Hi Bernhard,<br><br>sK1 project was presented on Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montreal and it seems the presentation was sucsessful.<br><br>Among other new features we demonstrated a "brilliant" feature - universal CDR importer for CorelDRAW files from 7 version up to X3 version. This importer is backward compartible with Skencil
v.0.6.x and it's code can be found in our SVN on SF.net. CDR format reverse engineerig is a separate sK1 subproject (additional info can be found on our web site).<br><br>Comparsion tests for complex drawing show that sK1 engine (based on Skencil engine but improved by Cairo renderer) is faster than Inkscape or Scribus engines and requires smaller memory amount (on the same drawing: sK1 - 60 Mb, Inkscape - 260 Mb, Scribus - 480 Mb)
<br><br>Also it was declared that unlike Sodipodi/Inkscape pair, sK1 team and Skencil team plan joining forces for 1.0 version. Therefore we are ready to discuss this issue.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Igor Novikov<br>sK1 Team
<br><a href="http://sk1.sf.net">http://sk1.sf.net</a><br><br>P.S. Build scripts in our SVN still not ready and I need a few days to fix its.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernhard Reiter
</b> <<a href="mailto:bernhard@intevation.de">bernhard@intevation.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:47, Igor Novikov wrote:<br>> > Best is to start the in-depth discussion on skencil-devel.<br>><br>> To start discussion I need an account in skencil-devel mail list.<br><br>You can just register:
<br><a href="http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/skencil-devel">http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/skencil-devel</a><br><br><br>> Hmm... "Java based"... On my primary occupation I'm a Java developer, so I
<br>> thought about sK1 codebase porting on Java, but unfortunately desktop Java<br>> apps<br>> are heavyweight and slow under XWin even with SWT widgets. Such way in sK1<br>> development is good for coding but not for end users.
<br><br>Bernhard and myself do prefer python over Java, but if a customer must have it<br>in Java, of course we also do it. :)<br>Bernhard<br></blockquote></div><br>