xournal : problems with drawing, pasting and exporting pdf

[Dominique.Attali@…]

Hi,

I have a MacBook Pro, which runs under Mac OS X 10.6.2 and installed xournal 0.4.2.1 with MacPorts, using the command : sudo port install xournal

When running xournal, I have the following messages:

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$ ./xournal
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-rM6XvI/:0".

(xournal:55009): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
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The window of the application appears with a cursor but I cannot draw nor write text. It has no effect.

Denis Auroux suggested that I unselect "Use Xinput" in the Options menu. Following his suggestion, I can indeed draw, but it reduces the quality of the tablet input. I'm using a wacom bamboo fun middle.

I noticed two other problems :

• the copy and paste functionality does not work.
• when exporting a pdf file, it is not visualized correctly by Preview.app: in particular, the text (typed with the keyboard) is gone. I tried different fonts. But, with Acrobat Reader, it works.

Please, could you help me ?

I would really like to use this application for annoting pdf and taking notes.

Thanks,

Claude

[verena.wolf@…]

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem. Any hints how to fix this? It is really anoying if you cannot copy stuff :-(

Verena.

[ryandesign@…]

Replying to Dominique.Attali@…:

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-rM6XvI/:0".

This message is normal on Mac OS X and does not indicate a problem. See our RANDR FAQ entry.

(xournal:55009): Gtk-WARNING : GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

I see this bug was ​filed in the xournal issue tracker. They indicated the warning is harmless, and was removed in version 0.4.5, which I only just now realized has been available for months, and to which I've now updated the port in r66534.

The window of the application appears with a cursor but I cannot draw nor write text. It has no effect.

With 0.4.5 I'm not having any trouble with this.

• the copy and paste functionality does not work.

I don't know how copy and paste is meant to work in xournal, but I'm not managing to get it to work either. Please file a bug report in the ​xournal issue tracker about this problem so that the developers can work on fixing it.

• when exporting a pdf file, it is not visualized correctly by Preview.app: in particular, the text (typed with the keyboard) is gone. I tried different fonts. But, with Acrobat Reader, it works.

I understand xournal's PDF export was completely rewritten in 0.4.5 and now uses poppler. I had to apply a patch (done in r66535) to get PDF export to work at all on Snow Leopard, but the PDF I exported opened fine in Preview. So this part at least should be fixed now.