The text tool- Version 0.3.1 + Version 0.4
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
Xournal can be downloaded at +http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ or http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ Xournal can be downloaded at
The text tool+ To insert a new text item, click at the location where the text is to be + inserted on the page, then type it in or paste it using the contextual + menu (note: no wrapping is performed). To modify a text item, click inside + it. The font and point size can be modified using the "Text Font" command + in the Tools menu (or the toolbar button). The color is the same as that + currently selected for the pen (and can be modified using the toolbar + buttons). +
++ Text items can contain arbitrary Unicode characters, provided that a + suitable font is installed on your system. However, languages written + in a direction other than left-to-right might not be handled properly. + If a journal contains some items in a font that is unavailable on your + system, another one will be substituted. (Also, text items will be + lost if the document is opened in a version of Xournal prior to 0.4). + Finally, note that the printing and PDF export features only accept + TrueType and Type 1 scalable fonts (do not use any bitmap fonts), and + that the typesetting of the text may be slightly different in the + printout. +
The rulerThe ruler is not a tool by itself, but rather a special operating mode @@ -134,15 +158,17 @@ the Tools menu):
Default tools
- Each drawing tool (pen, eraser, highlighter) has a default setting
- (color, thickness, ...) associated to it.
- The "Default Pen", "Default Eraser", and "Default Highlighter" entries of
+ Each tool (pen, eraser, highlighter, text) has a default setting
+ (color, thickness, ... for the drawing tools, font and size for the
+ text tool) associated to it.
+ The "Default Pen", "Default Eraser", "Default Highlighter", and
+ "Default Text" entries of
the Tools menu select the appropriate tool and reset its settings to
the defaults. The toolbar also includes a "Default" button which
- resets the currently selected drawing tool to its default settings,
+ resets the currently selected tool to its default settings,
and a "Default Pen" button.
The "Set As Default" entry of the Tools menu takes the current settings
- of the currently selected drawing tool and makes them the new default.
+ of the currently selected tool and makes them the new default.
@@ -190,6 +216,11 @@ the Tools menu):
cursor above the top of the page so that the entire block being moved
becomes invisible results in the items being moved to the previous page.
+
Hand tool+ This tool lets you browse the journal; dragging the cursor scrolls the + view. +
All operations performed on the currently open journal (drawing, erasing, @@ -464,7 +495,8 @@ file is much more compact than those produced via gnome-print, and its pages have the same size as in Xournal. Highlighter strokes are rendered in a partially transparent manner (note however that applications such as xpdf and ghostview do not always handle -PDF transparency properly). +PDF transparency properly). Text items are rendered by embedding +TrueType subsets or Type 1 fonts into the PDF document as appropriate.
Xournal also includes a PDF file parser compatible with PDF format @@ -477,6 +509,30 @@ file, the backgrounds are converted to (compressed) bitmaps and a new PDF file is generated from scratch.
+Starting with version 0.3.2, Xournal's configuration settings can be +saved to a file (~user/.xournal/config) by using the "Save +Preferences" command in the Options menu. The settings saved in the +configuration file include in particular: +
@@ -499,9 +555,43 @@ Bug reports and suggestions can also be submitted on Xournal's
+Version 0.4 (August 15, 2007): +
+Version 0.3.3 (January 31, 2007): +
+Version 0.3.2 (November 25, 2006): +
Version 0.3.1 (August 3, 2006):
Version 0.3 (July 23, 2006): @@ -567,14 +657,6 @@ Version 0.1.1 (January 5, 2006):
Version 0.1 (January 2, 2006): initial release.
--Features yet to be implemented: -
Xournal stores its data in gzipped XML-like files. The gzipped data consists of a succession of XML tags describing the document. By convention, the -first few lines contain a header in the following format: +file header and trailer look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> +<xournal version="..."> <title>Xournal document - see http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/</title> -<xournal version="..."/> +... sequence of pages ... +</xournal>The <title> and <xournal> tags may only appear within the file header (not within the pages of the document). The version attribute of the <xournal> tag indicates which version of Xournal was used to create the document; it is currently ignored, but may be used in a later release if the file format changes in an incompatible manner. +(Following a suggestion of Matteo Abrate, starting with version 0.4 the +<xournal> tag is the document's root tag, and encloses all other tags).
The rest of the file is a sequence of pages, specified by a @@ -666,15 +752,15 @@ page of the PDF file. After the line specifying the background, the remainder of a <page> section is occupied by one or more layer sections
<layer> ... </layer>-describing the various strokes within a layer. Every page must +describing the various items within a layer. Every page must contain at least one layer; a layer may be empty. The successive layers are listed in their stacking order, from bottom to top.
-A layer consist of a collection of items, listed in the order in which +A layer consists of a collection of items, listed in the order in which they should be drawn (from bottom-most to top-most). -As of the current version, the only legal contents within a layer are +Up to version 0.3.3, the only legal contents within a layer are strokes. The format of a stroke is:
<stroke tool="..." color="..." width="..."> ... list of coordinates ... @@ -708,6 +794,25 @@ appropriate (otherwise the eraser tool will not interact properly with the stroke). The default precision used by Xournal for the x,y coordinates is 0.01 unit (1/7200 in). +Starting with version 0.4, layers also contain text items. +The format of a text item is: +
<text font="..." size="..." x="..." y="..." color="...">... text ...</text> ++The font attribute contains the font name, for example "Serif Bold +Italic"; if the font is not available, another font will be substituted. +The size attribute specifies the font size in points. The x +and y attributes specify the coordinates of the top-left corner +of the text box in page coordinates (measured in points from the top-left +corner of the page). Finally, the color attribute contains either +the name of a standard color or a hexadecimal RGBA value (see above). + ++The contents of the text are encoded in UTF-8, with the characters +'&', '<', '>' replaced by &, <, +>. Whitespace and linefeeds are preserved (in particular, +no extraneous whitespace should be inserted between the enclosing tags +and the text itself). +
Installation issues
@@ -851,6 +956,20 @@ installation instructions specific to your model: for example, the use USB instead; the BottomX and BottomY values correspond to the physical resolution of the tablet and will vary from one model to another. ++For historical reasons, most X servers do not allow the input device +designated as the "core pointer" in the X server's configuration file +to be used as an XInput extension device. Thus, your tablet input devices +should not be designated as the core pointer device. Instead, they +should be configured with the "SendCoreEvents" option, which enables them +to simultaneously generate XInput extension events and move the cursor on +the screen. Since high-resolution coordinates cannot be obtained for the +core pointer device, it is disabled in Xournal by default. +Starting with version 0.3.3, +it is possible to have core events processed alongside with extension +events (uncheck "Discard Core Events" in the Options menu); however, in +some rare cases this may lead to a loss of resolution on all devices. +
The cursor doesn't appear in the right place...
If the mouse pointer does not follow accurately the position of the stylus, @@ -890,19 +1009,20 @@ Do not add a list of xsetwacom commands to your startup files).
Strokes aren't drawn under the cursor...
-This is due to misfeatures in the linuxwacom driver. Typically, this -will happen in all of the following cases: +This is due to misfeatures in the linuxwacom driver in versions prior +to 0.7.6. Typically, this will happen in all of the following cases:
I have also had a report that one of the workarounds used by Xournal to @@ -918,8 +1038,8 @@ contact me.
You need an X server that supports the RANDR extension, and a -patched version of the linuxwacom -driver to support on-the-fly rotation. +recent (0.7.6 or later) or patched +version of the linuxwacom driver to support on-the-fly rotation.
To set the tablet in portrait mode: @@ -943,12 +1063,14 @@ Exit Xournal and restart it after the display has been rotated. This patch fixes rotation and calibration issues with the linuxwacom driver version 0.7.0.
+This patch has been included in version 0.7.6 of the linuxwacom driver, +and should now be obsolete.