Comments on: How to annotate PDF files in Linux using Xournal

By: Fido

Fido — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:21 +0000

Thanks for this post.

Xournal do the job : annotate !

By: Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:28:17 +0000

This post is awesome!! very very helpful for me! haha.

Anyway, here is one more question.

Can I change the shortcuts? Xournal’s shortcuts aren’t convenient.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:56:46 +0000

What are the steps?

I started a New Layer, highlighted it and saved it as a file separate from the original PDF. The saved file was filename.pdf.xoj. When I try to Export to PDF I get a plain text file but NO PDF file is created.

How do I merge the layer of my highlighting and export the result as a PDF file; how do I save “. . . an annotated PDF file?”

Please list the steps.

By: George Notaras

George Notaras — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:14:46 +0000

@Chris & @ Viktor: Hi. As I explain in the post above, xournal has not been designed for PDF highlighting. I don’t consider it the best solution for PDF highlighting, but I don’t think you can find any other free software that does it well.

As for closed source software, the latest Adobe Reader X supports highlighting and comments on the pdf file. Also, Foxit pdf reader has supported this feature since a few years.

By: Viktor

Viktor — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:03:42 +0000

Agreeing with Chris, this program sucks. Have been using pdf annotator in windows and trying to find a replacement. Highlighting your text should make it easier to read, not fuck up your eyes.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:10:17 +0000

I wish the highlighter mode in xournal would give you the option of having the highlighter color not affect or “bleed” into the text foreground color, just the background color. Highlighting text in office word for example does this where the text foreground color (usually black) does not change but the background color takes on the highlighted color. This makes the highlighted text more readable.

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:28:15 +0000

Thanks very much for the information. I plan to use xournal for my classes, and having the possibility of annotating pdf files was the last thing I needed to be able to do everything from a laptop.

Best regards.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:19:23 +0000

Thanks for tips!

I’m using Xournal 0.45 and the ruler on startup is now split up by tool type, so:

highlighter_ruler=true

Cheers :)

By: londonlnx

londonlnx — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:58:54 +0000

This post is very useful for me. Thank you so much!

By: brontosaurus

brontosaurus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:02:01 +0000

Thank you for this info!! I had tried 4 other programs that wouldn’t do what I wanted. This was perfect for marking up a PDF file I was proofreading for a colleague.

One note, I’m using Ubuntu (Hardy) and the version accessible through the GUI Add/Remove program interface was not the newest version available and wouldn’t work for me (it was 0.4.1). After downloading and installing Xournal from its sourceforge site (version 0.4.2.1), it worked awesomely.