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Is this PrintPDF thing something that could be run (or ported to run) on the DR itself?
If the main functionality can be, I think it could be extremely useful (for me, that is) if it could be merged with the main UI so annotated PDFs can be generated right away from PDFs + annotations. I think it shouldn't be too hard to implement something along the lines of: Select PDF -> Open with, or some other menu -> Small dialog draft: [x] Generate <myfile>_notesonly.pdf [x] Generate <myfile>_annotated.pdf [x] Delete exported annotations from DB. (OK) (Cancel) What do you think? |
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Python is already ported, pyPdf is pure python, and ReportLab only C module is for speed. So I guess it should run on DR. Iņigo |
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what does "external script" mean in this context?
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Oh, I see. My idea was to somehow call the script from the main DR UI to skip Xournal altogether. Not that I think it's useless, but all I do with it is 'import annotations -> export to PDF', and a simple UI addition + script as I described would be far more practical for that.
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Hi all, I have been away on holidays for almost two weeks (: so that is why I reply only now.
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Did anyone use the (2nd) script already? [1] See dr1000hackx, that allows to install alternative commands for extensions. |
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Xournal - the annotations champ!
OK, while I try and devise methods of talking Mackx into implementing the non-interactive stuff I want , I heavily use Xournal to generate annotated versions of all my books so I can easily (but laboriously!) get as much of a misprint-free library as possible.
I hadn't commented any more on the virtues of this beast of a Xournal port in the hopes of not breaking the enchantment, and now several patches have been released and now we have v0.8d... Turns out there's no enchantment to break when and where there's a competent programmer in charge. From v0.8 on it's all been improvements and no regressions I am aware of. I just imported annotations, exported them to a new PDF and saved them as a native Xournal file without a glitch, and I'm talking a 402 page PDF here no less -- edit: 402 annotated pages, more like 500 in the original). Now, can Mackx cook, or can he cook? |
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Thanks for the complements.
Note that xournal only handles PDF up-to version 1.5 well. Higher versions might lead to rendering the page to a bitmap and merging the annotations with it. Since memory is not very well managed (it was written for desktop-computers) this will lead to problems even with medium size documents! |
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I only give credit where credit is due -- it's such a shame occasions to give it are so rare in general...
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