Taking Notes And Sketching With The Pen - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - GNOME 23-05-2007 Manual

E.3.4 Taking Notes and Sketching with the Pen
To create drawings with the pen, you can use a professional graphics editor like The GIMP or try
one of the note taking applications, Xournal or Jarnal. With both Xournal and Jarnal, you can take
notes, create drawings, or comment PDF files with the pen. As a Java-based application available for
several platforms, Jarnal also offers basic collaboration features. For more information, refer to
http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal-net.htm (http://www.dklevine.com/
general/software/tc1000/jarnal-net.htm). When saving your contents, Jarnal stores the data in an
archive format (*.jaj) that also contains a file in SVG format.
Start Jarnal or Xournal from the main menu or by entering jarnal or xournal in a shell. To
comment a PDF file in Xournal, for example, select File > Annotate PDF and open the PDF file
from your file system. Use the pen or another pointing device to annotate the PDF then save your
changes with File > Print to PDF.
Annotating a PDF with Xournal
Figure E-2
Dasher is another useful application. It was designed for situations where keyboard input is
impractical or unavailable. With a bit of training, you can rapidly enter larger amounts of text using
only the pen (or other input devices—it can even be driven with an eye tracker).
Start Dasher from the main menu or with dasher from a shell. Move your pen in one direction and
the applications starts to zoom into the letters on the right side. From the letters passing the cross
hairs in the middle, the text is created or predicted and is printed to the upper part of the window. To
stop or start writing, click the display once with the pen. Modify the zooming speed at the bottom of
the window.
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