OK, we have now purchased six licenses for PDF Annotator here in maths at Nottingham. Now the main reason for preferring Journal to Xournal is gone, but the non-customizability of the menus in Xournal is a little annoying, and something that PDF Annotator does seem to offer everywhere. 🙂 I’m on an XP (Tablet Edition) operating system which is listed on that page as one of the targets of this driver so I was confident all should have gone well - and it did.
(Wacom Penabled Driver Driver 7.01-8 (RC) for Penabled Tablet PCs, released 9/21/10 - is the version currently up there)Īs usual with drivers, if there’s nothing wrong with your tablet then don’t mess around with them. I noticed the very poor quality writing in Xournal upon testing… but then did as you suggested and now the handwriting quality (thanks presumably to it working in proper “pen” mode with sensitivity and all that jazz) is as good as Journal and PDF Annotator which were both already fine without the driver. This is still true on the M750’s (Toshiba model). I will report further as I find out more! (See comments below) But you can specify exactly your preferred thickness of pen nib, and that is very handy. I don’t think that there is an equivalent of the “chisel” pens that I like to use in Journal. I am probably doing something wrong, because it is supposed to work! I have not yet managed to make “pressure-sensitivity” work for the pen. There does not appear to be the equivalent of Journal’s “Add/Remove space” tool, but selecting all the objects to move should be adequate. However, you can pre-prepare lined /squared paper in a document, and insert/append that instead.
For example, I don’t think that you can change the default new page/appended page from blank paper to lined/squared paper. There are a few features missing, or that I have not yet found a slick way to do. PDF Annotator looks to be very user-friendly, and can do most of the things that I would want. The immediate and big advantage is that you can work with the PDF file produced by pdflatex immediately, without having to first “improve it” using Acrobat (or equivalent) and then exporting to a Windows Journal document (and even then with imperfect results). In view of the problems I have had (well-recorded in this blog!) importing PDF files into Windows Journal and obtaining reasonable on-screen results, I am now trying out (the trial version of) PDF Annotator. It was very interesting to see some alternative approaches, and I can see that both OneNote and PDF Annotator could be very useful. In a seminar in Nottingham in June this year, Birgit Loch demonstrated her approach to using tablet PC’s and recording classes.
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