Description of problem: No annotations in PDF files are possible except for inserting text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xournal-0.4.1-3.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a PDF file in xournal. 2. Choose "eraser" mode. 3. Try to erase some text. Actual results: None. Expected results: Text under the pointer gets erased. Additional info: - This clearly used to work sometime last year, probably in F7 or even F8. - Ubuntu/Hardy users appear to have the same problem, too.
I turns out that unchecking menu item "Options > Use XInput" allows to restore the previous behaviour where annotations were visible on the fly. It might be useful to make this the default setting.
I don't understand anything about this bug report. If you open a PDF file, the eraser tool isn't supposed to do anything. It only erases strokes drawn in Xournal, not the PDF background file. Also: I haven't kept track of the latest versions packaged in Fedora 8, but the problems reported under Ubuntu Hardy are due to a bug/misfeature in Xorg 1.3 and linuxwacom 0.7.9, which may also affect the latest updates to Fedora 8. A detailed description of the issue and various partial fixes can be found at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1891727&group_id=163434&atid=827733 I would recommend that the package maintainer apply the fix described in that page, namely --- /home/auroux/prog/xournal-0.4.1/src/xo-callbacks.c 2007-09-15 21:17:27.000000000 -0400 +++ xo-callbacks.c 2008-03-01 00:59:24.206908113 -0500 @@ -2523,6 +2523,7 @@ if (!ui.use_xinput && !is_core) return FALSE; if (ui.use_xinput && is_core && !ui.is_corestroke) return FALSE; if (!is_core) fix_xinput_coords((GdkEvent *)event); + if (!is_core) ui.is_corestroke = FALSE; looks_wrong = !(event->state & (1<<(7+ui.which_mouse_button))); It would also be worth figuring out whether XInput support is broken even further. In case anything further comes up, please contact me via sourceforge or e-mail at mylastname, since I don't normally monitor this website. Good luck! Denis
Just to clarify - the extra line of code eliminates an issue in Xournal, but doesn't affect the fact that linuxwacom 0.7.9 + Xorg 7.3 have greatly degraded XInput capabilities. The issue in Xorg has apparently recently been fixed, so I hope the code in linuxwacom that disables high-resolution input to work around the Xorg issue will soon be a bad memory. Once these issues are fixed, and with the above one-line patch applied, Xournal should have full functionality again. Denis
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't understand anything about this bug report. If you open a PDF file, the > eraser tool isn't supposed to do anything. It only erases strokes drawn in > Xournal, not the PDF background file. Ok, this might be due to my poor memory. I thought, the eraser used to work this way, but I'm apparently wrong. Anyway ,the issue also applies to pen and marker which to refer to would have actually been a better idea. Thanks!
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
0.4.2 (and the subsequent 0.4.2.1) have apparently fixed the Xorg issue.