Sketch 0.6.4 - A Vector Drawing Program

[Bernhard Herzog]

Sketch 0.6.4 - A vector drawing program


Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux and other unices.  It's
intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams
and other purposes.

Despite the low version number, it already has advanced features like
gradients, text along a path and clip masks and is fully scriptable due
to its implementation in a combination of Python and C.


News:
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This is mainly a bug-fix release.

Summary of the Changes since 0.6.3:

    * Bug fixes, most notably for the EPS-related bug in Sketch's
      PostScript prolog.

    * Updated Spanish translations

    * More color icons

    * The mkfontdb.py script can also generate Fontmap files now

Please also note that Sketch has moved to a new location:

       http://sketch.sourceforge.net/



Homepage:
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http://sketch.sourceforge.net/


Features:
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        o Drawing primitives:

                o Rectangles
                o Ellipses
                o Bezier curves
                o Bitmap images: JPEG, GIF,...
                  (all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
                o Encapsulated PostScript
                o Text

        o All objects, including images and text, can be rotated,
          scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are
          possible)

        o Gradient fills

        o Special Effects and Features:

		o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides
                o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of
                  arbitrary objects
                o Text can be converted to bezier objects.
                o Text along Path

        o Exports Encapsulated PostScript, SVG and Adobe Illustrator files

        o Imports Adobe Illustrator, Corel CMX, SVG, XFig and WMF files

        o Fully scriptable in Python

For more information, have a look at the Sketch webpage.



License:
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Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License.


<P><A HREF="http://sketch.sourceforge.net/">Sketch 0.6.4</A> - a vector
drawing program for Unix written in Python.  (11-Jan-2000)

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