New tools for handwritings: Ink Creator
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Ink Creator 1.0 Beta 1


Features
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Create/edit Ink (Handwriting) and save for later use, like resend in MSN Messenger.
You can use any color and any width.
This tools is still in beta, that means I cannot guarantee your ink's safety.


Install require
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Require Windows XP/2003, Windows 2000 should, but didn't confirmed.
You must had install .NET framework 1.1, 1.0 may work, but didn't confirmed.
You can get it from Windows Update, or you can get it during Setup program.
InkRedist.zip maybe require, if you can't execute, try to get it from:
http://www.msgplus.net/plugins/handwriting.zip


Work with MSN Messenger
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Currently just support drag from Ink Creator to MSN Messenger,
or copy/paste from MSN Messenger to Ink Creator.

Send to MSN Messenger
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(MSN Messenger must had handwriting enabled)
Open MSN Messenger chat window, switch to "Handwriting",
drag the last toolbar button to the handwriting area of MSN Messenger then drop,
the ink will appear in MSN Messenger.

Copy from MSN Messenger
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Send out handwriting message in MSN Messenger,
click at that message and copy (press CTRL-C), then paste in Ink Creator.


Selection
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Click Edit-Select then drag lasso around the object,
release and the inner strokes will be selected.
Then you can cut/copy, change color/width to these strokes.

File format
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Ink Serialized Format (ISF) is the best format for Ink saving.
XML format use base64 encoding for general use.
HTML format save as gif image. That gif image does contain ink metadata
for later use, but currently this tool cannot load gif with ink.
You can open .isf file from explorer, or drag .isf file to Ink Creator.


Program
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Modify from samples in Tablet PC Platform SDK v1.5
I won't spend much time to improve this tool.
If anyone wish to improve it, I'm glad to give you the source code.

Bug report or suggestions
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Please report to MSN Messenger board, English is welcome.
I may or may not accept to modify bugs or suggestions.


Author:
ChrisTorng (Traditional Chinese)

wow!! seems very nice...
* Choli downloads

This piece of software is great I like it...

Oh well, it crashed with .net framework error : °Ñ¼Æ¿ù»~ (<- big-5 encode) And I didn't remember very well what I was doing as it came too fast...

So it is beta version... Because I am new to .NET programming, and I still cannot understand well about Ink programming, because this program is modify from samples... So I still cannot understand whole source code... And till now I cannot get correct result to drag from MSN Messenger to Ink Creator, or drag from Ink Creator to Word... I think this program is the 1st ink program for non Tablet PC...?

I think it's worth to public on mess.be, but after submit for 4 days, still nothing... Are there any one can verify whether they receive my submit or not?
And tell you all the new feature now I had: it can load any picture file and convert to ink image! So you can sent it in msn. The advantage is ink image needn't other people to accept file transfer, wait for finish, click open, then see that picture in another image software. Ink message can be send and view directly in msn!

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Originally posted by ChrisTorng
it can load any picture file and convert to ink image!

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maybe you should work with the creators of the handwriting plug-in to get loads of features into it and possibly their colour selctor box pop up thingy. you would make a great team

I like the program.
*chaos_grenade downloads.*

Yay a ncie progrm

I would run it, but I need 23 mb of software which I would have to download on dial up. Any chance of this being programmed in VB or something else?

"Load any picture file and convert to ink image" have many issues bad. Like bad performance, display have some white line... these issues maybe cannot be fix, because ink is not design for display picture! It just can be use in very small image, or less color image. And currently there is a big bug of memory leak... each second consume more than 1mb bytes... so cannot be download now.
I had design for better color selector.
It won't be rewritten in VB or something else, so very sorry to dial up users.
Thanks for any who tell mess.be for this tool.

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Originally posted by tomfletcherman
I would run it, but I need 23 mb of software which I would have to download on dial up. Any chance of this being programmed in VB or something else?

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Originally posted by Fukafly
maybe you should work with the creators of the handwriting plug-in to get loads of features into it and possibly their colour selctor box pop up thingy. you would make a great team

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Ink can be supported by VB6/C++, because it had managed/automation apis. There are VB6/C++ samples in TabletPC SDK, but fewer than C#.

YOu know whay woudl be great!    A command line converter to convert the isf files to other formats like gif or bmp.

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Originally posted by mattaustin
YOu know whay woudl be great!    A command line converter to convert the isf files to other formats like gif or bmp.

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Im aying it would be cool if there was one...i would like to find one...or i wish someone as smart as you could make one

Currently you can use my Auto Save Handwriting to save sent ink into bmp...

i use that for bmp's and your ink creator for gifs...but i need to automate this with perl or a batch file

Oh... so... Currently these tools are not in developing... Maybe I will restart in future... to consider your request. You just want a isf to jpg/bmp command line tool? Or a combination of Auto Save Handwriting and Ink Creator?

command line tool!!!