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Downloads: 716
Developer: Bernhard Herzog | More programs by this producer
License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)
Price: FREE 
Last Updated: July 18th, 2005 10:01
Category: MAIN :: Multimedia :: Graphics
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Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes.

A somewhat unique (for a drawing program) feature of Skencil is that it is implemented almost completely in a very high-level, interpreted language, Python. Python is powerful, object-oriented and yet easy to use.

Here are some key features of "Skencil":

ˇ Bézier Curves
ˇ Transformed text and images
ˇ Bézier curves, rectangles and ellipses can be used as guides
ˇ Gradient fills
ˇ Blend groups
ˇ Writes EPS files
ˇ Rectangles, optionally with rounded corners
ˇ Ellipses (full ellipses, pie slices, arcs and chords)
ˇ Bézier curves (single and multi path)
ˇ External images:
o Raster images: JPEG, PNG,...
(all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
o Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
ˇ Text (very simple at the moment)
ˇ Rectangles, ellipses and bézier curves can be used as guides. Skencil has ordinary horizontal and vertical guide lines as well, of course.
ˇ Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of arbitrary objects
ˇ Text can be converted to bézier curves. (This works only if Skencil has access to the PostScript Type 1 font files (pfa or pfb)).
ˇ Text along a path:
ˇ User scripts
ˇ Exports Encapsulated PostScript
ˇ Unlimited undo history

What's New in This Release:

ˇ Prepare for Python 2.4:
ˇ Update paxtkinter to deal with python's Tkinter changes
ˇ The .sk file format is now the default file format in the File/Open dialog. Patch by Frank Koormann
ˇ The setup.py script works on HP-UX now. Shared libraries have a .sl extension there. Patch by Olivier Mehani (Savannah patch #3709).
ˇ Mouse-wheel support for the canvas. The mouse wheel scrolls up/down. Savannah patch #3836 by cafeine
ˇ Updated the FAQ a bit to better match the one on the web-page.
ˇ Kinyarwanda translations by Steve Murphy. The translation seems quote incomplete.

Bug Fixes:

ˇ On some systems math.atan2 raises an exception when called with two zeros. Fix one occurrence in the arrow module. Reported by Joel Biddier
ˇ Cancelling the drawing of a poly line or poly bezier with ESC resulted in tracebacks until the next mouse click. Reported by Antoon Pardon (Savannah bug #9378). Patch by Valentin Ungureanu (Savannah patch #3141).
ˇ The "Export Raster" script gives a better error message if ghostscript can't be called. Bug reported by Eric Devost
ˇ When importing EPS files, skencil didn't parse %%BeginData comments correctly. Fixed by Savannah patch #3134 by Bernhard Reiter
ˇ The svg export filter now sets the winding rule for all objects to even-odd. Savannah patch #3103 by Philippe Blayo, fixes Savannah bug #5756 by Simon Budig.
ˇ The SVG filter handles ill-formed transform specifications a bit better. The old version would hang in a regular expression match if the triling closing parenthesis of e.g. a matrix specification was missing. Bug report by Joel Biddier
ˇ The svg import filter also accepts capital Z as closepath command of a path specification as required by the SVG specification. Savannah Patch #3587 by Bernhard Reiter.
ˇ In the print dialog, when the user clicked on the file selection button and cancelled the dialog, Skencil would give an exception. This is now fixed.
ˇ The usage messge printed when the --help option is given on the command line now correctly refers to "skencil" not "sketch" anymore.
ˇ The source URL in the spec file now refers to skencil as well. It still points to sourceforge, though. Patch by Paul Dickson
ˇ The setup.py script now finds the tcl/tk libraries on OpenBSD as well (savannag bug #12046)
ˇ Already in 0.6.16, but not mentioned before: Skencil's type1 font parsing code could not cope with some type1 files -- files with no subrs or with flexes. Now it can. Bug report by André Pascual


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