What Is Sketch? =============== Sketch is an interactive X11 drawing program (similar to XFig or tgif). It is written almost completely in Python, an object oriented interpreted programming language. This version is part of the development series and is not suitable for production use. You should be able to get a stable version from the place where you got this release. To compile and run Sketch, you need some additional software. Have a look at the file INSTALL to see what you need and how to install Sketch. NEWS: ===== See the file NEWS for a list of changes since earlier versions. For a list of the changes planned for 0.7.x, see the file TODO. For up to date information about Sketch, have a look at the Sketch web page , or contact the author . There's also a mailing list for all Sketch-related things. You can subscribe to it via the web-interface at http://www.frozenriver.nu/mailman/listinfo/sketch-list or by sending a mail with the word subscribe in the subject to sketch-list-request@frozenriver.com Limitations: ============ The current version is very experimental and far from complete and it may be difficult to run it on other platforms than Linux (not because the code is intentionally Linux specific, I simply haven't tested it elsewhere). The platform supported best is the one I use myself and that is Linux 2.2.x and XFree86 3.3.3 on a Pentium with a video-card capable of displaying TrueColor visuals. The following limitations apply: o Currently, only TrueColor visuals with depths of 15, 16, 24 or 32 bits. I haven't ported the 8-bit PseudoColor visuals support to gtk yet. o Rotated and otherwise transformed text requires (as far as I know) at least X11R6. License ======= Most of Sketch is released under the GNU Library General Public License (see the file COPYING for details). The only exceptions are the stream filters (in the Filter directory). See the respective READMEs for details.