Skencil
 Skencil is an
interactive vector drawing
appliction. Therefore a Skencil drawing
is made up of shapes like rectangles, ellipses and curves that can be
filled and stroked. Each object is represented by the mathematical
description of its shape, e.g. for a circle they are the coordinates of
the center point and the length of the radius.
Skencil is a flexible and
powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other
purposes.
A somewhat unique (for a drawing program) feature of
Skencil is that it is implemented almost completely in a
very high-level, interpreted language,
Python.
Python
is powerful,
object-oriented and yet easy to use.
Features include:
- Drawing Primitives including Rectanges, Ellipses,
Bézier Curves, External images, EPS images & text
- Bézier curves, rectangles and ellipses can be
used as guides
- Fill properties including gradient fills
- Special Effects such as blend groups, text along a path
- Import Filters allow Skencil to read different file
formats. Currently Skencil has import filters for XFig (.fig), Adobe
Illustrator (.ai) files, Corel CMX, Windows 3.1 Metafiles, Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) and for its own file format
- Export Filters allow Skencil to write the drawing to
various file formats. Skencil has filters for its own format and for
Adobe Illustrator, PDF and SVG files
- Writes EPS files
- Unlimited undo history
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Skencil also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
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included in that separate article.
Last Updated Friday, December 05 2008 @ 04:57 AM EST
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