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1 jpaalasm 606 title: Skencil / News
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10     <td class="newsitem">
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18     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
19     <tr><td class="newsheader">
20 bernhard 652 <a name="newsID18">2006-02-18: Daniel Baumann official Debian Maintainer</a>
21     </td></tr>
22    
23     <tr>
24     <td class="newsitem">
25     Daniel Baumann announced to take over the maintainership for Skencil's
26     Debian package from Gregor Hoffleit. Daniel already uploaded a new unstable
27     package into Debian and will also do a backport to Sarge.
28     He got interested in Skencil by a friend.
29     <p />
30     To find the packages, as always: Use the
31     <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
32     </td>
33     </tr>
34     </table>
35     <p />
36    
37     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
38     <tr><td class="newsheader">
39 bernhard 648 <a name="newsID17">2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management);
40     updated Debian packages and screenshots</a>
41     </td></tr>
42    
43     <tr>
44     <td class="newsitem">
45     A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
46     had happened in the end of last year:
47     <p>
48     Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
49     estimate colour in printouts.
50     Check the <a href="./addon.html#softproof">Add-ons Page</a>
51     <p>
52     Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
53     linked from the <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
54     <p>
55     Two new cool <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>
56     for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
57     </td>
58     </tr>
59     </table>
60     <p />
61    
62     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
63     <tr><td class="newsheader">
64 bh 644 <a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
65     </td></tr>
66    
67     <tr>
68     <td class="newsitem">
69     A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
70     gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
71     with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
72     section</a>.
73     </td>
74     </tr>
75     </table>
76     <p />
77    
78     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
79     <tr><td class="newsheader">
80 bernhard 641 <a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
81     </td></tr>
82    
83     <tr>
84     <td class="newsitem">
85     Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
86     on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do
87     if you want to be
88     <a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
89     >running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
90     </td>
91     </tr>
92     </table>
93     <p />
94    
95     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
96     <tr><td class="newsheader">
97 bernhard 637 <a name="newsID14"
98     >2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
99     </td></tr>
100    
101     <tr>
102     <td class="newsitem">
103     Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
104     can be found from
105     the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
106     <p>
107     Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
108     Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
109     and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
110     are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
111     bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
112     Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
113     </p>
114    
115     </td>
116     </tr>
117     </table>
118     <p />
119    
120     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
121     <tr><td class="newsheader">
122 bh 634 <a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
123     </td></tr>
124    
125     <tr>
126     <td class="newsitem">
127 bh 643 <p>Changes since 0.6.16:</p>
128 bh 634
129     <ul>
130    
131     <li>Support for Python 2.4</li>
132    
133     <li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
134     File/Open dialog.</li>
135    
136     <li>Bug fixes</li>
137    
138     </ul>
139    
140     <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
141     details. Sources are available from
142     the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
143     </p>
144    
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 631 <a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
153     </td></tr>
154     <tr>
155     <td class="newsitem">
156     Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
157     <ul>
158     <li>
159     <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
160     >RPMS for Suse</a>
161     by Joel Biddier
162     <li>
163     <a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
164     >Debian i386 .deb</a>
165     by Tobias Hilbricht
166     </ul>
167     Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
168    
169     </td>
170     </tr>
171     </table>
172     <p />
173    
174     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
175     <tr><td class="newsheader">
176 bernhard 629 <a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
177     </td></tr>
178    
179     <tr>
180     <td class="newsitem">
181     <p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant
182     <a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
183     </p>
184     </td>
185     </tr>
186     </table>
187     <p />
188    
189     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
190     <tr><td class="newsheader">
191 bernhard 626 <a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
192     </td></tr>
193    
194     <tr>
195     <td class="newsitem">
196     Tobias Hilbricht has updated
197     his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
198     <dd>
199    
200     </td>
201     </tr>
202     </table>
203     <p />
204    
205     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
206     <tr><td class="newsheader">
207 bernhard 625 <a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
208     </td></tr>
209    
210     <tr>
211     <td class="newsitem">
212     Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
213     we doubled the number of available
214     <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
215     Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
216     <p>
217     Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
218     <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
219     BuildImage</a>
220     system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
221     in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
222     </td>
223     </tr>
224     </table>
225     <p />
226    
227     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
228     <tr><td class="newsheader">
229 bernhard 618 <a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar,
230     Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
231     </td></tr>
232    
233     <tr>
234     <td class="newsitem">
235     <p>
236     The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
237     add-ons announced by
238     Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
239     KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
240     and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
241     Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
242     </p>
243    
244     </td>
245     </tr>
246     </table>
247    
248     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
249     <tr><td class="newsheader">
250 jpaalasm 606 <a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
251     Core 1 available</a>
252     </td></tr>
253    
254     <tr>
255     <td class="newsitem">
256     <p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
257     to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
258     Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
259     </td>
260     </tr>
261     </table>
262     <p />
263    
264     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
265     <tr><td class="newsheader">
266     <a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
267     </td></tr>
268    
269     <tr>
270     <td class="newsitem">
271     <p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
272     by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
273     </td>
274     </tr>
275     </table>
276     <p />
277    
278     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
279     <tr><td class="newsheader">
280     <a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
281     </td></tr>
282    
283     <tr>
284     <td class="newsitem">
285     <p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
286    
287     <ul>
288    
289     <li>New name: &quot;Skencil&quot;.</li>
290    
291     <li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>
292    
293     <li>Support for Python 2.3</li>
294    
295     <li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>
296    
297     </ul>
298    
299     <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
300     details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</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="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
309     </td></tr>
310    
311     <tr>
312     <td class="newsitem">
313     <p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
314     Skencil. On October the 4th
315     <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&amp;forum_id=4026">
316     "Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
317     <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&amp;forum_id=4026">
318     a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
319     Koormann.</p>
320     </td>
321     </tr>
322     </table>
323     <p />
324    
325     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
326     <tr><td class="newsheader">
327     <a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
328     </td></tr>
329    
330     <tr>
331     <td class="newsitem">
332     <p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
333     <a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
334     version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
335     </td>
336     </tr>
337     </table>
338     <p />
339    
340     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
341     <tr><td class="newsheader">
342     <a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
343     </td></tr>
344    
345     <tr>
346     <td class="newsitem">
347     <p>The gallery has two new
348     <a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by Andr&eacute;
349     Pascual</a> and new section with
350     <a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
351     St&eacute;phane Joly</a></p>
352     </td>
353     </tr>
354     </table>
355     <p />
356    
357     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
358     <tr><td class="newsheader">
359     <a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
360     </td></tr>
361    
362     <tr>
363     <td class="newsitem">
364     <p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
365     objects with a second path. This can be used to
366     quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
367     thickness locally to get more "natural"
368     effects.<br /></p>
369    
370     <p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
371     itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
372     overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
373     resulting path might be used as a starting
374     point.<br /></p>
375    
376     <p>Check out
377     <a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
378     pathstroke.py</a>.</p>
379    
380     <p><small>(newsitem written by S.
381     Budig)</small></p>
382     </td>
383     </tr>
384     </table>
385     <p />
386    
387     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
388     <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>
389    
390     <tr>
391     <td class="newsitem">
392     <p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
393     images from a sketch master. It can be used like
394     "make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
395     vector "source".</p>
396    
397     <p>Check out the
398     <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
399     BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>
400    
401     <p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
402     </td>
403     </tr>
404     </table>
405     <p />
406    
407     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
408     <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>
409    
410     <tr>
411     <td class="newsitem">
412     <p>More information on the
413     <a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
414     </td>
415     </tr>
416     </table>

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