Publisher review:Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it 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.
Skencil has the usual drawing primitives found in a vector drawing program:
- Rectangles, optionally with rounded corners
- Ellipses (full ellipses, pie slices, arcs and chords)
- Bézier curves (single and multi path)
External images:
- Raster images: JPEG, PNG,...
- (all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
- Text (very simple at the moment)
- All objects, including images and text, can be rotated, scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are possible)
Special Effects and Features
- Rectangles, ellipses and bézier curves can be used as guides. Skencil has ordinary horizontal and vertical guide lines as well, of course.
- Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of arbitrary objects
- Text can be converted to bézier curves. (This works only if Skencil has access to the PostScript Type 1 font files (pfa or pfb)).
- Text along a path
Skencil 0.6.17 is a C/C++ script for Image Tools scripts design by Bernhard Herzog.
It runs on following operating system: Linux / BSD.
Operating system:Linux / BSD
Skencil 0.6.17 script details 
