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
• Copy the scripts under launcher folder to their corresponding absolute path
• Under vlc settings:
• • enable http interface (see this ) with blank username and password "password"
• • tick Allow only one instance under Interface -> Instance
• Launch xournalpp using the launcher I provided xournalpp-ts-launcher.sh
• Choose Toolbar Left layout under View->Toolbars->Toolbar Left

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

Xournal++ is a hand note taking software written in C++ with the target of flexibility, functionality and speed. Stroke recognizer and other parts are based on Xournal Code, which you can find at sourceforge

Xournal++ features:

• Support for Pen preassure, e.g. Wacom Tablet
• Support for annotating PDFs
• Allow to map different tools / colors etc. to stylus buttons / mouse buttons
• Sidebar with Page Previews with advanced page sorting, PDF Bookmarks and Layers (Layers currently not enabled by default)
• enhanced support for image insertion
• Eraser with multipe configurations
• Significantly reduced memory usage and code to detect memory leaks compared to Xournal
• LaTeX support (requires a working LaTeX install and -DENABLE_MATHTEX=ON flag when configuring)
• bug reporting, autosave, and auto backup tools
• Customizeable toolbar, with multiple configurations, e.g. to optimize toolbar for portrait / landscape
• Page Template definitions
• Shape drawing (line, arrow, circle, rect)

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.

Current releases are out of Date, we are searching for Maintainer for PPA etc. Issue for Contact

Install dependencies

For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

- Probably not correct for new GTK3 build, create a pull or a Ticket if you have the correct list

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 libjpeg-dev fontconfig librsvg2-dev libgtk-3-dev \
libpoppler-dev libpoppler-cpp-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev \
libxml2-dev libopenjpeg-dev

(On Ubuntu 18.04, remove the last libopenjpeg-dev, it's not in the repository any more).

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

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

If you're on Arch and you're having issues getting it to compile, please try to downgrade those two packages with downgrade command.

Non-Arch users

If your build fails, try the following (I haven't tested it yet as I'm on Arch) (thanks to Gianluca Viganò)

• Download and replace those two files from the upstream:
• • xournalpp/src/config.h.in
• • xournalpp/src/mathtex/config.h.in
• Rename xournalpp/src/pdf/popplerdirect/workaround/poppler-0.62.0 to poppler-0.67.0 (should match your poppler version)
• Edit poppler-0.67.0 occurrences accordingly inside xournalpp/src/pdf/popplerdirect/workaround/workaround.h.in
• re-try from cmake command

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 developping new features, write a Ticket, so others know what you are doing. For development create a fork, and use the master as base. Create a Pull request for each fix. Do not create big pull requests, as long as you don't break anything features also can be merged, even if they are not 100% finished.

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