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Originally Posted by kadbr0
Mackx,
since you mention that you are working on a new version, i dare to mention a few more issues with this wonderful program.
*1 The settings for e.g. the eraser do not seem to save. I like the setting Pen Stroke, but have to set that in each session again.
*2 We can now start the application form a .xoj file, but i notice that in that case writing becomes a lot slower then when i first start the app and then load a file.
*3 There is no highlight upon selecting a file, and at other places, and so one is never sure what will actually get loaded.
*4 The 'template' with lines as in a notebook is fine. Only i notice that anything written outside it does not get savd. I.e. we are not using the full size of the screen, while it isn't huge already.
*5 Is there something like a manual for Xournal? I notice all kinds of icons at the top that may be able to do interesting stuff, but do not know what that is nor which ones actually work in the DR version.
Dik
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Hi Dik,
Many thanks for your feedback. Good to hear that you like it. I only ported the application to the DR, the original version is maintained on
sourceforge, it also contains documentation.
To your questions:
1) Looking at the xournal website I see that this confuses more people. You first need to Select the Tools->Eraser Options->delete strokes, then Tools->Set As Defaults and then Options->Save Preferences. It seems that only defaults are saved.
2) At this moment there are two 'versions' of xournal for the DR. One version uses direct scribbles like the native DR applications do (V4), the other version uses the gtk refresh mechanism, which updates after about 2 seconds (V3). I think that the version that is started with the short-cut is the 'slow' V3 version. When you start manually you are probably using the XournalEx-shortcut that starts the V4 version. Or are you refering to another effect?
The new version (V5) allows the switch between the slow-safe draw and the fast-possible-lockup draw method via a menu-item.
3) iRex has patches the gtk version that is available on the DR so that it needs less screen-updates (which are slow on the DR). It seems that highlighting files is one of the features that is disabled. Apart from writting a complete new file-chooser I can not do anything on this issue.
4) This is indeed an issue that I also want to address. The initial drawing is done by some extra, DR specific, code that is drawing directly to the low-level display driver. The extra code does not consider the margins that the original code of Xournal uses. After a (high-level) screen-refresh the low-level scribblings will be removed and overwritten by the 'actual' scribblings of the original code. (I hope you understand what I am trying to say ...) It is on my todo-list.
5) The original documentation is on the site indicated above. I try to make most functions of the original program also working on the DR. Please let me know if there are features that do not work (well). (The new version will 'fix' the refresh-after-undo, which seems not work anymore in the new firmware.)
Marcel.