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Xournal++

This fork is intended to improve and customize xournalpp to my very own use cases and taste.

Changes so far

Improved pasting screenshots from clipboard (better image positioning an sizing)
Changed "graph" journal style color form blue to grey
On the fly text size increasing/decreasing with CTRL + Alt + plus / minus
On the fly text bold toggle with CTRL + b
Go to next/prev. page with right/left arrows (instead of just pag. down / pag. up)
Save a timestamp for each stroke
Record audio and have it play according to stroke timestamps (done via external sw for the moment)
Zoom to the viewer's center (instead of top left corner of the page)

How to use audio record and playback feature:

Install vlc and make sure curl and arecord are present on your system
Under vlc settings, enable http interface (see this ) with blank username and password "password"
Launch xournalpp passing the path where to store the recordings e.g:-f $HOME/Music/recordings

You're ready to go! Just press the red button to start/stop recording and use the Play Object tool to click on a stroke and listen to the corresponding audio

Description

Xournal++ is not Xournal! It is a ground-up rewrite of Xournal in a different language (C++ instead of C). The purpose was to create a more flexible application that significantly extends the functionality of Xournal.

At the moment, Xournal is very stable software while Xournal++ is not. If you want stability, you might be more interested in the original Xournal project, which you can find at sourceforge or, for some in-development features of Xournal, at github.com/dmgerman/xournal.

New features in Xournal++ include:

enhanced support for image insertion
better eraser
significantly reduced memory usage and code to detect memory leaks
LaTeX support (requires a working LaTeX install and -DENABLE_MATHTEX=ON flag when configuring)
advanced page sorting (a sidebar, page up/down, etc.)
bug reporting, autosave, and auto backup tools

Hopefully you'll enjoy it!

Building

Aside from legacy releases, this is currently the way to install Xournal++. For complete building documentation refer to wiki page: Installation.

There will be some binaries appearing in the future, so ideally you can make use of those as well. They'll be at Xournal++ releases.

Install dependencies

For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

dnf groups install "C Development Tools and Libraries"
dnf install cmake libglade2-devel texlive-scheme-basic texlive-dvipng glibmm24-devel gtk2-devel gtk+-devel boost boost-devel poppler-glib-devel

For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev libcppunit-dev dvipng texlive
liblcms2-dev libopenjpeg-dev libjpeg-dev fontconfig librsvg2-dev libglade2-dev
libpoppler-dev libpoppler-cpp-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev

Basic steps are: (need to compile with -fpermissive due to const library changes in poppler)

git clone http://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp.git
cd xournalpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fpermissive" ..
make

On Ubuntu 16.04, you may need to configure cmake with -DBUILD_POPPLER=ON due to #234.

If you'd like to enable mathtex support you should add -DENABLE_MATHTEX=ON to cmake command or use cmake-gui .. to see graphically all available options. However, this should already be enabled by default.

The binary executable will be in build/src/ subdirectory.

To install all needed files execute:

make install

If you want to install desktop file and thumbnailer execute:

make desktop-install

Development

For now branches aren't organized too well, but (currently) the most of development happens in development.

See GitHub:xournalpp for current development. You can also join our Gitter channel via badge on top.

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