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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Xournal User's manual</title></head><style> .subtitle { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(0,150,0); } .subsub { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(0,150,0); } a { color: rgb(0,0,255); text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }</style><body bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background: rgb(255,255,255)"><h2 class="subtitle" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0,0,200)"> Xournal User's Manual</h2><p style="font-size: 0.95em; text-align: center; color: rgb(0,0,0)"> Version 0.4</p><hr /><p> Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions) and other GTK+/Gnome platforms. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal or to other alternatives such as <a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm">Jarnal</a> and <a href="http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/">Gournal</a>.</p><p>Xournal can be downloaded at<a href="http://xournal.sourceforge.net/">http://xournal.sourceforge.net/</a> or <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/">http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/</a></p><p> Xournal aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality; however it lacks the collaborative features of Jarnal. Since Xournal is still in its early development stages, it may not be fully stable, and some features have not been implemented yet.</p><h2 class="subtitle">Table of contents</h2><p> <ul> <li> <a href="manual.html#getting-started">Getting started</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#tools">The drawing and selection tools</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#pages-layers">Pages, layers, and backgrounds</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#printing">Printing</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#configuration">Configuration</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#author">Author information, license, bug-reports</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#changelog">Version history</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#file-format">The file format</a> </li> <li> <a href="manual.html#installation">Installation issues</a> and <a href="manual.html#calibration">tablet calibration issues</a> </li> </ul></p><hr /><a name="getting-started"></a><h2 class="subtitle">Getting started</h2><p> Xournal's user interface is (hopefully) intuitive, and if you don't run into <a href="manual.html#installation">installation</a> or <a href="manual.html#calibration">tablet calibration</a> issues, you'll probably be able to start taking notes without referring to this manual. <br /> Here is a screenshot of the user interface (click to enlarge):</p><p style="text-align: center"> <a href="screenshot.png"> <img src="screenshot.png" style="width: 321px; height: 176px" /> </a></p><p>Refer the next few sections of this manual for more information aboutthe various functionalities.</p><hr /><a name="tools"></a><h2 class="subtitle">The drawing and selection tools</h2><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/pencil.png"> The pen</h3><p>The pen is the default drawing tool in Xournal. It comes in a varietyof colors (see the color toolbar buttons and the Color submenu of theTools menu) and thicknesses (see the <a href="manual.html#thicknesses">thickness</a> toolbar buttons andthe Pen Options submenu of the Tools menu).</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/eraser.png"> The eraser</h3><p>The eraser lets you erase what you have drawn. By default, stylus buttons 2 and 3 (mouse middle or right buttons) aremapped to the eraser tool.<br />The eraser comes in three different thicknesses (selected using the<a href="manual.html#thicknesses">thickness</a> toolbar buttons),and can operate in three different modes (Eraser Options submenu ofthe Tools menu):<ul> <li> Standard mode (default): the eraser deletes portions of strokes previously drawn using the pen or the highlighter. In this mode, if you erase in the middle of a stroke, the remaining portions of the stroke are automatically split into shorter strokes. The background of the page (and the lower layers) are not erased. </li> <li> Whiteout: the eraser is actually a thick white pen, and simply covers whatever lies underneath, including the background of the page. </li> <li> Delete strokes: whenever the eraser comes in contact with a previously drawn stroke, the entire stroke is deleted. </li></ul></p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/highlighter.png"> The highlighter</h3><p> Like the pen, the highlighter comes in a variety of colors (the default is yellow) and thicknesses. Use the color and thickness toolbar buttons to change these settings.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/text-tool.png"> The text tool</h3><p> To insert a new text item, click at the location where the text is to be inserted on the page, then type it in or paste it using the contextual menu (note: no wrapping is performed). To modify a text item, click inside it. The font and point size can be modified using the "Text Font" command in the Tools menu (or the toolbar button). The color is the same as that currently selected for the pen (and can be modified using the toolbar buttons).</p><p> Text items can contain arbitrary Unicode characters, provided that a suitable font is installed on your system. However, languages written in a direction other than left-to-right might not be handled properly. If a journal contains some items in a font that is unavailable on your system, another one will be substituted. (Also, text items will be lost if the document is opened in a version of Xournal prior to 0.4). Finally, note that the printing and PDF export features only accept TrueType and Type 1 scalable fonts (do not use any bitmap fonts), and that the typesetting of the text may be slightly different in the printout.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/ruler.png"> The ruler</h3><p> The ruler is not a tool by itself, but rather a special operating mode of the pen and highlighter tools. When it is enabled, these tools paint line segments instead of curvy strokes. For simplicity, selecting the ruler when not in pen or highlighter mode automatically selects the pen.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/recycled.png"> Default tools</h3><p> Each tool (pen, eraser, highlighter, text) has a default setting (color, thickness, ... for the drawing tools, font and size for the text tool) associated to it. The "Default Pen", "Default Eraser", "Default Highlighter", and "Default Text" entries of the Tools menu select the appropriate tool and reset its settings to the defaults. The toolbar also includes a "Default" button which resets the currently selected tool to its default settings, and a "Default Pen" button. <br /> The "Set As Default" entry of the Tools menu takes the current settings of the currently selected tool and makes them the new default.</p><a name="thicknesses"></a><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/thin.png"> <img src="pixmaps/medium.png"> <img src="pixmaps/thick.png"> Thickness buttons</h3><p> These three buttons control the thickness of the current drawing tool (pen, eraser, or highlighter). The thickness can also be adjusted using the appropriate sub-menu of the Tools menu.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/rect-select.png"> Rectangle selection</h3><p> This tool lets you select a rectangular region of the current layer. All the strokes which are entirely contained within the rectangular region are selected. The selection can be moved within its page by clicking inside the selection rectangle and dragging the cursor. If the cursor is dragged to a different page, the selection will be moved to the topmost layer of that page.</p><p> The selection can be cut, duplicated, etc. (including to a different page or to a different journal) using the copy-paste toolbar buttons or the corresponding entries of the Edit menu.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/stretch.png"> Vertical space</h3><p> This tool lets you insert or remove vertical space within the page: all the items of the current layer which lie entirely between the cursor position and the end of the page are moved up or down.</p><p> Note that the background, and items on other layers, are not affected. Also, if you insert too much vertical space, some items may fall below the bottom of the page and become invisible. These items are not lost: to retrieve them, either use the vertical space tool again to remove the excess vertical space, or change the page height to an appropriate value (using the "Paper Size" entry in the Journal menu).</p><p> If you drag the cursor below the bottom of the page (so that the entire block being moved has become invisible), the items will be moved to the next page (topmost layer); however, any items that were already present on the next page are left unchanged. Similarly, dragging the cursor above the top of the page so that the entire block being moved becomes invisible results in the items being moved to the previous page.</p><h3 class="subsub"><img src="pixmaps/hand.png"> Hand tool</h3><p> This tool lets you browse the journal; dragging the cursor scrolls the view.</p><h3 class="subsub">Undo and redo</h3><p> All operations performed on the currently open journal (drawing, erasing, cut-and-paste; adding, deleting, and reformatting pages; etc.) can be undone and redone at will using the Undo and Redo toolbar buttons or the corresponding entries in the Edit menu.<br /> There is no limit to the depth of the undo/redo stack. It is cleared only when you quit the application or open a new journal.</p><a name="mappings"></a><h3 class="subsub">Button mappings</h3><p> Stylus buttons 2 and 3 (mouse middle and right buttons) can be mapped to different tools using the appropriate submenus in the Options menu (whereas the Tools menu and the toolbar buttons affect the primary tool assigned to button 1). The default mapping is the eraser.</p><p><b>Advanced configuration:</b> if a secondary button is mapped to a drawing tool (pen, eraser, or highlighter), the default is to "dynamically link" its settings to those of the primary tool, which means that each drawing tool has common settings (color, thickness, etc.) for all buttons. Dynamic linking of brush settings can be disabled by selecting the "Copy of current brush" option in the "Button mapping" submenu. The settings of the tool for button 2 or 3 are copied from the button 1 settings at the time when you select the option, and afterwards they are no longer updated when the button 1 settings are modified, thus making it possible to assign pens of different colors or thicknesses to different buttons.</p><p> Another option that affects button mappings is the "Eraser tip" option. If this option is turned on and the XInput extensions are enabled, then the eraser tip of your tablet's stylus will automatically be remapped to the eraser tool. This behavior, which overrides all other button mappings, is most useful if your X server is configured to map the eraser tip of your tablet's stylus to button 1.</p><hr /><a name="pages-layers"></a><h2 class="subtitle">Pages, layers, and backgrounds</h2><p>A journal is composed of one or more pages, whose characteristics can bemodified independently of each other. Each page consists of a backgroundand one or more layers stacked on top of the background. All drawingoperations take place within a single layer, and do not affect the backgroundor the other layers. You can think of the layers as transparent overlays:⌨️ 快捷键说明
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