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#76 Dual view mode
Xournal is pretty much perfect for annotating PDFs, but one thing that annoys me is that I cannot enable the dual view mode. For presentation sildes exported into PDFs viewed on a wide-screen monitor, it would be really awesome to have this. One such implementation of dual view mode is Evince. However, Evince does not have annotation support.
By "dual view", do you mean viewing two pages side by side?
I've never been happy with the usual way apps display two pages side by side, but pairs of pages still come below each other. Seems illogical, and inconvenient in many respects. Let me ask a question: say there were a mode where the pages are arranged horizontally from each other (i.e. page n+1 is to the right of page n), and you can scroll horizontally through the entire document. (And then of course you could set the zoom level so that the width of the display is that of two pages). Would this be as useful as "dual view"?
(My personal impression is that it should be *more* useful, for several reasons: 1. if you're displaying side by side two slides which are portrait mode, then you want to be able to scroll by just one slide rather than two slides at once; this way, things don't disappear all at once. 2. one can choose to have three pages or any number rather than two...)
Comments welcome.
Denis
Yes, I mean viewing two pages side by side.
I think that a mode where pages are arranged horizontally from each other would be annoying, personally speaking. The reason I like the dual view mode is that presentation slides (which are landscape) generally have very sparsely placed, big-font text, so I prefer looking at two pages at once. Note that I usually use this with Evince's "Continuous" mode, so usually the n+3 and n+4 pages which are attached just below end up showing up a little underneath, whereby scrolling a little will show you its contents.
I do understand that dual mode for portrait slides or documents is not really useful though, since you end up scrolling down to read one, and then scrolling back up to read the next page.
Re #2, if that were the case, then I believe it would be nicer to have a mode where you can customize how many pages be displayed side by side, and still scroll downwards.
This will be possible with Xournal++, which will be released soon.
I have a similar problem using Xournal with Windows 10. When a second screen is presnet, the writting gets to the wrong place, although the curser seems to be in the right position. Otherwise Xournal works well, and I use it all the time.
I know that you don't do much development for windows, but if you have a clue where I can look for a soloution for this problem, it will be a big help.
sorry, I wrote this in the wrong post. will post again in the right place.
This is pretty clearly not the same issue or even remotely related,
but anyway... This is a wacom driver configuration issue, based on
what I found out on my system.
Go to the Control Panel, under "Hardware and Sound", you should have a
"Wacom Pen" entry (not "Pen and Touch", not "Tablet PC Settings") to
configure the Wacom driver. It should open the Wacom Pen settings
tool, in which you should have a button called "Configure Displays".
Click this button and follow the instructions (which aren't as clear
as they should be) to configure the pen display to be the correct one.
If the windows "pen and touch" driver is configured correctly but the
Wacom pen driver thinks the main screen is the other one, then the
cursor will display at the right place but the pen will not draw in
xournal with "Options -> Use XInput" enabled. (Of course you can also
address things instead by disabling "Use XInput", but then you lose
pressure sensitivity etc., so better to fix the configuration of the
Wacom driver in the control panel).
Hope this helps.
Denis