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   <a name="newsID120">2006-03-28: Skencil mailinglists migrated to wald.intevation.de</a>
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    The skencil mailinglists from Savannah are now migrated to wald.intevation.de. Reasons for migration from Savannah to wald in general can be read <A href="http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sketch-devel/2006-01/msg00002.html">here</A>
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    Updated Information on the new mailinglists can be found on the
     <a href="./mailinglists.html">mailinglist page</a>.
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   <a name="newsID19">2006-03-08: Debian Sarge Backport available</a>
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    A backport for sarge is now available on
    <a href="http://backports.org">backports.org</a> 
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    Information on how to to get this package can be found on
     <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
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   <a name="newsID18">2006-02-18: Daniel Baumann official Debian Maintainer</a>
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    Daniel Baumann announced to take over the maintainership for Skencil's
    Debian package from Gregor Hoffleit. Daniel already uploaded a new unstable
    package into Debian and will also do a backport to Sarge.
    He got interested in Skencil by a friend.
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    To find the packages, as always: Use the
     <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
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   <a name="newsID17">2006-01-03: New Softproof plugin (colour management); 
	updated Debian packages and screenshots</a>
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	A happy new year to all Skencilers. Here is the roundup what
	had happened in the end of last year:
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	Tobias Hilbricht published a plugin which can be used to
	estimate colour in printouts.
	Check the <a href="./addon.html#softproof">Add-ons Page</a>
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	Tobias also released new Debian packages which are now
	linked from the <a href="./download.html#debian">download page</a>.
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	Two new cool <a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a> 
	for MacOS X have been added. Produced by Christian Ferber!
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   <a name="newsID16">2005-10-30: New Gallery image: Anna04</a>
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      A new drawing by Pavel Stovicek, "Anna04", has been added to the
      gallery.  This drawing together with Pavel's other drawing "Stay
      with us" is now a <a href="gallery.html#N8">separate Gallery
      section</a>.
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   <a name="newsID15">2005-09-20: Build notes for Mac OS X</a>
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    Stewart Midwinter can use his favourite vector-based graphics program
    on his Mini Mac now. And he wrote down what you need to do 
    if you want to be 
    <a href="http://midtoad.homelinux.org/wp/?p=116"
    >running Skencil on Mac OS X</a>.
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   <a name="newsID14"
   >2005-07-12: New Binaries and request for packaging help</a>
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	Binary packages for Suse, RedHat, Fedora and Debian
	can be found from
	the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
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	Still the Skencil Project needs more help with packaging.
	Debian is looking for a new package maintainer 
	and other popular distributions like Mandriva or Ubuntu
	are lacking uptodate Skencil packages. Help us to 
	bring the stable funcationality of Skencil to even more users:
	Lobby for nicely configured packages in your favourite distribution.
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   <a name="newsID13">2005-06-19: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.17</a>
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      <p>Changes since 0.6.16:</p>

      <ul>

	<li>Support for Python 2.4</li>

	<li>The .sk file format is now the default file format in the
	  File/Open dialog.</li>

	<li>Bug fixes</li>

      </ul>

      <p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
	details. Sources are available from
	the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.
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   <a name="newsID12">2005-03-10: Experimental binary packages for 0.6.17pre3</a>
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  Experimental binary packages for Skencil 0.6.17pre3 have been made:
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  <li>
  <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jbiddier/suse/"
  >RPMS for Suse</a>
	by Joel Biddier 
  <li>
  <a href="http://www.linopus.de/skencil/skencil_0.6.17pre3-4_i386.deb"
  >Debian i386 .deb</a>
	by  Tobias Hilbricht
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  Give those packagers some feedback! ;-)

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   <a name="newsID11">2005-01-20: Waratah plant drawing new in gallery</a>
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<p>The gallery section grew a waratah plant 
<a href="gallery.html#N7">drawn by Tobias Hilbricht</a>.
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   <a name="newsID10">2004-12-06: German Manual updated.</a>
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    Tobias Hilbricht has updated 
    his <a href="http://www.linopus.de/sketch.php">German Skencil Manual</a>.
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   <a name="newsID9">2004-11-11: Screenshots updated; BuildImage 1.0 .</a>
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	Skencil is more than a screenshot tiger. To prove this,
	we doubled the number of available 
	<a href="./screenshots.html">screenshots</a>.
	Tell your friends and waste some bandwidth!
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	Terry Hancock released 1.0 of his unique 
	<a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
BuildImage</a>
	system, which allows Skencil drawings to be used as sources
	in automated build systems with several graphic targets.
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   <a name="newsID8">2004-09-28: New Add-ons turn in: skLaTeX, Calendar, 
	Equal-area projection, PolygloText, Autoshapes.</a>
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	The last four weeks have seen a bunch of new
	add-ons announced by 
	Joel Biddier (skLaTeX), 
	KAJIYAMA Tamito (Calendar, Equal-area projection, PolygloText)
	and Christof Ecker (Autoshapes).
	Check the <a href="addon.html">Add-ons Page</a>
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   <a name="newsID7">2004-03-04: Skencil RPMs for Red Hat 7.3 - 9 and Fedora
   Core 1 available</a>
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<p>Axel Thimm has added Skencil and PIL (Python Imaging Library)
to his ATrpms apt / yum repository. 
Check the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
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   <a name="newsID6">2004-01-31: New Gallery Section</a>
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<p>There's a new section in the gallery with <a href="gallery.html#N6">drawings
by Joel Biddier.</a></p>
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   <a name="newsID5">2004-01-17: New stable version, Skencil 0.6.16</a>
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<p>Changes since 0.6.15:</p>

<ul>

<li>New name: &quot;Skencil&quot;.</li>

<li>New look with new icons by Taiabati.</li>

<li>Support for Python 2.3</li>

<li>WMF export, Updated CGM filters (Antoon Pardon, Lukasz Pankowski)</li>

</ul>

<p>See the <a href="relnotes.html#N1">release notes</a> for more
details. Sources are available from the <a href="download.html#N1">download page</a>.</p>
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   <a name="newsID1">2004-01-03: New Name: Skencil</a>
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      <p>"Bernhard Herzog's Sketch" will be renamed to
      Skencil. On October the 4th
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3233391&amp;forum_id=4026">
      "Skencil" was selected as new name</a> after
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3204833&amp;forum_id=4026">
      a short search</a>. The name was suggested by Frank
      Koormann.</p>
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   <a name="newsID2">2003-11-18: Windows version available</a>
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      <p>Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
      <a href="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/">Windows
      version</a> of Skencil's development branch.</p>
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   <a name="newsID3">2003-11-01: New Gallery Images</a>
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      <p>The gallery has two new
      <a href="gallery.html#N2">drawings by Andr&eacute;
      Pascual</a> and new section with
      <a href="gallery.html#N5">drawings by
      St&eacute;phane Joly</a></p>
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   <a name="newsID4">2003-06-07: New Addon: PathStroke by Simon Budig</a>
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      <p>PathStroke traces the outline of bezier path
      objects with a second path. This can be used to
      quickly draw a bezier shape and then vary the line
      thickness locally to get more "natural"
      effects.<br /></p>

      <p>Right now the resulting path might intersect
      itself when the source path has very sharp curves,
      overlaps itself or has edge-anchors. However, the
      resulting path might be used as a starting
      point.<br /></p>

      <p>Check out
      <a href="http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/sketch/pathstroke.py">
      pathstroke.py</a>.</p>

      <p><small>(newsitem written by S.
      Budig)</small></p>
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  <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-05-17: New Addon: BuildImage by Terry Hancock</td></tr>

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      <p>BuildImage can help you to maintain raster
      images from a sketch master. It can be used like
      "make" to keep bitmaps uptodate regarding their
      vector "source".</p>

      <p>Check out the
      <a href="http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage">
      BuildImage Tutorial</a>.</p>

      <p><small>(newsitem added by B.Reiter)</small></p>
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  <tr><td class="newsheader">2003-02-07: New development version, 0.7.12.</td></tr>

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      <p>More information on the
      <a href="devel.html#N1">development page</a>.</p>
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