Skencil
Template:Infobox softwareTemplate:Not confuse Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
History
Its first public version, Sketch 0.5.0, was released on October 31, 1998 by Bernhard Herzog.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Later Bernhard Reiter joined Sketch development.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 7 February 2003, Sketch 0.7.12 development release was rolled out. It was the last under name Sketch.
Renaming
In 2003-2004, Sketch was renamed to Skencil.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Quote As claimed on its website, "Skencil is implemented almost completely in Python, a very high-level, object oriented, interpreted language, with the rest written in C for speed".
On 19 June 2005, Skencil 0.6.17 was released. It has versions compatible with Linux on the i386, DEC Alpha, m68k, PowerPC and SPARC architectures, with FreeBSD, with Solaris, with IRIX64 6.4, and with AIX. Since then development have been frozen and, as a result, its packages have been removed from Linux distributions repositories.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Revitalization
On 19 November 2006, Reiter and Herzog asked Ihor Novikov, sK1 Project lead developer, to join Skencil development.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 31 October 2010, Skencil 1.0 alpha was released, as a result of revitalization work done by sK1 Project team that made it possible to use Skencil on 64-bit hardware and modern OS at the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Source and binary packages for various Linux distributions has been published on sK1 Project's page on code.google.com, where it now archived.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 4 November 2016, Skencil 1.0 rc1 was released and the last code changes committed on 7 February 2020 on sK1 Project's page on GitHub.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> There are no binary packages for this release.
sK1
Template:Main article sK1 vector graphics editor, developed by sK1 Project team, written in wxWidgets become an independent Skencil successor (fork), improved by color management (including CMYK color space support), tabbed multiple document interface, Pango based text engine, Cairo based renderer and importers for CorelDRAW (CDR, CMX, CCX) and many other graphics file formats.
Future plans had included porting the user interface from Tk/Tkinter to GTK+, a multiple document interface, and multi-font, fully integrated multiline text, patterns fills instead of solid color, etc.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- List of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of vector graphics editors
- Inkscape (Sodipodi fork)
- pstoedit
- Xara Xtreme LX
References
External links
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- Skencil on sK1 Project
- Official website (outdated). Archived from original on 27 April 1999.
- Skencil (outdated official project page)
- Skencil (outdated official source repository)
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- Skencil on GNU Savannah (outdated)