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<a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a> |
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A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the |
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gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay |
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with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery |
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<a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a> |
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Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program |
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on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do |
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>2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a> |
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Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian |
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the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>. |
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Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging. |
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Debian is looking for a new package maintainer |
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and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu |
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are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to |
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bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users: |
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Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution. |
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<a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a> |
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<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more |
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details. Sources are available from |
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<a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a> |
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Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made: |
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>RPMS for Suse</a> |
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>Debian i386 .deb</a> |
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Give those packagers some feedback! ;-) |
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<a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a> |
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<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant |
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<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>. |
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<a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a> |
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Tobias Hilbricht has updated |
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<a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a> |
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Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this, |
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we doubled the number of available |
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Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth! |
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Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique |
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<a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar, |
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Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a> |
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The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new |
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Joel Biddier (skLaTeX), |
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KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText) |
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and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes). |
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Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a> |
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<a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora |
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<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library) |
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Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p> |
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<a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a> |
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<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings |
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<a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a> |
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<a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a> |
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<p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster |
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