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   Xournal User's Manual
 </h2>
 <p style="font-size: 0.95em; text-align: center; color: rgb(0,0,0)">
- Version 0.3
+ Version 0.3.3
 </p>
 <hr />
 <p>
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 </p>
 <p>
 Xournal can be downloaded at
+<a href="http://xournal.sourceforge.net/">http://xournal.sourceforge.net/</a> or 
 <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/">http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/</a>
 </p>
 <p>
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ Xournal can be downloaded at
   <li> <a href="manual.html#tools">The drawing and selection tools</a> </li>
   <li> <a href="manual.html#pages-layers">Pages, layers, and backgrounds</a> </li>
   <li> <a href="manual.html#printing">Printing</a> </li>
+  <li> <a href="manual.html#configuration">Configuration</a> </li>
   <li> <a href="manual.html#author">Author information, license, bug-reports</a> </li>
   <li> <a href="manual.html#changelog">Version history</a> </li>
   <li> <a href="manual.html#file-format">The file format</a> </li>
@@ -190,6 +192,11 @@ 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.
 </p>
+<h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/hand.png"> Hand tool</h3>
+<p>
+  This tool lets you browse the journal; dragging the cursor scrolls the
+  view.
+</p>
 <h3 class="subsub">Undo and redo</h3>
 <p>
   All operations performed on the currently open journal (drawing, erasing,
@@ -477,6 +484,30 @@ file, the backgrounds are converted to (compressed) bitmaps and a new
 PDF file is generated from scratch.
 </p>
 <hr />
+<a name="configuration"></a>
+<h2 class="subtitle">Configuration</h2>
+<p>
+Starting with version 0.3.2, Xournal's configuration settings can be
+saved to a file (<tt>~user/.xournal/config</tt>) by using the "Save
+Preferences" command in the Options menu. The settings saved in the
+configuration file include in particular:
+<ul>
+<li>general display preferences: zoom level, window size, ...</li>
+<li>default paper settings (as set by the "Set As Default" command in
+the Journal menu)</li>
+<li>default tool settings for the pen, eraser, and highlighter
+(as set by the "Set As Default" command in the Tools menu)</li>
+<li>mappings for buttons 2 and 3</li>
+<li>the various preferences set in the Options menu</li>
+</ul>
+The configuration file also gives access to additional customization
+options which cannot be set from the user interface, such as: the
+display resolution in pixels per inch, the step increment in zoom factors,
+the tool selected at startup, the thickness of the various drawing tools,
+the default directory for opening and saving files, the visibility and
+position of the menu and toolbars, ...
+</p>
+<hr />
 <a name="author"></a>
 <h2 class="subtitle">Author information, license, bug-reports</h2>
 <p>
@@ -499,6 +530,33 @@ Bug reports and suggestions can also be submitted on Xournal's
 <a name="changelog"></a>
 <h2 class="subtitle">Version history</h2>
 <p>
+Version 0.3.3 (January 31, 2007):
+<ul>
+ <li>bugfix: upon loading a new file, zoom is set to default startup zoom</li>
+ <li>config option to allow input from a mouse or other core pointer device</li>
+ <li>config file entry to specify a default location for open/save
+     (patch contributed by Andy Neitzke)</li>
+ <li>config file entries to customize visibility and position of toolbars</li>
+ <li>icon (thanks to Michele Codutti)</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>
+Version 0.3.2 (November 25, 2006):
+<ul>
+ <li>preferences file and Save Preferences command</li>
+ <li>extra customization (via preferences file)</li>
+ <li>minor UI changes (patch contributed by Eduardo de Barros Lima)</li>
+ <li>hand tool (partially contributed by Vincenzo Ciancia)</li>
+ <li>a few bugfixes in rendering of bitmap backgrounds</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+Version 0.3.1 (August 3, 2006):
+<ul>
+ <li>fixed a file format bug on systems with non-standard numeric locale
+     (bug reported by Gert Renckens)</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>
 Version 0.3 (July 23, 2006):
 <ul>
  <li>new PDF rendering engine: export to PDF generates optimized files
@@ -562,14 +620,6 @@ Version 0.1.1 (January 5, 2006):
 <p>
 Version 0.1 (January 2, 2006): initial release.
 </p>
-<p>
-Features yet to be implemented:
-<ul>
- <li>freeform selection tool</li>
- <li>preferences file; persistent printer settings</li>
- <li>various functionalities (flatten layers, ...)</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
 <hr />
 <a name="file-format"></a>
 <h2 class="subtitle">The file format</h2>
@@ -846,6 +896,20 @@ 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.
 </p>
+<p>
+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 <b>not</b> 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.
+</p>
 <h3 class="subsub">The cursor doesn't appear in the right place...</h3>
 <p>
 If the mouse pointer does not follow accurately the position of the stylus,
@@ -885,19 +949,20 @@ Do not add a list of xsetwacom commands to your startup files).
 </p>
 <h3 class="subsub">Strokes aren't drawn under the cursor...</h3>
 <p>
-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:
 <ul>
 <li> the calibration settings have been changed after the X server was
 started (using xsetwacom) </li>
 <li> the calibration TopX or TopY values are not 0 </li>
 <li> the display has been rotated </li>
 </ul>
-Future versions of the driver may fix these issues. Meanwhile, you can
+Most of these issues should have been fixed in version 0.7.6 of the
+wacom driver. Otherwise, you can
 either disable XInput support in Xournal (in the Options menu), at a
 price of a severe loss of resolution (and the eraser tip won't be detected
 anymore), or apply this <a href="manual.html#wacompatch">patch</a>
-to the wacom driver.
+to version 0.7.0 of the wacom driver.
 </p>
 <p>
 I have also had a report that one of the workarounds used by Xournal to
@@ -913,8 +978,8 @@ contact me.
 <h3 class="subsub">On-the-fly display rotation</h3>
 <p> 
 You need an X server that supports the RANDR extension, and a
-<a href="manual.html#wacompatch">patched</a> version of the linuxwacom
-driver to support on-the-fly rotation.
+recent (0.7.6 or later) or <a href="manual.html#wacompatch">patched</a> 
+version of the linuxwacom driver to support on-the-fly rotation.
 </p>
 <p>
 To set the tablet in portrait mode:
@@ -938,12 +1003,14 @@ 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.
 <ul>
-<li>The <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/linuxwacom-0.7.0-rotate-patch">patch
+<li>The <a href="http://xournal.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom-0.7.0-rotate-patch">patch
 file</a> for the linuxwacom source code (also included with the Xournal
 distribution).</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/linuxwacom-rotate-patch.tar.gz">patched
+<li>The <a href="http://xournal.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom-rotate-patch.tar.gz">patched
 binaries</a> for the X.org X server.</li>
 </ul>
+This patch has been included in version 0.7.6 of the linuxwacom driver,
+and should now be obsolete.
 </p>
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