InkDrawing support

[alopezrivera]

InkDrawings, that is, the format used by OneNote to store your hand-drawn notes, are exported to Word without information as to where they were located in the OneNote page. This loss means that, unfortunately, your drawings will be scrambled on export with no way to recover them to their original form.

This is a major inconvenience for digitial pen users. Unfortunately, there is little owo can do about this.

In an ideal world, all InkDrawings in a note would be identified and bundled by owo before export (perhaps even the entire content of pages containing InkDrawings), turned into SVGs and saved alongside other note media, then deleted from the OneNote page to proceed to Word and markup export, and finally references to such SVGs would be added in their place in the exported markup notes. Alas, I stopped being a heavy pen user long ago and do not have the time to look into it.

Another possibility would be to export OneNote notes to some other Microsoft document format which does support InkDrawing location information (perhaps .pub?), and then use Pandoc to export those to your markup of choice. That may mean however replacing the current issue with a similar one in the next step, as whether InkDrawings would be correctly bundled and exported as images/SVGs in the Pandoc export step would be the question then.

Two workarounds are currently available, both unsatisfactory:

• Manually replace all your drawings by screenshots of them before export. If you are a heavy pen user this is impracticable. Furthermore, your drawings will lose much of their resolution, making this a bad solution.
• Export PDFs of your notes alongside with their markup files. You can achieve this by setting $exportPdf = 2 in your config.ps1. This way your drawings will keep their full resolution, albeit locked in PDF format. The export process will be slower and its output multiplied by two without clue as to which notes contained InkDrawings, making this too a bad solution.