Sketch stable 0.6.13 released Sketch is closest to the goal of becoming an universal drawing application for GNU/Linux [...] (LinuxUser 9/2001, pp 40, translated from German) This latest release of the leading Free Software Vector Drawing application, fixes a minor security hole and adds often requested multi-line text handling. http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ Everybody running a stable sketch version should upgrade to 0.6.13. Note a new way of contributing to Sketch through minipayments (see below). Bernhard Herzog, March 2nd, 2002 What's new ========== * Multi-line Text Handling The multi-line plugin contributed by Christof Ecker makes designing covers and posters with Sketch a lot easier. It is now possible to insert and independently edit complete text blocks. Through the modular design of Sketch's data-format, the resulting files can still be edited with earlier versions of Sketch. This nicely blends in with the curvetext and geoobject add-ons to bring you a more complete set of functionality for print design for maps and flyers. * Updated import filters Acorn Drawfile import by David Boddie. Wmf import filter supports PolyPolylines by Antoon Pardon. SVG import filter parses paths more correctly now. Illustrator import filter understands text alignment now. * new command line conversion tools: skconvert and sk2ppm Skconvert can be used to translate vector formats which Sketch understands without starting the GUI. Sk2ppm writes out raster images. * simple color separation Sketch supports exporting an image with one .eps file per color. This is just simple color separation, but should be suitable for spot-color printing. * Security fix for included external eps files. The quoting of EPS filenames when calling ghostscript for preview rendering purposes was flawed. Existence of the filename is tested before this call, somewhat limiting the way this could be exploited. For rest, check the release notes: http://sketch.sourceforge.net/relnotes.html Contributions ============= Sketch is developed by Bernhard Herzog with help from volunteers. Beside the possibility to contribute your time and give feedback, report bugs, help users, write documentation or add code, there is also the possibility to buy developers time for Sketch. This is a way of contributing with money and accelerate development. This 0.6.13 release was supported by visionary individuals who bought development time which was possible for the first time. If Sketch is useful for you, please consider paying for it. http://sketch.sourceforge.net/payments.html Many thanks go to all contributers, they make it possible to bring you a vector drawing applications with all needed freedoms and power. What is Sketch? =============== Sketch is the leading free vector drawing program for GNU/Linux and other unices. It's intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. It 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. The stable series uses TK as GUI. The development version builds on GTK+. Sketch is developed by Bernhard Herzog and released as Free Software under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). http://sketch.sourceforge.net/