com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp
Xournal++ is a hand note-taking software written in C++ with the target of flexibility, functionality and speed. Stroke recognizer and other parts are based on Xournal Code, which you can find at sourceforge. It supports GNU/Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
Xournal++ features:
- Supports pressure-sensitive styluses and digital pen tables (e.g. Wacom, Huion, XP Pen, etc. tablets)
- Paper backgrounds for note-taking, scratch paper, or whiteboarding
- Annotate on top of PDFs
- Select text from the background PDF, copy, highlight or underline it or strike it through
- Follow links from the background PDF
- Export to a variety of formats including SVG, PNG and PDF, both from the GUI and command line
- Different drawing tools (e.g. pen, highlighter) and stroke styles (e.g. solid, dotted)
- Shape drawing (line, arrow, circle, rectangle, spline)
- Use the set-square and compass tools for measurements or as a guide for drawing straight lines, circular arcs and radii
- Fill shape functionality
- Shape resizing and rotation
- Rotation and grid snapping for precise alignment of objects
- Input stabilization for smoother writing/drawing
- Text tool for adding text in different fonts, colors, and sizes
- Enhanced support for image insertion
- Eraser with multiple configurations
- LaTeX support (requires a working LaTeX installation) with customizable template and a resizable editor with syntax highlighting
- Sidebar containing page previews with advanced page sorting, PDF bookmarks and layers (can be individually hidden/edited)
- Allows mapping different tools/colors etc. to stylus/mouse buttons
- Customizable toolbar with multiple configurations, e.g. to optimize toolbar for portrait/landscape
- Custom color palette support using the .gpl format
- Page template definitions
- Bug reporting, autosave, and auto backup tools
- Audio recording and playback alongside with handwritten notes
- Multi language support (over 20 languages supported)
- Plugins using Lua scripting
Latest reviews
Fully-suited and ergonomic tool for all PDF annotation needs. I use it for annotating handed-in assignments at university. The Linux Mint version is too buggy to fully recommend though: Crashing with Unicode characters, a broken by default Flatpak installation (can be fixed though, see review by Peppermintstarman) and issues with certain PDFs leaves me not fully recommending this unless you can deal with these issues. By all means, please TRY IT, but if you do have an alternative you are satisfied with, stay with it.
I use the software at school for my blackboard notes. I don't know of any better software for my purposes. Unfortunately, the stable versions for installation under Mint are a bit buggy at the moment. The Flatpak version (1.2) could not be started at all. The text tool did not work properly with the other stable versions of 1.2. Finally I dared to download the nightly build version from the website and now the text tool works, but now it crashes when I try to make a pdf-export. Hopefully they fix the bugs. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Download Flatseal. Open Flatseal. You should see a selection of applications on the Flatseal window. Go to the Xournal++ section. Scroll down until you see the "File system" section, then go to the section in there that says "Other files." "You should see an option that says "xdg-run/pipewire-0 ". Remove it by clicking the x on the right.
To get the Flatpak version to run on Linux Mint, it seems it it is currently necessary to run this Flatpak in the command line the first time with the following command (without the full stop/period at the end of it): flatpak run com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp --disable-audio. Then disable the audio from within the running app via: preferences > audio recording > disable audio > click OK. This then allows the app to open normally from that point.
A brilliant app for education purposes. However, the Flatpak simply does not work on Linux Mint. Fails to launch on any of my students' desktops, my personal laptop, and at-home workstation - all of which run Linux Mint. Would recommend downloading from developer's site.
flatpak run com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp --disable-audio once and disable audio in the preferences for the future!
Good app, but Flathub version does not start o Linux Mint!? Solution: https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/5020
Great app for notes and annotations. It works great for teaching, too. The layer-model can be very convenient.
Excellent app, very pratical and has almost everythng I need to take notes and prepare some physics problems handwriting in my PC. It is better to download it from github: https://xournalpp.github.io/installation/ . You can even add LaTex formulae.
This is best app for quick notes, demo or teaching using mouse, keyboard and pen (any kind of math, science, presentation, annotating existing PDFs and lite drawing). Cool feature is that you can use real mouse as usual and touchscreen (or other input device like tablet) just as pen. Almost everything is intuitive (besides few misleading icon pictures). As rahul mentioned, install it from PPA and not this flatpack. It will work better and will be smaller.
I have shifted from Windows to Linux and was searching for an alternative for Micosoft OneNote. I am a teacher and during this pandemic, Online teaching I needed something that supports handwriting. I use Wacom to write. Xournal++ is really nice and I dont miss One Note. However there is one issue that i am facing, it crashes very frequently. I am using Linux Mint 20. I dont know the reason why this happens. I hope it is fixed soon. Thank you guys :)
Just what I need. Download .deb from github to avoid flatpak https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/releases