Cournal is a collaborative note taking and journal application using a stylus.
Cournal allows multiple users to annotate PDF files in real-time.
The goal of this project is a full featured note taking application (like Xournal or Windows Journal), which allows multiple people to collaborate (like Gobby).
There have been numerous discussions over many years on the Xournal mailing list and Xournal++ even had experimental networking support, but it didn't work out. So I started Cournal, which got networking support just after PDF viewing and simple drawing was done. Therefore it was designed with networking in mind from scratch.
Yes, but you might miss some features (to change that, see next section ;-)).
You are very welcome to support the project!
To get into Cournal hacking, have a look at LINKS.md, which contains a list of most things you need to know. Feel free to contact me, if questions arise or if you want to improve Cournal, but don't know how to get started.
- Python 3.x
- Poppler 0.18 or newer
- Cairo
- GObject Introspection
- GTK+ 3.2 or newer (GTK+ 3.4 or newer is strongly recommended)
- Python bindings for all above this line
- ZopeInterface 3.6.0 or newer
- Twisted
- Build-time: Gettext, Intltool
There are packages for Gentoo and Arch Linux. Users of other distributions can use the following guide:
- Download the latest Cournal release
tar xvf cournal-?.?.?.tar.gzcd cournal-?.?.?python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txtsudo python3 setup.py installcournal
./cournal-server.py -p [portnumber]
Start Cournal, select "Annotate PDF" and then "Connect to Server".
Please report bugs on https://github.com/flyser/cournal/issues.
The file format is compatible to Xournals .xoj files, but Cournal is not able to open some .xoj files created by Xournal, because it doesn't support all features of the file format. The other way around should work though.