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   <a name="newsID17">2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management); 
        updated Debian packages and screenshots</a>
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    <td class="newsitem">
        A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
        had happened in the end of last year:
        <p>
        Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
        estimate colour in printouts.
        Check the <a href="./addon.html#softproof">Add-ons Page</a>
        <p>
        Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
        linked from the <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
        <p>
        Two new cool <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a> 
        for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
    </td>
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   <a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
  </td></tr>

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    <td class="newsitem">
      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>.
    </td>
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  <tr><td class="newsheader">
   <a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
  </td></tr>

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

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   <a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
  </td></tr>

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    <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>
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   <a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
  </td></tr>
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    <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! ;-)

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   <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>
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<p />

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

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

    </td>
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<p />

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

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    <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.
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   <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>

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

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    <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>
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<p />

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   <a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
  </td></tr>

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    <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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   <a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
  </td></tr>

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

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    <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>
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<p />

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

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    <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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   <a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
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    <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>
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  <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>

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    <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>
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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>
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1	jpaalasm	606	title: Skencil / News
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20	bernhard	648	<a name="newsID17">2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management);
21			updated Debian packages and screenshots</a>
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25			<td class="newsitem">
26			A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
27			had happened in the end of last year:
28			<p>
29			Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
30			estimate colour in printouts.
31			Check the <a href="./addon.html#softproof">Add-ons Page</a>
32			<p>
33			Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
34			linked from the <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
35			<p>
36			Two new cool <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>
37			for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
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	644	<a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
46			</td></tr>
47
48			<tr>
49			<td class="newsitem">
50			A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
51			gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
52			with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
53			section</a>.
54			</td>
55			</tr>
56			</table>
57			<p />
58
59			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
60			<tr><td class="newsheader">
61	bernhard	641	<a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
62			</td></tr>
63
64			<tr>
65			<td class="newsitem">
66			Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
67			on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do
68			if you want to be
69			<a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
70			>running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
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	bernhard	637	<a name="newsID14"
79			>2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
80			</td></tr>
81
82			<tr>
83			<td class="newsitem">
84			Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
85			can be found from
86			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
87			<p>
88			Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
89			Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
90			and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
91			are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
92			bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
93			Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
94			</p>
95
96			</td>
97			</tr>
98			</table>
99			<p />
100
101			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
102			<tr><td class="newsheader">
103	bh	634	<a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
104			</td></tr>
105
106			<tr>
107			<td class="newsitem">
108	bh	643	<p>Changes since 0.6.16:</p>
109	bh	634
110			<ul>
111
112			<li>Support for Python 2.4</li>
113
114			<li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
115			File/Open dialog.</li>
116
117			<li>Bug fixes</li>
118
119			</ul>
120
121			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
122			details. Sources are available from
123			the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
124			</p>
125
126			</td>
127			</tr>
128			</table>
129			<p />
130
131			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
132			<tr><td class="newsheader">
133	bernhard	631	<a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
134			</td></tr>
135			<tr>
136			<td class="newsitem">
137			Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
138			<ul>
139			<li>
140			<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
141			>RPMS for Suse</a>
142			by Joel Biddier
143			<li>
144			<a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
145			>Debian i386 .deb</a>
146			by Tobias Hilbricht
147			</ul>
148			Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
149
150			</td>
151			</tr>
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153			<p />
154
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157	bernhard	629	<a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
158			</td></tr>
159
160			<tr>
161			<td class="newsitem">
162			<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant
163			<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
164			</p>
165			</td>
166			</tr>
167			</table>
168			<p />
169
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172	bernhard	626	<a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
173			</td></tr>
174
175			<tr>
176			<td class="newsitem">
177			Tobias Hilbricht has updated
178			his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
179			<dd>
180
181			</td>
182			</tr>
183			</table>
184			<p />
185
186			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
187			<tr><td class="newsheader">
188	bernhard	625	<a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
189			</td></tr>
190
191			<tr>
192			<td class="newsitem">
193			Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
194			we doubled the number of available
195			<a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
196			Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
197			<p>
198			Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
199			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
200			BuildImage</a>
201			system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
202			in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
203			</td>
204			</tr>
205			</table>
206			<p />
207
208			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
209			<tr><td class="newsheader">
210	bernhard	618	<a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar,
211			Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
212			</td></tr>
213
214			<tr>
215			<td class="newsitem">
216			<p>
217			The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
218			add-ons announced by
219			Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
220			KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
221			and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
222			Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
223			</p>
224
225			</td>
226			</tr>
227			</table>
228
229			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
230			<tr><td class="newsheader">
231	jpaalasm	606	<a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
232			Core 1 available</a>
233			</td></tr>
234
235			<tr>
236			<td class="newsitem">
237			<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
238			to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
239			Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
240			</td>
241			</tr>
242			</table>
243			<p />
244
245			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
246			<tr><td class="newsheader">
247			<a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
248			</td></tr>
249
250			<tr>
251			<td class="newsitem">
252			<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
253			by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
254			</td>
255			</tr>
256			</table>
257			<p />
258
259			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
260			<tr><td class="newsheader">
261			<a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
262			</td></tr>
263
264			<tr>
265			<td class="newsitem">
266			<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
267
268			<ul>
269
270			<li>New name: "Skencil".</li>
271
272			<li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>
273
274			<li>Support for Python 2.3</li>
275
276			<li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>
277
278			</ul>
279
280			<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
281			details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
282			</td>
283			</tr>
284			</table>
285			<p />
286
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288			<tr><td class="newsheader">
289			<a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
290			</td></tr>
291
292			<tr>
293			<td class="newsitem">
294			<p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
295			Skencil. On October the 4th
296			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&forum_id=4026">
297			"Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
298			<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&forum_id=4026">
299			a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
300			Koormann.</p>
301			</td>
302			</tr>
303			</table>
304			<p />
305
306			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
307			<tr><td class="newsheader">
308			<a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
309			</td></tr>
310
311			<tr>
312			<td class="newsitem">
313			<p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
314			<a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
315			version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
316			</td>
317			</tr>
318			</table>
319			<p />
320
321			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
322			<tr><td class="newsheader">
323			<a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
324			</td></tr>
325
326			<tr>
327			<td class="newsitem">
328			<p>The gallery has two new
329			<a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by André
330			Pascual</a> and new section with
331			<a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
332			Stéphane Joly</a></p>
333			</td>
334			</tr>
335			</table>
336			<p />
337
338			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
339			<tr><td class="newsheader">
340			<a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
341			</td></tr>
342
343			<tr>
344			<td class="newsitem">
345			<p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
346			objects with a second path. This can be used to
347			quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
348			thickness locally to get more "natural"
349			effects.<br /></p>
350
351			<p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
352			itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
353			overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
354			resulting path might be used as a starting
355			point.<br /></p>
356
357			<p>Check out
358			<a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
359			pathstroke.py</a>.</p>
360
361			<p><small>(newsitem written by S.
362			Budig)</small></p>
363			</td>
364			</tr>
365			</table>
366			<p />
367
368			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
369			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>
370
371			<tr>
372			<td class="newsitem">
373			<p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
374			images from a sketch master. It can be used like
375			"make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
376			vector "source".</p>
377
378			<p>Check out the
379			<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
380			BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>
381
382			<p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
383			</td>
384			</tr>
385			</table>
386			<p />
387
388			<table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
389			<tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>
390
391			<tr>
392			<td class="newsitem">
393			<p>More information on the
394			<a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
395			</td>
396			</tr>
397			</table>
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