Author Archives: Michael

I finally tracked down the problem of our official Inkscape packages not being localized on OS X. I’ve released an updated package for Inkscape 0.45 that fixes the problem. So if you’re a non-english speaking OS X Inkscape user, then … Continue reading →

Many OS X users have reported being unable to open SVG files using the open dialog in Inkscape 0.43. After much troubleshooting I was able to figure out what was causing the problem. It has been fixed in an updated … Continue reading →

The Summer of Code has offically finished up. I’ve since caught up on some sleep and a few non-SoC things. I’ve also fixed up the obvious bugs, so this seems like a good time to announce what I actually achieved … Continue reading →

I have commited the connector context to CVS. At the moment it can be used to create basic straight-line connectors and interact with and modify existing connectors, i.e., reroute, detach, or attach to new shapes. At the moment connectors can … Continue reading →

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 →

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!

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.