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The new GardenSketch Community |
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Written by Jeffrey Bedell
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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This site is intended to be a place where GardenSketch users can get and post news, chat in forums, and help contribute to GardenSketch, In the downloads area you can download and upload examples an plant pictures. The Community area contains forums to discuss gardening and landscaping issue, in addition to GardenSketch. You can also recommend news articles and gardening sites. I hope that you enjoy the new features. |
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First Development Build Posted |
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Written by Jeffrey Bedell
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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We have posted the first development build of GardenSketch to the download page. Development builds are experimental versions of GardenSketch. These builds are useful in order to see and comment on new features, and contain fixes for bugs in the latest beta or release version. However, they have not undergone extensive testing, so you should expect other problems and issues. Please let us know what you think. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 August 2007 )
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Announcing GardenSketch beta 5 |
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Written by Jeffrey Bedell
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 |
Announcing the release of beta5 of Redstart GardenSketch.Beta 5 adds significant new features and resolves many issues, including:New Features - Built as a universal binary
- GardenSketch now displays most non-plant items in color, for drawing styles which include color.
- Added more non-plant items
- Added menus of common plants, making it even easier to plants. The menus include plants popular many regions. Since GardenSketch is open source software, you can help add popular plants for your region.
- Enhanced the reference image feature (old aerial photo) to import a scale drawings
- Added a "ShoppingList" report for plants to purchase.
- You can create the list for one or for all vendors
- You can create list for one garden plot, or the entire landscape
- You can include volume calculations for mulch
- You can display pictures of the plants in the list
- You can include annuals to repurchase for next year
- Changed to a new file format
- can include background pictures in the project
- Saves space and load time
- Option to use standard XML
- Added a new new plant style where plants drawings grow and shrink
- Added more backdrop materials (dirt, bark mulch, white)
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 August 2007 )
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