			</td></tr>
132
133			<tr>
134			<td class="newsitem">
135			Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
136			we doubled the number of available
137			<a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
138			Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
139			<p>
140			Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
141			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
142			BuildImage</a>
143			system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
144			in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
145			</td>
146			</tr>
147			</table>
148			<p />
149
150			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
151			<tr><td class="newsheader">
152	bernhard	618	<a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar,
153			Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
154			</td></tr>
155
156			<tr>
157			<td class="newsitem">
158			<p>
159			The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
160			add-ons announced by
161			Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
162			KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
163			and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
164			Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
165			</p>
166
167			</td>
168			</tr>
169			</table>
170
171			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
172			<tr><td class="newsheader">
173	jpaalasm	606	<a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
174			Core 1 available</a>
175			</td></tr>
176
177			<tr>
178			<td class="newsitem">
179			<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
180			to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
181			Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
182			</td>
183			</tr>
184			</table>
185			<p />
186
187			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
188			<tr><td class="newsheader">
189			<a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
190			</td></tr>
191
192			<tr>
193			<td class="newsitem">
194			<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
195			by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
196			</td>
197			</tr>
198			</table>
199			<p />
200
201			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
202			<tr><td class="newsheader">
203			<a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
204			</td></tr>
205
206			<tr>
207			<td class="newsitem">
208			<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
209
210			<ul>
211
212			<li>New name: "Skencil".</li>
213
214			<li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>
215
216			<li>Support for Python 2.3</li>
217
218			<li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>
219
220			</ul>
221
222			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
223			details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
224			</td>
225			</tr>
226			</table>
227			<p />
228
229			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
230			<tr><td class="newsheader">
231			<a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
232			</td></tr>
233
234			<tr>
235			<td class="newsitem">
236			<p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
237			Skencil. On October the 4th
238			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&forum_id=4026">
239			"Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
240			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&forum_id=4026">
241			a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
242			Koormann.</p>
243			</td>
244			</tr>
245			</table>
246			<p />
247
248			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
249			<tr><td class="newsheader">
250			<a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
251			</td></tr>
252
253			<tr>
254			<td class="newsitem">
255			<p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
256			<a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
257			version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
258			</td>
259			</tr>
260			</table>
261			<p />
262
263			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
264			<tr><td class="newsheader">
265			<a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
266			</td></tr>
267
268			<tr>
269			<td class="newsitem">
270			<p>The gallery has two new
271			<a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by André
272			Pascual</a> and new section with
273			<a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
274			Stéphane Joly</a></p>
275			</td>
276			</tr>
277			</table>
278			<p />
279
280			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
281			<tr><td class="newsheader">
282			<a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
283			</td></tr>
284
285			<tr>
286			<td class="newsitem">
287			<p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
288			objects with a second path. This can be used to
289			quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
290			thickness locally to get more "natural"
291			effects.<br /></p>
292
293			<p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
294			itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
295			overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
296			resulting path might be used as a starting
297			point.<br /></p>
298
299			<p>Check out
300			<a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
301			pathstroke.py</a>.</p>
302
303			<p><small>(newsitem written by S.
304			Budig)</small></p>
305			</td>
306			</tr>
307			</table>
308			<p />
309
310			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
311			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>
312
313			<tr>
314			<td class="newsitem">
315			<p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
316			images from a sketch master. It can be used like
317			"make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
318			vector "source".</p>
319
320			<p>Check out the
321			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
322			BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>
323
324			<p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
325			</td>
326			</tr>
327			</table>
328			<p />
329
330			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
331			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>
332
333			<tr>
334			<td class="newsitem">
335			<p>More information on the
336			<a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
337			</td>
338			</tr>
339			</table>
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