Skencil

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Skencil
Other namesSketch
Original author(s) Bernhard Herzog
Developer(s) sK1 Project
Initial releaseOctober 31, 1998;25 years ago (1998-10-31)
Final release
0.6.17 / June 19, 2005;18 years ago (2005-06-19)
Preview release
1.0 rc1 / November 4, 2016;7 years ago (2016-11-04)
Repository https://github.com/sk1project/skencil
Written in C, Python
Engine Xlib, Tk, Tkinter, PyGTK
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS, Solaris, IRIX, AIX
Platform IA-32 (i386), DEC Alpha, m68k, PowerPC, SPARC, x86-64
Predecessor Sketch
Successor sK1
Available in10+ languages
List of languages
English, Danish, German, French, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Portugal, Brazilian Portugal, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Type Vector graphics editor
License GNU Library General Public License
Website www.skencil.org

Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. [1] [2]

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History

Its first public version, Sketch 0.5.0, was released on October 31, 1998 by Bernhard Herzog. [3] [4]

Sketch is an interactive X11 drawing program (similar to Xfig or Tgif).

— Bernhard Herzog, https://wald.intevation.org/scm/viewvc.php/skencil/skencil/trunk/README?revision=14&view=markup

Later Bernhard Reiter joined Sketch development. [5] [6]

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. [7] [8]

* README: Sketch->Skencil renaming. Web-site is now skencil.org

— Bernard Herzog, 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, 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. [9]

Revitalization

On 19 November 2006, Reiter and Herzog asked Ihor Novikov, sK1 Project lead developer, to join Skencil development. [10] [11]

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. [9] [12] [13] Source and binary packages for various Linux distributions has been published on sK1 Project's page on code.google.com, where it now archived. [14] [15]

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. [16] There are no binary packages for this release.

sK1

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. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wald: Skencil: Project Home". wald.intevation.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  2. ↑ "Graphics : Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux". www.linuxfocus.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  3. ↑ "bernhard / Profile". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  4. ↑ "Bernhard Herzog". www.intevation.de. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  5. ↑ "Bernhard Reiter". intevation.de. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  6. ↑ "ber / Profile". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  7. ↑ "Skencil - Summary [Savannah]". savannah.nongnu.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03. Renamed to Skencil October 2003.
  8. ↑ "Wald: Skencil: SCM Repository". wald.intevation.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  9. 1 2 "Skencil 1.0alpha: project revitalization". sK1 Project. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  10. ↑ Reiter, Bernhard (19 November 2006). "[Skencil-users] Join forces for skencil1/sK1? (was: sK1)" . Retrieved 2023-11-03. 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.
  11. ↑ "Join forces for skencil1/sK1?". sK1 Project. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  12. ↑ "Skencil - vector graphics editor". sK1 Project. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  13. ↑ "Skencil / News".
  14. ↑ "Google Code Archive: sK1 - Downloads". code.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  15. ↑ "sK1 Project - Skencil". sk1project.org. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16.
  16. ↑ sK1 Project (2023-08-27), sk1project/skencil , retrieved 2023-11-03{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ "Skencil / Development".
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