Re: note-taking and PDF annotation: jarnal
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:55:49PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote:
> David Bremner wrote am 4/8/2009 12:30 PM:
> > Michael Hanke wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:16:00PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Xournal is in debian, and seems to work OK. Is jarnal superior to
> >>> xournal in some way?
> >
> >> Okular also has annotation capabilities and is in Debian.
> >
> > My experience with okular annotation has not been too positive so far.
> > Some of it is just bugs because the features are new, but also I find
> > the current okular model of storing the annotations in ~/.kde not very
> > useful. On the other hand, okular deals with PDF as PDF, rather than
> > rasterizing it, as I believe xournal does. So these two at least have
> > different niches.
> >From my quick look at the xournal homepage, I also had the impression
> that xournal uses pdftoppm or something like this. And keeping
> modifications in your local home-directory is only fine as long as you
> only use the file from this one account...
Hmm, I have used xournal before and it can both store anotations as an
overlay, as well as producing a PDF with the original content and the
annotations overlayed.
Michael
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