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1 jpaalasm 606 title: Skencil / News
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4     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
5     <tr><td class="newsheader">
6     <a name="newsIDx">date: title</a>
7     </td></tr>
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10     <td class="newsitem">
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12     </td>
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17 derearl 654 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
18     <tr><td class="newsheader">
19     <a name="newsID19">2006-03-08: Debian Sarge Backport available</a>
20     </td></tr>
21     <tr>
22     <td class="newsitem">
23     A backport for sarge is now available on
24     <a href="http://backports.org">backports.org</a>
25     <p />
26     Information on how to to get this package can be found on
27     <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
28     </td>
29     </tr>
30     </table>
31     <p />
32 jpaalasm 606
33     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
34     <tr><td class="newsheader">
35 bernhard 652 <a name="newsID18">2006-02-18: Daniel Baumann official Debian Maintainer</a>
36     </td></tr>
37    
38     <tr>
39     <td class="newsitem">
40     Daniel Baumann announced to take over the maintainership for Skencil's
41     Debian package from Gregor Hoffleit. Daniel already uploaded a new unstable
42     package into Debian and will also do a backport to Sarge.
43     He got interested in Skencil by a friend.
44     <p />
45     To find the packages, as always: Use the
46     <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
47     </td>
48     </tr>
49     </table>
50     <p />
51    
52     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
53     <tr><td class="newsheader">
54 bernhard 648 <a name="newsID17">2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management);
55     updated Debian packages and screenshots</a>
56     </td></tr>
57    
58     <tr>
59     <td class="newsitem">
60     A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
61     had happened in the end of last year:
62     <p>
63     Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
64     estimate colour in printouts.
65     Check the <a href="./addon.html#softproof">Add-ons Page</a>
66     <p>
67     Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
68     linked from the <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
69     <p>
70     Two new cool <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>
71     for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
72     </td>
73     </tr>
74     </table>
75     <p />
76    
77     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
78     <tr><td class="newsheader">
79 bh 644 <a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
80     </td></tr>
81    
82     <tr>
83     <td class="newsitem">
84     A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
85     gallery. This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
86     with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
87     section</a>.
88     </td>
89     </tr>
90     </table>
91     <p />
92    
93     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
94     <tr><td class="newsheader">
95 bernhard 641 <a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
96     </td></tr>
97    
98     <tr>
99     <td class="newsitem">
100     Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
101     on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do
102     if you want to be
103     <a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
104     >running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
105     </td>
106     </tr>
107     </table>
108     <p />
109    
110     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
111     <tr><td class="newsheader">
112 bernhard 637 <a name="newsID14"
113     >2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
114     </td></tr>
115    
116     <tr>
117     <td class="newsitem">
118     Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
119     can be found from
120     the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
121     <p>
122     Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
123     Debian is looking for a new package maintainer
124     and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
125     are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to
126     bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
127     Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
128     </p>
129    
130     </td>
131     </tr>
132     </table>
133     <p />
134    
135     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
136     <tr><td class="newsheader">
137 bh 634 <a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
138     </td></tr>
139    
140     <tr>
141     <td class="newsitem">
142 bh 643 <p>Changes since 0.6.16:</p>
143 bh 634
144     <ul>
145    
146     <li>Support for Python 2.4</li>
147    
148     <li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
149     File/Open dialog.</li>
150    
151     <li>Bug fixes</li>
152    
153     </ul>
154    
155     <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
156     details. Sources are available from
157     the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
158     </p>
159    
160     </td>
161     </tr>
162     </table>
163     <p />
164    
165     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
166     <tr><td class="newsheader">
167 bernhard 631 <a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
168     </td></tr>
169     <tr>
170     <td class="newsitem">
171     Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
172     <ul>
173     <li>
174     <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
175     >RPMS for Suse</a>
176     by Joel Biddier
177     <li>
178     <a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
179     >Debian i386 .deb</a>
180     by Tobias Hilbricht
181     </ul>
182     Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)
183    
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 629 <a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
192     </td></tr>
193    
194     <tr>
195     <td class="newsitem">
196     <p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant
197     <a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
198     </p>
199     </td>
200     </tr>
201     </table>
202     <p />
203    
204     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
205     <tr><td class="newsheader">
206 bernhard 626 <a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
207     </td></tr>
208    
209     <tr>
210     <td class="newsitem">
211     Tobias Hilbricht has updated
212     his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
213     <dd>
214    
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 bernhard 625 <a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
223     </td></tr>
224    
225     <tr>
226     <td class="newsitem">
227     Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
228     we doubled the number of available
229     <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
230     Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
231     <p>
232     Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique
233     <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
234     BuildImage</a>
235     system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
236     in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
237     </td>
238     </tr>
239     </table>
240     <p />
241    
242     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
243     <tr><td class="newsheader">
244 bernhard 618 <a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar,
245     Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
246     </td></tr>
247    
248     <tr>
249     <td class="newsitem">
250     <p>
251     The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
252     add-ons announced by
253     Joel Biddier (skLaTeX),
254     KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
255     and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
256     Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
257     </p>
258    
259     </td>
260     </tr>
261     </table>
262    
263     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
264     <tr><td class="newsheader">
265 jpaalasm 606 <a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
266     Core 1 available</a>
267     </td></tr>
268    
269     <tr>
270     <td class="newsitem">
271     <p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
272     to his ATrpms apt / yum repository.
273     Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
274     </td>
275     </tr>
276     </table>
277     <p />
278    
279     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
280     <tr><td class="newsheader">
281     <a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
282     </td></tr>
283    
284     <tr>
285     <td class="newsitem">
286     <p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
287     by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
288     </td>
289     </tr>
290     </table>
291     <p />
292    
293     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
294     <tr><td class="newsheader">
295     <a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
296     </td></tr>
297    
298     <tr>
299     <td class="newsitem">
300     <p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>
301    
302     <ul>
303    
304     <li>New name: &quot;Skencil&quot;.</li>
305    
306     <li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>
307    
308     <li>Support for Python 2.3</li>
309    
310     <li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>
311    
312     </ul>
313    
314     <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
315     details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</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="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
324     </td></tr>
325    
326     <tr>
327     <td class="newsitem">
328     <p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
329     Skencil. On October the 4th
330     <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&amp;forum_id=4026">
331     "Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
332     <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&amp;forum_id=4026">
333     a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
334     Koormann.</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="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
343     </td></tr>
344    
345     <tr>
346     <td class="newsitem">
347     <p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
348     <a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
349     version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
350     </td>
351     </tr>
352     </table>
353     <p />
354    
355     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
356     <tr><td class="newsheader">
357     <a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
358     </td></tr>
359    
360     <tr>
361     <td class="newsitem">
362     <p>The gallery has two new
363     <a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by Andr&eacute;
364     Pascual</a> and new section with
365     <a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
366     St&eacute;phane Joly</a></p>
367     </td>
368     </tr>
369     </table>
370     <p />
371    
372     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
373     <tr><td class="newsheader">
374     <a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
375     </td></tr>
376    
377     <tr>
378     <td class="newsitem">
379     <p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
380     objects with a second path. This can be used to
381     quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
382     thickness locally to get more "natural"
383     effects.<br /></p>
384    
385     <p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
386     itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
387     overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
388     resulting path might be used as a starting
389     point.<br /></p>
390    
391     <p>Check out
392     <a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
393     pathstroke.py</a>.</p>
394    
395     <p><small>(newsitem written by S.
396     Budig)</small></p>
397     </td>
398     </tr>
399     </table>
400     <p />
401    
402     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
403     <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>
404    
405     <tr>
406     <td class="newsitem">
407     <p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
408     images from a sketch master. It can be used like
409     "make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
410     vector "source".</p>
411    
412     <p>Check out the
413     <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
414     BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>
415    
416     <p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
417     </td>
418     </tr>
419     </table>
420     <p />
421    
422     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="newstable" width="80%">
423     <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>
424    
425     <tr>
426     <td class="newsitem">
427     <p>More information on the
428     <a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
429     </td>
430     </tr>
431     </table>

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