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| 2006-03-28: Skencil mailinglists migrated to wald.intevation.de |
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The skencil mailinglists from Savannah are now migrated to wald.intevation.de. Reasons for migration from Savannah to wald in general can be read here
Updated Information on the new mailinglists can be found on the mailinglist page. |
| 2006-03-08: Debian Sarge Backport available |
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A backport for sarge is now available on
backports.org
Information on how to to get this package can be found on download page. |
| 2006-02-18: Daniel Baumann official Debian Maintainer |
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Daniel Baumann announced to take over the maintainership for Skencil's
Debian package from Gregor Hoffleit. Daniel already uploaded a new unstable
package into Debian and will also do a backport to Sarge.
He got interested in Skencil by a friend.
To find the packages, as always: Use the download page. |
| 2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management); updated Debian packages and screenshots |
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A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
had happened in the end of last year:
Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to estimate colour in printouts. Check the Add-ons Page Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now linked from the download page. Two new cool screenshots for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber! |
| 2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04 |
| 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 separate Gallery section. |
| 2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X |
| 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 running Skencil on Mac OS X. |
| 2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help |
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Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
can be found from
the download page.
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. |
| 2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17 |
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Changes since 0.6.16:
See the release notes for more details. Sources are available from the download page. |
| 2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3 |
Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
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| 2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery |
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The gallery section grew a waratah plant drawn by Tobias Hilbricht. |
| 2004-12-06: German Manual updated. |
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Tobias Hilbricht has updated
his German Skencil Manual.
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| 2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 . |
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Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
we doubled the number of available
screenshots.
Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique BuildImage system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources in automated build systems with several graphic targets. |
| 2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes. |
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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 Add-ons Page |
| 2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora Core 1 available |
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Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library) to his ATrpms apt / yum repository. Check the download page. |
| 2004-01-31: New Gallery Section |
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There's a new section in the gallery with drawings by Joel Biddier. |
| 2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16 |
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Changes since 0.6.15:
See the release notes for more details. Sources are available from the download page. |
| 2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil |
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"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to Skencil. On October the 4th "Skencil" was selected as new name after a short search. The name was suggested by Frank Koormann. |
| 2003-11-18: Windows version available |
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Joonas Paalasmaa has done a Windows version of Skencil's development branch. |
| 2003-11-01: New Gallery Images |
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The gallery has two new drawings by André Pascual and new section with drawings by Stéphane Joly |
| 2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig |
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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. 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. Check out pathstroke.py. (newsitem written by S. Budig) |
| 2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock |
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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". Check out the BuildImage Tutorial. (newsitem added by B.Reiter) |
| 2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12. |
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More information on the development page. |
