Its first public version,
Sketch 0.5.0, was released on October 31, 1998 by Bernhard Herzog. Later Bernhard Reiter joined
Sketch development. 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. 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.
Revitalization On 19 November 2006, Reiter and Herzog asked Ihor Novikov,
sK1 Project lead developer, to join
Skencil development. 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. Source and binary packages for various Linux distributions has been published on
sK1 Project's page on
code.google.com, where it now archived. 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. 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. ==See also==