Skencil

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Skencil 1.0 alpha on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Other names| Sketch
Original author(s)| Bernhard Herzog
Developer(s)| sK1 Project
Initial release| October 31, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-31)
Final release|

0.6.17 / June 19, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-06-19)

Preview release|

1.0 rc1 / November 4, 2016; 9 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 in| 10+ 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

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

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Renaming
* 1.2 Revitalization
* 1.3 sK1
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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).

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

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]

## See also

* List of vector graphics editors
* Comparison of vector graphics editors
* Inkscape (Sodipodi fork)
* pstoedit
* Xara Xtreme LX

## References

1. ↑ "Wald: Skencil: Project Home". https://wald.intevation.org/projects/skencil/.
2. ↑ "Graphics : Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux". http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1999/article120.html.
3. ↑ "bernhard / Profile". https://sourceforge.net/u/bernhard/profile/.
4. ↑ "Bernhard Herzog". https://www.intevation.de/~bh/index.en.html.
5. ↑ "Bernhard Reiter". https://intevation.de/~bernhard/.
6. ↑ "ber / Profile". https://sourceforge.net/u/ber/profile/.
7. ↑ "Skencil - Summary [Savannah"]. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/skencil/. "Renamed to Skencil October 2003."
8. ↑ "Wald: Skencil: SCM Repository". https://wald.intevation.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=5&scm_plugin=scmsvn.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Skencil 1.0alpha: project revitalization" (in en). https://sk1project.net/news/2010-10-31/skencil-1.0alpha-project-revitalization/.
10. ↑ Reiter, Bernhard (19 November 2006). "[Skencil-users Join forces for skencil1/sK1? (was: sK1)"]. https://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/skencil-users/2006-November/000084.html. "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?" (in en). https://sk1project.net/news/2006-11-25/join-forces-for-skencil1-sk1/.
12. ↑ "Skencil - vector graphics editor" (in en). https://sk1project.net/others/skencil/.
13. ↑ "Skencil / News". http://www.skencil.org/news.html#newsID21.
14. ↑ "Google Code Archive: sK1 - Downloads". https://code.google.com/archive/p/sk1/downloads.
15. ↑ "sK1 Project - Skencil". http://sk1project.org/viewpage.php?page_id=21.
16. ↑ sK1 Project (2023-08-27), sk1project/skencil, https://github.com/sk1project/skencil, retrieved 2023-11-03
17. ↑ "Skencil / Development". http://www.nongnu.org/skencil/devel.html.

## External links

* on GitHub
* Skencil on sK1 Project
* Official website (outdated). Archived from original on 27 April 1999.
* Skencil (outdated official project page)
* Skencil (outdated official source repository)
* Skencil on SourceForge.net (outdated)
* Skencil on GNU Savannah (outdated)

* v
* t
* e

Vector graphics editors

Free and open-source|

* Apache OpenOffice Draw
* Embroidermodder
* Inkscape
* Ipe
* Karbon
* LibreOffice Draw
* sK1
* Skencil
* SVG-edit
* Xfig
* Xara Xtreme LX

Proprietary|

* Adobe FreeHand
* Adobe Fireworks
* Adobe Illustrator
* Affinity Designer
* Canvas X
* CorelDRAW
* DrawPlus
* Microsoft Expression Design
* PhotoLine
* Sketch
* Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

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