On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Michael J Gruber < michaeljgruber+gm...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I'm wondering what the current state is regarding inclusion of PDFs, and > what the best direction would be. As far as I understand: > > - Xournal can annotate PDFs directly or load them as background. In each > case, the page size is set to the PDFs page size. If you change it then > the PDF gets rescaled. Also, this means one PDF per page, obviously. > > - Xournal can insert an arbitrary number of images and rescale them. > They get embedded into the xoj. > > That get's you only so far if you want to include, say, multiple graphs > into your lecture notes. I can convert PDF to PNG, of course, but that > seems to be moot if Xournal knows how to render PDFs (using poppler), > and besides the unnecessary increase in file size (embedded PNG), this > also makes it difficult to update an xoj with updated graphs. > You are asking for 2 different features: 1. References to external files instead of embedding them. 2. Ability to embed PDFs. I can provide advise on what parts of xournal need to be modified for each feature. Why don't give it a try? -dmg > > So, ideally I would like to "include" PDFs as links to the PDF (just > like the annotated PDFs), multiple ones per xoj page. I don't mind > editing an xoj by hand (vim to the rescue...). > > Michael > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Xournal-devel mailing list > Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel > -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org
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