Just so the ideas are out there. These are both reasonably good suggestions, but the second one is probably not realistic at the moment given xournal's lack of awareness of the contents of the PDF file. For the first one, my immediate workaround would be to just place the favorite images into a favorite folder so as to be able to select them in two clicks, but perhaps something better could be done. In general, the overall theme is UI improvements for keyboard/mouse-based PDF annotation purposes using the text and image tools.
Denis -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Filling out forms with xournal Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:10:04 -0700 From: Brad Templeton <4b...@templetons.com> Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad To: aur...@math.berkeley.edu Dennis, thanks very much for making Xournal. I have found it to be a very handy tool not for journaling, but for filling out PDF forms, which is a regular event. For linux it seems to be the best tool. If I might be so bold as to make some suggestions (always rude without patches, I know) may I put forward: a) It would be nice if you could tell it to remember a particular image file, namely the file with your signature in it, and somehow provide an easy UI to add that signature with just a few clicks, rather than having to do a generic image add and find the file. A "Sign" tool on the toolbar could be a typical UI. b) Some other PDF annotators go further. They analyse the PDF where you click, looking at the white and black space to try to figure out where the bounding box is, if it's a box, or the line, if it's a line, and then can provide an automatic placement of the cursor for typing, as well as a font size to fit. This is a much more advanced thing, while the first suggestion is much simpler. They can also be combined, in that the tool can look at the bounding box and pick a size for the signature, within limits of course! Thanks again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Xournal-devel mailing list Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel
