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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
      gallery.  This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
      with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
      section</a>.
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   <a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
  </td></tr>

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    <td class="newsitem">
    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 
    <a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
    >running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
    </td>
  </tr>
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<p />

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

  <tr>
    <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 0.6.16:</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>
</table>
<p />

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  <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>
  </tr>
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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>

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    <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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   <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>
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<p />

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  <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>

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  <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 />

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  <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>
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<p />

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  <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>
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<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>
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<p />

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  <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	bh	644	<a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
21			</td></tr>
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24			<td class="newsitem">
25			A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
26			gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
27			with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
28			section</a>.
29			</td>
30			</tr>
31			</table>
32			<p />
33
34			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
35			<tr><td class="newsheader">
36	bernhard	641	<a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
37			</td></tr>
38
39			<tr>
40			<td class="newsitem">
41			Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
42			on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do
43			if you want to be
44			<a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
45			>running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
46			</td>
47			</tr>
48			</table>
49			<p />
50
51			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
52			<tr><td class="newsheader">
53	bernhard	637	<a name="newsID14"
54			>2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
55			</td></tr>
56
57			<tr>
58			<td class="newsitem">
59			Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
60			can be found from
61			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
62			<p>
63			Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
64			Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
65			and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
66			are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
67			bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
68			Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
69			</p>
70
71			</td>
72			</tr>
73			</table>
74			<p />
75
76			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
77			<tr><td class="newsheader">
78	bh	634	<a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
79			</td></tr>
80
81			<tr>
82			<td class="newsitem">
83	bh	643	<p>Changes since 0.6.16:</p>
84	bh	634
85			<ul>
86
87			<li>Support for Python 2.4</li>
88
89			<li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
90			File/Open dialog.</li>
91
92			<li>Bug fixes</li>
93
94			</ul>
95
96			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
97			details. Sources are available from
98			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
99			</p>
100
101			</td>
102			</tr>
103			</table>
104			<p />
105
106			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
107			<tr><td class="newsheader">
108	bernhard	631	<a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
109			</td></tr>
110			<tr>
111			<td class="newsitem">
112			Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
113			<ul>
114			<li>
115			<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
116			>RPMS for Suse</a>
117			by Joel Biddier
118			<li>
119			<a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
120			>Debian i386 .deb</a>
121			by Tobias Hilbricht
122			</ul>
123			Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
124
125			</td>
126			</tr>
127			</table>
128			<p />
129
130			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
131			<tr><td class="newsheader">
132	bernhard	629	<a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
133			</td></tr>
134
135			<tr>
136			<td class="newsitem">
137			<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant
138			<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
139			</p>
140			</td>
141			</tr>
142			</table>
143			<p />
144
145			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
146			<tr><td class="newsheader">
147	bernhard	626	<a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
148			</td></tr>
149
150			<tr>
151			<td class="newsitem">
152			Tobias Hilbricht has updated
153			his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
154			<dd>
155
156			</td>
157			</tr>
158			</table>
159			<p />
160
161			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
162			<tr><td class="newsheader">
163	bernhard	625	<a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
164			</td></tr>
165
166			<tr>
167			<td class="newsitem">
168			Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
169			we doubled the number of available
170			<a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
171			Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
172			<p>
173			Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
174			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
175			BuildImage</a>
176			system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
177			in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
178			</td>
179			</tr>
180			</table>
181			<p />
182
183			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
184			<tr><td class="newsheader">
185	bernhard	618	<a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar,
186			Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
187			</td></tr>
188
189			<tr>
190			<td class="newsitem">
191			<p>
192			The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
193			add-ons announced by
194			Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
195			KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
196			and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
197			Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
198			</p>
199
200			</td>
201			</tr>
202			</table>
203
204			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
205			<tr><td class="newsheader">
206	jpaalasm	606	<a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
207			Core 1 available</a>
208			</td></tr>
209
210			<tr>
211			<td class="newsitem">
212			<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
213			to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
214			Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
215			</td>
216			</tr>
217			</table>
218			<p />
219
220			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
221			<tr><td class="newsheader">
222			<a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
223			</td></tr>
224
225			<tr>
226			<td class="newsitem">
227			<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
228			by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
229			</td>
230			</tr>
231			</table>
232			<p />
233
234			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
235			<tr><td class="newsheader">
236			<a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
237			</td></tr>
238
239			<tr>
240			<td class="newsitem">
241			<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
242
243			<ul>
244
245			<li>New name: "Skencil".</li>
246
247			<li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>
248
249			<li>Support for Python 2.3</li>
250
251			<li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>
252
253			</ul>
254
255			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
256			details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
257			</td>
258			</tr>
259			</table>
260			<p />
261
262			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
263			<tr><td class="newsheader">
264			<a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
265			</td></tr>
266
267			<tr>
268			<td class="newsitem">
269			<p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
270			Skencil. On October the 4th
271			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&forum_id=4026">
272			"Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
273			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&forum_id=4026">
274			a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
275			Koormann.</p>
276			</td>
277			</tr>
278			</table>
279			<p />
280
281			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
282			<tr><td class="newsheader">
283			<a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
284			</td></tr>
285
286			<tr>
287			<td class="newsitem">
288			<p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
289			<a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
290			version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
291			</td>
292			</tr>
293			</table>
294			<p />
295
296			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
297			<tr><td class="newsheader">
298			<a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
299			</td></tr>
300
301			<tr>
302			<td class="newsitem">
303			<p>The gallery has two new
304			<a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by André
305			Pascual</a> and new section with
306			<a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
307			Stéphane Joly</a></p>
308			</td>
309			</tr>
310			</table>
311			<p />
312
313			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
314			<tr><td class="newsheader">
315			<a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
316			</td></tr>
317
318			<tr>
319			<td class="newsitem">
320			<p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
321			objects with a second path. This can be used to
322			quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
323			thickness locally to get more "natural"
324			effects.<br /></p>
325
326			<p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
327			itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
328			overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
329			resulting path might be used as a starting
330			point.<br /></p>
331
332			<p>Check out
333			<a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
334			pathstroke.py</a>.</p>
335
336			<p><small>(newsitem written by S.
337			Budig)</small></p>
338			</td>
339			</tr>
340			</table>
341			<p />
342
343			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
344			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>
345
346			<tr>
347			<td class="newsitem">
348			<p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
349			images from a sketch master. It can be used like
350			"make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
351			vector "source".</p>
352
353			<p>Check out the
354			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
355			BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>
356
357			<p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
358			</td>
359			</tr>
360			</table>
361			<p />
362
363			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
364			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>
365
366			<tr>
367			<td class="newsitem">
368			<p>More information on the
369			<a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
370			</td>
371			</tr>
372			</table>
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