Notices

Just an FYI.
I scanned pages from a book I'm reading into pdf files. The built in pdf viewer would not open them (out of memory error.)
Xournal opens them with no problems! And I can highlight the page as a book marker.
Worth mentioning is that the "Annotate PDF" feature displays the pdf in low-resolution at first, but gets more defined after a short delay. This is a great feature because it allows me to start reading right away and the image slowly gets better.

It's also a great note taking application which it what it was designed for.

My only minor complaint is the up/down left/right keys do not scroll the page.

This is definately a thumbs up application!

Use Evince for reading pdf !

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rant about evince beeing too slow, especially when pictures involved in pdfs, removed because i just gave it another try and its seems faster now, have to check that out.

Xournal is great and the Annotate pdf feature is awesome but when i try to annotate large 100 pages pdfs (scanned books here too) it does often not work or reboot the 770.

I just installed Evince on CrapBot's advice. Works great! It has the same progressive resolution feature and the page moves with the arrow keys.

I wonder why the built in pdf viewer gives memory errors on the same pdfs?

I won't be dropping Xournal. It's still the best I've seen for taking notes. It also has the ability to export notes to PDF. It also has a graph paper background!

I sometimes jot down quick schematics for the technicians I work with. Being able to Email these as a PDF is just too cool.

Honestly, my experiences with pdf viewers on the 770 has been pretty mixed. Evince has a much better interface, but on large documents it freezes up for time to time. Sometimes it seems like the built-in pdf viewer, with its one-page-at-a-time approach, works better for some documents, esp books. Haven't tried this feature of Xournal, but I definitely will!

(A lot of the pdfs I deal with are scans of journal articles, which explains some of my problems.)

Blame the format! PDF was excellent while software authors were still struggling to arrange their printouts to fit into a 4MB RAM PS printer - but these days, output bloat is that excessive that even Acrobat resp. Adobe Viewer tends to freeze dead for tens of seconds on impressively fast desktop computers.

Sevo

On my n800, with the latest firmware, if I have both xournal and evince, xournal is unable to open a pdf file for annotations. If I uninstall evince, xournal opens pdf file. Can you people out there confirm?

If you open a PDF with xournal it will convert every page to PPM (uncompressed image format) and therefore this needs A LOT of RAM. On my Talbet-PC i need up to 400MB for a 100 page PDF (i use a higher DPI setting for pdftoppm though).
This is certainly the cause for crashes/reboots of the N770/800.

Dont know about this issue with evince, but AFAIK evince depends on poppler and poppler includes the pdftoppm command.
Maybe the xournal package, assuming it does not have poppler as dependency, comes with its own pdftoppm version and doesn't work anymore then with the one from poppler.
Just guessing, i can't confirm or not confirm anything.

Well I uninstalled xournal, evince, poppler utils and then re-installed xournal and evince, and now it works. Strange isn't it? Now I have to correct the message I sent to Etrunko...