List of features to be implemented (not in any particular order)
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+- collaborative editing (see discussion with Erik Demaine)
+- porting to Win32 and MacOS
+- multiple-scenario undo history
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+- improve recognizer: two passes for polygons (low tolerance, then higher)
+ to better detect elongated rectangles? (if low tolerance recognizer
+ doesn't get a rectangle, then use higher tolerance for everything else,
+ since otherwise there's too much risk of splitting a segment into 2)
+- snap-to-grid (also for ruler & recognizer vertices)
+ and maybe also snap-to-vertices (option for ruler and recognizer)?
+- allow broken PDF with some 19-byte xref entries (LF instead of CRLF).??
+ (Phil Rhoades 3/25/08)
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+- render page to bitmap: for export, preview, and copy-paste
+ (render using libart, see how gnomecanvas does it?)
+ (copy-paste: config option to render only current layer or all below?)
+- cut-and-paste of selection into other apps (as bitmap; as SVG?)
+- navigation sidebar with bitmap page previews
+- bitmap preview for document icon in desktop environments?
+- "organizer" side panel (hierarchy of notes), cf. gjots
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- paste text directly into xournal, from xournal?
- (instead of starting a text item and pasting into it)
+ (instead of starting a text item and pasting into/from it)
+- increase width of spinPageNo to fit 3 digits
+- a command + keyboard shortcut to switch mappings (1<->2, 1<->3, 2<->3)
+ (A. Rechnitzer Sept 11, 2007)
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+- lasso tool
- internationalization / translation of interface
-- integration into desktop environment (document icons/previews?
- mime type? click on xoj opens it? list app in start menu?)
+- switch to poppler instead of pdftoppm; with exact float dpi settings
+- load PDF pages only on demand (create empty pixmaps at first if can
+ parse PDF geometry ourselves, else try pdfinfo ??)
+ (and config option to limit total memory usage for PDF bitmaps)
+- ability to select entire page for copy-paste (as bitmap / reorder xournal)
+- copy/paste of an entire page (beware if PDF bg is not compatible!)
- rewrite printing using GtkPrint + Cairo as GnomePrint replacement
(keep GnomePrint option for compatibility with GTK+ <2.10)
+- insert images (screen capture or from file or from clipboard),
+ not as full-page backgrounds (new ITEM type)
+- convert to/from Jarnal format; to/from MS Journal format???
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+- sticky notes (anchor visually text box to a bg location)
+- use relative paths for bg documents (e.g. annotated PDF)
+- flush display queue when drawing over a slow X server?
+- more paper customization (in particular, 1/2 inch graph paper)
+- option to map a button to a context menu (incl. tool selection, ...)
+- option to map a button to "undo"
- xournal_page-shadow.diff (Martin Kiefel Feb 5 2007)
-- "organizer" side panel (hierarchy of notes), cf. gjots
- xoj2pdf on command line
- 'insert blank page after' command (more useful in PDF annot !)
- load images as bg if given on command-line (as with PDF on commandline)
-- load PDF pages only on demand (create empty pixmaps at first if can
- parse PDF geometry ourselves, else try pdfinfo ??)
- (and config option to limit total memory usage for PDF bitmaps)
- lasso selection tool (see shoffsta patch)
(http://shoffsta.afraid.org/Projects/Xournal/)
- flatten (incl undo/redo...) - enabled only if nlayers>1
-- resize selection
- color chooser (papercolor, pen color); maybe more default colors
- printing: print-options, save printer settings (throughout a session,
and on disk) (maybe a separate config file .xournal/gnome-print-settings)
- help index
-- pressure sensitivity
-- insert images (screen capture or from file or from clipboard),
- not as full-page backgrounds (new ITEM type)
+- option for highlighter to be always at bottom of its layer
- more pen/highlighter shapes (chisel)
-- convert to/from Jarnal format; to/from MS Journal format???
- recalibration upon screen resize / compensation for miscalibration
(use ConfigureNotify event and XInput? cf "Bugs" tracker 08/2007)
- find a better behavior for vertical space tool across page boundaries ?
- move only what doesn't fit (??? looks hard)
option for vert space tool to also move the background??
(PDF: cut-and-crop by running PDF code twice with 2 different clipboxes?)
-- copy/paste of an entire page (beware if PDF bg is not compatible!)
-- simple drawing tools: rectangles, ellipses
- option to save all annotated files within the .xoj
- non-antialiased version for handhelds
- customize autogenerated save file names
- display corruption on scroll down when bottom of window is obscured??
(probably a gnomecanvas or X bug -- expose event generated for wrong
region, or not processed?)
-- bitmap preview for document icon in desktop environments?
- autosave at a regular interval in a given location
- keep only a few pages of a PDF file in memory at any given time; generate
pages by parsing pdf info rather than generating bitmaps for all of them.
- win32 port (Matteo Abrate)
- snap-to-grid tool? (Matteo Abrate)
-- option to auto-save preferences on exit (Michele Codutti)
- EPOS 7/24/07: Thumbnails pane
- EPOS: Connect to EPOS api which sends A4 mapped points
- EPOS: Cut and Paste into OpenOffice applications and the GIMP (as bitmap??)
- EPOS: Export pages to pictures in the Jpg and Png formats.
- EPOS: Rotate Ink in custom angle.
+- handwriting recognition???? (cellwriter?) unlikely. we don't have grids
+- handwritten stroke search in document (see cellwriter?)
+- option: export to PDF with incremental pages for successive layers
+ (for presentations) (Daniel Brugarth 8/18/07)
+- Samuel Hoffstaetter: lasso, gettext localization, sidebar thumbnails, ...
+- YoYo Siska patch for desktop mode ??
+- Vivek Ayer: rotate paper wrt screen (for environments where display
+ rotation doesn't work): gnome_canvas_item_affine_relative(canvas->root, ...)
+ would rotate all but text items (still need to modify scroll bbox, and
+ adjust event coordinates by inverse rotation).
+- switch to libglade, and allow customization of key shortcuts (accels)