Skencil A free and interactive vector drawing tool
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A free and interactive vector drawing tool Skencil is an open source and interactive vector drawing program for Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and other UNIX compatible systems. Skencil is implemented almost completely in Python, a very high-level, object oriented, interpreted language, with the rest written in C for speed. NOTE: Detailed instruction on how to install Skencil on your Mac can be found HERE. Here are some key features of "Skencil": · Bézier curves · Transformed text and images · Bézier curves, rectangles and ellipses can be used as guides · Gradient fills · Blend groups · Writes EPS files · Text along a path Requirements: · Python · X11 · PIL What's New in This Release: · Prepare for Python 2.4: Update paxtkinter to deal with python's Tkinter changes · The .sk file format is now the default file format in the File/Open dialog. Patch by Frank Koormann · The setup.py script works on HP-UX now. Shared libraries have a .sl extension there. Patch by Olivier Mehani (Savannah patch #3709). · Mouse-wheel support for the canvas. The mouse wheel scrolls up/down. Savannah patch #3836 by cafeine · Updated the FAQ a bit to better match the one on the web-page. · Kinyarwanda translations by Steve Murphy. The translation seems quote incomplete. Bug Fixes: · On some systems math.atan2 raises an exception when called with two zeros. Fix one occurrence in the arrow module. Reported by Joel Biddier · 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). · The "Export Raster" script gives a better error message if ghostscript can't be called. Bug reported by Eric Devost · When importing EPS files, skencil didn't parse %ginData comments correctly. Fixed by Savannah patch #3134 by Bernhard Reiter · 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. · 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 · 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. · 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. · The usage messge printed when the --help option is given on the command line now correctly refers to "skencil" not "sketch" anymore. · The source URL in the spec file now refers to skencil as well. It still points to sourceforge, though. Patch by Paul Dickson · The setup.py script now finds the tcl/tk libraries on OpenBSD as well (savannag bug #12046) · 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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