Hi René,

I will take the most basic version of your request to be: you'd like 
"export to PDF" to produce a PDF file with one page per layer, showing 
the successive layers one after the other (first background + layer 1 
only, then add layer 2, add layer 3, etc. until all layers are there).

(Note: if you don't want the first annotation layer to appear 
immediately, just add an empty layer under your other layers... so it 
seems more useful to start with layer 1 included.)

(This is the simplest thing to do -- graying things out etc. would be ok 
for pen annotations but might be harder for other things).

This is a non-trivial patch, but not all that difficult -- one needs to 
change the printing code so that (1) printing a page can stop after a 
specified layer, and (2) the main printing loop iterates over layers as 
well.  The annoying thing is that we have two different sets of PDF 
export code (legacy vs. new); and the new PDF export code is factored 
with printing, but when printing one definitely shouldn't export the 
layers one by one.

If I have time I'll try to code it right away, since it seems pretty useful.

Denis


On 07/06/2015 02:57 AM, rrvhassel wrote:
> Hellow Denis,
>
>
> several years I'm using xournal, a very nice program.
> At this moment I have a question, the following:
> "If you make a xournal file with different layers,
> how can I behave those different layers in a pdf-file?"
> So I doesn't want that those layers merge to one file.
>
> I want to make a pencast. So I want to speak to the
> students about a subject and by clicking at a pdf-file
> I want to let them see something, which is written down
> at my Wacom Bamboo tablet. But I don't want to
> let them see everything at once, but part by part.
>
> See for a example the webpage of Sue Glascoe:
> http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=hTfc27c7QDPk
>
> or:
> http://tech4mathed.com/Livescribe/LivescribeResources_GlascoeDownloadablePencasts.html#complexnumbers
>
>
> Here you see that text changes of color from gray to black or green,
> such a thing would also be nice to do with xournal.
> I have no idea if that is difficult to realize,
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Rene' van Hassel
>

-- 
Denis Auroux
UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics
817 Evans Hall, Berkeley CA 94720-3840, USA
aur...@math.berkeley.edu

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