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Ink Blog Plugin goes Gold!

Version 1.0 of the Ink Blog Plugin for Windows Live Writer is now available!  You may download it free here

The self installer will overwrite any previous beta versions, just make sure WLW is not running when you install (or you may be required to reboot).

Most of the changes from Beta 2 to v1.0 were minor bug fixes, tweaks, and the October 1, 2006 expiration was removed.  (NOTE: If you are using Beta 2, please upgrade ASAP, since it will quit working soon).

 

There were two features I really wanted to get in, but couldn't (A Call for Help):

  • Ability to show / hide recognized text on the blog pages
  • Ability to hyperlink inside the ink

I was able to get both of these working inside my test blog, but as soon as I tested on other blog service/software everything broke.  It seems that many blog packages strip out certain HTML, JS and CSS tags inside the post, presumably for security, which makes sense.  So finding the right combination that will work on the major blogs, without being stripped out, seems to be difficult. 

I'm sure there is a HTML/CSS guru out there who could whip this up quickly, but unfortunately this is not an area of expertise for me (though it's been a lot of fun learning!) and I did just not have the time to get it in V1.  If you are an expert, and would like to help here, please get in touch.  Since this is a free product, the only pay will be the joy of knowing thousands of people are using (or at least downloading) something you helped create.  You do not need to be a .NET or plugin programmer to help here, you would just need to supply the sample HTML etc.. in a text document, and I can integrate it into the code.

That's all for now folks, please keep the great feedback and suggestions coming!

Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:00 AM by EdH

Comments

Ed Hintz said:

This should be pre-installed on the Virginia Tech engineering student's tablet PCs.

http://news.com.com/Tablet+PCs+required+for+Virginia+Tech+engineers/2100-1041_3-6090046.html

# September 26, 2006 12:21 PM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# September 26, 2006 4:50 PM

Jo Wu said:

Great for meeting my quick blogging inking needs. Any way for to change background color or set to transparent?

# September 29, 2006 4:57 PM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# September 30, 2006 11:16 AM

EdH said:

Jo Wu - Can you post a link to the blog where you are having background problems?

-Ed

# September 30, 2006 4:25 PM

MiniMage said:

Refresh my memory, please. Is this supposed to work in Vista?

# October 3, 2006 10:30 AM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

I had a blog comment today wondering if the Ink Blog Plugin runs under Vista. Oddly enough, I had not

# October 3, 2006 12:14 PM

admin said:

MiniMage,

It runs fine under Vista.  Please see post here for specifics:

http://www.edholloway.com/Blog/archive/2006/10/03/Testing-Ink-Blog-Plugin-From-Vista-RC1.aspx

# October 3, 2006 12:15 PM

Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! said:

I'm still loving Windows Live Writer for creating Blog Articles! It's great to be able to create the

# October 6, 2006 2:53 PM

Jane Lewis's Weblog said:

I like many of my blogging colleagues have been using Windows Live Writer for a while now to construct

# October 6, 2006 7:26 PM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

I had a blog comment today wondering if the Ink Blog Plugin runs under Vista. Oddly enough, I had not

# October 7, 2006 1:37 PM

folding dummy said:

Hey, Ed, everybody should know how WELL it works to copy and paste from Windows Journal into the ink blog windows. It's not like a basic image that comes over as an inherently grouped object. All the pieces are still "live" and can be individually editable. Top notch!!

I've been transferring some sketches I already made over to the Web this way for my students.

--romy

# October 18, 2006 9:46 PM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

UPDATE - Please note the newest version (v1.0) is now available here I've just released an updated

# October 22, 2006 12:33 PM

Jo Wu said:

Ed, Here's link to an interim blog where the PNG saved is  not transparent.

http://jowu.blogspot.com/

# October 27, 2006 1:07 AM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# November 21, 2006 11:19 PM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# November 21, 2006 11:20 PM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

It seems that I have won an award in the 2nd Annual InkBlots , sponsored by Warner Coker over at Life

# December 6, 2006 10:52 PM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# December 14, 2006 10:04 AM

UMPC Buzz said:

Gottabemobile has just uploaded a video interview with Ed Holloway.Ed Holloway is quite active on a number

# December 14, 2006 11:11 AM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

Several weeks back Warner and Dennis from GottaBeMobile.com dropped the office while they were in town

# December 14, 2006 12:45 PM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

I've read several posts , and received even more emails over the past few months about folks having trouble

# December 17, 2006 11:23 AM

kevinh2 said:

I seem to have a high error rate for text recognition with the plugin.  So, I tried an experiment based upon a comment from above.  I created ink with Journal and had it convert to text.  It did so without error. I then pasted the ink into the plugin and had it do a text conversion and came up with a close conversion, but not correct.  I've been using the plugin to do my inkblog, but not as consistently as I would like due to the manual corrections I need to make and the slower conversion time.

So I am wondering why there are different results?

thanks,

Kevin

# December 21, 2006 1:07 PM

EdH said:

Kevin,  No Clue why this is happening it is using the same recognition engine as journal (and anything else on the Tablet PC).  Maybe using the lined paper and writing in that would help some?

I'll probably update the plugin (at some point) to use the newer Ink Analysis API which is much more accurate in my experience.

# December 23, 2006 3:31 PM

Sylvain said:

Great plugin for tabletPC users. I'm using it with to post on DotClear, uploading images via FTP. Worked great   since the last days.

I've a strange issue while trying to access drafts. For regular drafts (means no ink blog in it), I can access them without any pb but when trying to reload a draft containing ink, I've a nice error message

http://wikiwak.free.fr/misc/ErrorReport.txt

Do any other users have this kind of issues? Any way to fix it?

thanks

Sylvain

# January 18, 2007 5:27 AM

admin said:

Sylvain - Thanks for the input.  I'll look into a fix for this.

# January 18, 2007 2:49 PM

Patrick Steele's .NET Blog said:

Download it now!

# March 27, 2007 2:26 PM

welcome to EdHolloway.com! said:

The Live Writer team released Beta 2 today. It has quite a few new features, and an update GUI that looks

# May 30, 2007 11:09 PM

dougcar said:

Trying it out but get broken image in wordpress using both my xp and my vista machines. Any advice? All seems to work up until i push pubish. Normal live writer blogging works fine.

# June 3, 2007 3:27 PM

GottaBeMobile.com said:

# June 8, 2007 9:22 AM

EdH said:

Doug - send me a PM from the 'About' page here, and I'll see if we can figure this out.

# June 16, 2007 7:13 AM

Elan's Aggregated Blogs said:

Download it now!

# August 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0 said:

Gottabemobile has just uploaded a video interview with Ed Holloway . Ed Holloway is quite active on a

# September 23, 2007 6:36 PM

Buck Hodges said:

The first version of Windows Live Writer is now available. I've been using the betas for a long time,

# November 6, 2007 10:47 PM

Noticias externas said:

The first version of Windows Live Writer is now available. I've been using the betas for a long time

# November 6, 2007 11:10 PM

The Tablet PC / Ultra-Mobile PC News and Reviews Source said:

# November 15, 2007 8:02 AM

Pocket.Info - Mobile 2.0 said:

Sumocat keeps slowly but surely assembling a coterie of Ink Bloggers using his Build 52 tool. His most

# November 15, 2007 9:02 AM

GottaBeMobile said:

# November 29, 2007 1:46 PM

Pocket.Info - Mobile 2.0 said:

When Microsoft and their partners launched Tablet PC five years ago, there was a lot of hope that new

# November 29, 2007 2:03 PM

GottaBeMobile said:

# January 21, 2008 7:26 AM

Bits and Bytes said:

Δεν έχω καταφέρει να βρω λύση για το sleep/resume πρόβλημα (γυρνώντας με resume έχω απλά μια μαύρη οθόνη)

# February 16, 2008 9:49 AM

Bits and Bytes said:

Δεν έχω καταφέρει να βρω λύση για το sleep/resume πρόβλημα (γυρνώντας με resume έχω απλά μια μαύρη οθόνη)

# February 16, 2008 9:50 AM

GottaBeMobile said:

# April 12, 2008 10:12 AM

hemocue said:

I am trying to run this with Windows 7, and I keep getting an error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException. It says it cannot find Microsoft.mshtml. Any suggestions?

# November 25, 2009 2:31 PM
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