Xournal User's Manual
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- Version 0.4.6
+ Version 0.4.7
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that the typesetting of the text may be slightly different in the
printout.
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+<h3 class="subsub"> The image tool</h3>
+<p>
+ To insert a new image (from a file on disk), click at the location
+ where the upper-left corner is to be located. A file selection dialog
+ box pops up. Alternatively, images can be pasted directly from the
+ clipboard (without having to select the image tool). In both cases,
+ the newly inserted image is selected, and can be easily moved or resized
+ as with any selection.
+</p>
<h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/ruler.png"> The ruler</h3>
<p>
The ruler is not a tool by itself, but rather a special operating mode
or to a different journal) using the copy-paste toolbar buttons or the
corresponding entries of the Edit menu.
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+<h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/lasso.png"> Lasso selection</h3>
+<p>
+ This tool lets you select an irregular shaped region of the current layer.
+ All the items which are entirely contained within the given region
+ are selected. As with the rectangle selection tool, the selection can be moved,
+ resized, copied and pasted.
+</p>
<h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/stretch.png"> Vertical space</h3>
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This tool lets you insert or remove vertical space within the page:
The source code includes contributions by the following people:
Alvaro, Kit Barnes, Eduardo de Barros Lima, Mathieu Bouchard,
Ole Jørgen Brønner, Robert Buchholz, Vincenzo Ciancia, Luca de Cicco,
-Michele Codutti, Robert Gerlach, Daniel German, Dirk Gerrits,
-Lukasz Kaiser, Timo Kluck, David Kolibac, Danny Kukawka, Stefan Lembach,
-Bob McElrath, Andy Neitzke, David Planella, Marco Poletti, Alex Ray,
-Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Marco Souza, Mike Ter Louw, Uwe Winter, Lu Zhihe.
+Michele Codutti, Robert Gerlach, Daniel German, Dirk Gerrits, Simon Guest,
+Lukasz Kaiser, Ian Woo Kim, Timo Kluck, David Kolibac, Danny Kukawka,
+Stefan Lembach, Bob McElrath, Andy Neitzke, David Planella, Marco Poletti,
+Alex Ray, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Victor Saase, Marco Souza, Mike Ter Louw,
+Uwe Winter, Lu Zhihe.
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<p style="font-size:0.9em">(Let me know if you are missing from this list or
if your name is mis-spelled)</p>
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<h2 class="subtitle">Version history</h2>
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+Version 0.4.7 (July 4, 2012):
+<ul>
+ <li>insert image tool (based on patches by Victor Saase and Simon Guest)
+</li><li>renamed "Journal" menu to "Page"
+</li><li>paste images and text directly from and to other applications
+</li><li>lasso tool (based on patch by Ian Woo Kim)
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>
Version 0.4.6 (May 22, 2012):
<ul>
<li>win32 portability code (contributed by Dirk Gerrits)
no extraneous whitespace should be inserted between the enclosing tags
and the text itself).
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+<p>Starting with version 0.4.7, layers can also contain image items.
+The format of an image item is:
+<pre><image left="..." top="..." right="..." bottom="...">... data ...</image>
+</pre>
+The <i>left</i>, <i>top</i>, <i>right</i> and <i>bottom</i> attributes
+specify the bounding box to which the image is scaled, in page coordinates
+(measured in points from the top-left corner). The data is in base64-encoded
+PNG format (though any other base64-encoded format that can be loaded by
+gdk-pixbuf is currently accepted).
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<h2 class="subtitle">Installation issues</h2>