Monthly Archives: July 2005
When straight lines aren’t
Today’s been a pretty good day for Inkscape coding. Aside from once again having the bad choice of extending DrawContext confirmed, I managed to pass several little hurdles and get the connectors connecting to shapes. That is, get the connector … Continue reading
SoC Progress
This is basically a report on my progress, as posted to the inkscape-devel list this morning, but with lots of spelling and grammer corrections!
Powerbook Problems
Well, I’m sitting here right now, installing Debian on a dekstop computer at my place. Why? Because, for about the last year I’ve been using an Apple Powerbook as my main development machine and it just died. I opened the … Continue reading
Paper Acceptance
My paper entitled “Incremental Connector Routing” was accepted to Graph Drawing 2005 so I’ll be going to Limerick, Ireland in mid September to present it. This paper describes the algorithms that are used in the “libavoid” code, that will be … Continue reading
Drawing connectors in Inkscape
It’s time to start blogging about this project more actively I think. David Yip, one of the other Inkscape SoCers is putting me to shame. Haven’t seen any blogging from the other two SoC people yet though. I feel like … Continue reading
Inkscape on OS X
While this doesn’t have to do with the Summer of Code work, it’s still quite cool. Inkscape 0.42 will have an OS X .app style release, just like Gimp.app. I’ve spent a fair bit of time over the last month … Continue reading
Summer of Code
Well, I was accepted in Google’s Summer of Code. So for the next couple of months I’ll be adding connectors to Inkscape, an open source vector graphics editor. You can read my proposal here.