pdf tools

Kouran · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

hi,
i hope this is the right place to post, if not please move the post. i obtained a new tablet notebook and wanted to use it at university to annotate the pdf slides. while searching for a program to do so i stumbled upon xournal. has any1 made some experiences with that program or does any know a good, powerful pdf annotation software for linux?

greetz and thx in advance
tom

OmSai · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:24 am Post subject:

pdfedit is good for simple text and graphical editing.
It is available in portage

Caveat: It's not fancy.
PDFs are not meant for substantial editing after they are published
The software acknowledges this fact in its wiki and works within that limitation

absoluteflatness · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:20 am Post subject:

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like, as the OP mentioned that he has a tablet, he meant "annotations" as in digital "ink annotations" where you can mark up documents freehand.

That being said, I'm not familiar with the options for that on Linux.

OmSai · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

[quote="absoluteflatness"he meant "annotations" as in digital "ink annotations" where you can mark up documents freehand.[/quote]
Oops, you're right.
I'm sorry I didn't read the post carefully.

Maybe you could have a marked up document with pdftools and then <Alt>+<Tab> from the original

j/k

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

Xournal is the best there is, just be carefull not to load PDFs with several hundred pages because xournal currently keeps every page uncompressed in the RAM which adds up quickly.

jarnal can also do it and adds a few features (collaboration over network..) but it's java (ugly) and really slow (a'lot of disk access).

Other then that, KDE's new pdf-viewer okular is currently getting some annotation features but afaik its not there yet.

Kouran · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

k thx guys for your oppinions, guess ill stick with xournal then

greetz
tom

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

Is there anything you don't like about xournal, or why did you ask?

Kouran · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

No, theres nothing, its just im not finished with setting gentoo up on the new box and i read some articles about xournal and the branches of the project. i just wanted to gather a few opinions if one of the branches might be better than the main project etc. i just didnt want to install like 7 programms and then remove them again ^^. so i asked if ppl made some experiences with the progs.

toralf · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

mimosinnet · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

I am unable to find pdfedit or xournal in portage. Have they been substituted by another programme?

Thanks!

zoni · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

mimosinnet · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

Zoni, thanks very much for the answer. I am unable to find xournal in portage. I have even updated the portage tree (emerge --sync), and eix gives me:

zoni · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

You probably forgot to update the eix cache after syncing the portage tree with emerge. update-eix will do this.
And yes, the sunrise overlay has interesting things that haven't reached the portage tree yet sometimes

You're very welcome.

mimosinnet · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject: