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: -----

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: ---------

http://sketch.sourceforge.net/

Features: ---------

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: --------

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)