Arsenik 0.3

About Arsenik
Arsenik is a set of tools for type setting flash cards. I started writing it when studying pathology in Padova and used it extensively during surgical exams. After I graduated development slacked off but now I need it to type set decks based on the anatomy course of Uppsala University.

It consists of a deck editor written in pygtk and training apps.

A card has two pages being either SVG or text. The editor allows editing SVG data externally in Inkscape and exporting the deck as a 300 dpi PDF. The editor is tested in fedora and debian, it once ran on OS X and might still do so.

Trainer apps exist for Maemo 5 and OS2008.

Currently Arsenik is well suited to create and learn decks. The maemo trainer app is primitive but tuned through the course of many exams to work effectively.

Changes (1½ year of development)

• External editing in Inkscape
• More robust PDF-export
• Manually bind librsvg if python bindings not available
• SVG rendering code respects target size and DPI
  
• Each deck has a title card
• New, simpler, deck format
• Bug fixes...
  

Plans
Validating Arsenik as a tool for producing print quality documents. This primarily means adding support for outputting print marks and completing the anatomy decks.

Trying it out
Debian package: http://arsenik.garage.maemo.org/files/arsenik_0.3_all.deb
Maemo package: http://arsenik.garage.maemo.org/files/arsenik-maemo_0.3_all.deb
Archive of sources: http://arsenik.garage.maemo.org/files/arsenik-0.3.tar.gz

When you find bugs, please report them in the bug tracker.