Xournal User's Manual
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- Version 0.3.1
+ Version 0.3.2
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<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>
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.
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+<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,
PDF file is generated from scratch.
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+<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,
+...
+</p>
+<hr />
<a name="author"></a>
<h2 class="subtitle">Author information, license, bug-reports</h2>
<p>
<a name="changelog"></a>
<h2 class="subtitle">Version history</h2>
<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
<p>
Version 0.1 (January 2, 2006): initial release.
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-<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>
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<h2 class="subtitle">The file format</h2>
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<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.
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<p>
I have also had a report that one of the workarounds used by Xournal to
<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:
<li>The <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/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.
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