History
A small team led by Igor Novikov started the project in 2003, based on the existing open source vector graphics editor Skencil. It was based on the Skencil 0.6.x series which used Tk widgets for a GUI. This version was dropped by the main Skencil developers who have since started developing a new branch of the program based on GTK+ (although this version remains immature compared to the 0.6.x series). sK1 has therefore become a fork. Although an attempt was made to unify the project with Skencil, it failed.
In 2007 the sK1 team reverse-engineered the CDR format. The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada). Later on the team parsed the structure of other Corel formats with the help of CDR Explorer. As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDRAW file formats among open source software programs.
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