#207 Infinite canvas. great for school work.

[Thor]

Hi, i have used MyPaint on and off for a while as it is a simple drawing program allowing me to take notes for class digitally and save them to open and portable formats.
but it is lacking in allot of the functionality i have found in xournal.
xournal seems to be the perfect replacement except for the lack of an infinite canvas.

The infinite canvas allows me to just work on my notes without suddenly bumping onto a barrier, and needing to break my note or illustration. witch is rather inconvenient when in a lecture, where the lecturer will continue to fill and erase the whiteboard faster than i can redraw.

(I havent seen any feature request like this so i hope i'm not creating a duplicate.)

[Denis Auroux]

The infinite canvas is nice for a basic on-screen notetaking program,
but it doesn't work well when it comes to printing out your notes --
there is no easy way to ensure your notes don't get cut in an
inconvenient location.

If you are sure you don't care about printing, in xournal you can always
change the page size to something huge (Page -> Paper Size -> Custom),
and increase it further if you need.

Otherwise, and if you know you mostly run out of space in the vertical
direction only, create additional pages in advance (though it's really
not much trouble to create them on the fly when you get to the bottom --
the "next page" button on the toolbar and the "up" arrow on the page
number in the bottom status bar will both create a new page if you are
already on the last page), and just continue on the next page when you
get to the end of a page.

That said, one could also try to implement a page that auto-extends (say
by the size of the screen each time) when you write or do anything
fairly close to the edge; but it'll wreck printing (I don't think it's a
good idea to arbitrarily cut up a canvas page into multiple pieces at
printing time without much user control over where things get cut, and
it's not a good idea either to just scale the whole document to one
printer page) and so it's not very high priority for me.

Denis

[Thor]

maybe extending to the next page automatically and adding indicator lines where the page will be cut for printing? that might be a nice compromise. although the new page option will probably do the job for me for the most part.
thanks allot for great software by the way. ;)