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{{Infobox software
| screenshot = Skencil 1.0.0 alpha.png
| logo = Skencil-logo.png
| logo caption = Skencil logo
| caption = Skencil 1.0 alpha on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
| other_names = Sketch
| name = Skencil
| author = Bernhard Herzog
| developer = [[sK1 (program)|sK1 Project]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1998|10|31}}
| discontinued = yes
| latest_release_version = 0.6.17
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2005|06|19}}
| latest_preview_version = 1.0 rc1
| latest_preview_date = {{Start date and age|2016|11|04}}
| repo = https://github.com/sk1project/skencil
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| engine = [[Xlib]], [[Tk (software)|Tk]], [[Tkinter]], [[PyGTK]]
| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[Mac OS]], [[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]], [[IRIX]], [[AIX]]
| platform = [[IA-32]] (i386), [[DEC Alpha]], [[m68k]], [[PowerPC]], [[SPARC]], [[x86-64]]
| replaces = Sketch
| replaced_by = [[sK1 (program)|sK1]]
| language = English, Danish, German, French, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Portugal, Brazilian Portugal, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
| language count = 10+
| genre = [[Vector graphics editor]]
| license = [[GNU Library General Public License]]
| website = {{URL|www.skencil.org}}
}}{{Not confuse|Sketch (software)}}
'''Skencil''', formerly called '''Sketch''', is a [[free software]] [[vector graphics editor]], released under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wald: Skencil: Project Home |url=https://wald.intevation.org/projects/skencil/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=wald.intevation.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Graphics : Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux |url=http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1999/article120.html |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.linuxfocus.org}}</ref>

== History ==
Its first public version, ''Sketch 0.5.0'', was released on October 31, 1998 by Bernhard Herzog.<ref>{{Cite web |title=bernhard / Profile |url=https://sourceforge.net/u/bernhard/profile/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=sourceforge.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bernhard Herzog |url=https://www.intevation.de/~bh/index.en.html |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.intevation.de}}</ref>

{{Quote|text=Sketch is an interactive [[X11]] drawing program (similar to [[Xfig]] or [[Tgif (program)|Tgif]]).|author=Bernhard Herzog|source=https://wald.intevation.org/scm/viewvc.php/skencil/skencil/trunk/README?revision=14&view=markup}}

Later Bernhard Reiter joined ''Sketch'' development.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bernhard Reiter |url=https://intevation.de/~bernhard/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=intevation.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ber / Profile |url=https://sourceforge.net/u/ber/profile/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=sourceforge.net}}</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>{{Cite web |title=Skencil - Summary [Savannah] |url=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/skencil/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=savannah.nongnu.org |quote=Renamed to Skencil October 2003.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wald: Skencil: SCM Repository |url=https://wald.intevation.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=5&scm_plugin=scmsvn |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=wald.intevation.org}}</ref>
{{Quote|text=* README: Sketch->Skencil renaming.  Web-site is now skencil.org|author=Bernard Herzog|source=https://wald.intevation.org/scm/viewvc.php/skencil/skencil/trunk/README?revision=379&view=markup}}
As claimed on its website, "Skencil is implemented almost completely in [[Python (programming language)|Python]], a very high-level, object oriented, interpreted language, with the rest written in [[C (programming language)|C]] for speed".

On 19 June 2005, ''Skencil 0.6.17'' was released. It has versions compatible with [[Linux]] on the [[Intel 80386|i386]], [[DEC Alpha]], [[m68k]], [[PowerPC]] and [[SPARC]] architectures, with [[FreeBSD]], with [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], with [[IRIX]]64 6.4, and with [[AIX operating system|AIX]]. Since then development have been frozen and, as a result, its packages have been removed from Linux distributions repositories.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Skencil 1.0alpha: project revitalization |url=https://sk1project.net/news/2010-10-31/skencil-1.0alpha-project-revitalization/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=sK1 Project |language=en}}</ref>

=== Revitalization ===
On 19 November 2006, Reiter and Herzog asked Ihor Novikov, [[SK1 (program)|sK1 Project]] lead developer, to join ''Skencil'' development.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reiter |first=Bernhard |date=19 November 2006 |title=[Skencil-users] Join forces for skencil1/sK1? (was: sK1) |url=https://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/skencil-users/2006-November/000084.html |access-date=2023-11-03 |quote=I have chatted a bit with Bernhard (Herzog) and my idea was: Why not join forces on a tcl/tk based Skencil1/sK1 development? Bernhard's initial reaction was quite positive.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Join forces for skencil1/sK1? |url=https://sk1project.net/news/2006-11-25/join-forces-for-skencil1-sk1/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=sK1 Project |language=en}}</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 computing|64-bit]] hardware and modern OS at the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Skencil - vector graphics editor |url=https://sk1project.net/others/skencil/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=sK1 Project |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Skencil / News |url=http://www.skencil.org/news.html#newsID21}}</ref> Source and binary packages for various Linux distributions has been published on ''sK1 Project''<nowiki/>'s page on [[code.google.com]], where it now archived.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Code Archive: sK1 - Downloads |url=https://code.google.com/archive/p/sk1/downloads |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=code.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=sK1 Project - Skencil |url=http://sk1project.org/viewpage.php?page_id=21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116072931/http://sk1project.org/viewpage.php?page_id=21 |archive-date=2013-01-16 |access-date= |website=sk1project.org}}</ref>

On 4 November 2016, ''Skencil 1.0 rc1'' was released and the last code changes committed on 7 February 2020 on ''sK1 Project''<nowiki/>'s page on [[GitHub]].<ref>{{Citation |last=sK1 Project |title=sk1project/skencil |date=2023-08-27 |url=https://github.com/sk1project/skencil |access-date=2023-11-03}}</ref> There are no binary packages for this release.

=== sK1 ===
{{Main article|SK1 (program)}}
''sK1'' vector graphics editor, developed by sK1 Project team, written in [[wxWidgets]] become an independent ''Skencil'' successor ([[Fork (software development)|fork]]), improved by [[color management]] (including [[CMYK]] [[color space]] support), tabbed [[multiple document interface]], [[Pango]] based text engine, [[Cairo (graphics)|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 (software)|Tk]]/[[Tkinter]] to [[GTK+]], a [[multiple document interface]], and multi-font, fully integrated multiline text, patterns fills instead of solid color, etc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Skencil / Development |url=http://www.nongnu.org/skencil/devel.html}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
* [[List of vector graphics editors]]
* [[Comparison of vector graphics editors]]
* [[Inkscape]] ([[Sodipodi]] fork)
* [[pstoedit]]
* [[Xara Xtreme LX]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|www.skencil.org}}
* {{GitHub|https://github.com/sk1project/skencil}}
* [https://sk1project.net/others/skencil/ Skencil] on [[SK1 (program)|sK1 Project]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990427062937/http://www.online.de/home/sketch/Default.htm Official website] (outdated). Archived from [http://www.online.de/home/sketch/Default.htm original] on 27 April 1999.
* [https://wald.intevation.org/projects/skencil/ Skencil] (outdated official project page)
* [https://wald.intevation.org/scm/viewvc.php/skencil/ Skencil] (outdated official source repository)
* {{SourceForge|https://sourceforge.net/projects/sketch/}} (outdated)
* [https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/skencil/ Skencil] on [[GNU Savannah]] (outdated)

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