Taking Notes And Sketching With The Pen - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

16.6 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 collab-
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oration features. For more information, refer to
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 an-
notate the PDF and save your changes with File > Print to PDF.
Figure 16.3 Annotating a PDF with Xournal
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
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