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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4382020]gabi11[/MENTION]: Yes, the exact location of `somewhere´ is the problem. Notifications allow only gray-scale icons in newer Android versions, so that one cannot display a red blinking icon in the notification bar.

Yes, the `speaker´ icon allows to replay recordings and modify notebook content in parallel. When you replay a recording via an item in the `speaker´ menu, there is no automatic scrolling for obvious reasons. Note that you can start replaying a recording in notebook replay and continue it in notebook content view and vice versa. This allows, for instance, to use the search functionality in notebook replay and replay the found recording in notebook content view.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4382020]gabi11[/MENTION]: I just uploaded v2.6.17 into the app stores; with this version the problem that you reported should no longer occur.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gnoteuser2013:
Do PDF export in the background

Hello,

I was exporting pdfs and noticed that if I am in the middle of exporting then switch to another app, LectureNotes seems to pause exporting. When I switch back to the LectureNotes app, the exporting resumes, but starting over at page 1 of whatever notebook was interrupted. Is it possible to make exporting continue in the background?

Also, I was trying to set up Tasker to make LectureNotes automatically export all my notebooks according to a time schedule (say like every night at 12AM while I'm sleeping), but it appears that LectureNotes does not have an app activity for exporting all notebooks that Tasker can see. Do you have any advice on how I can accomplish this goal?

Thank you
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5184200]gnoteuser2013[/MENTION]: 1. PDF export in the background is on my agenda.

2. No, there is only an activity for single notebook PDF export. There is a menu item `Export notebooks board to PDF´ in the main menu (with a dialog asking whether to export only modified notebooks), if that helps.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gnoteuser2013:
PDF Export Modified Notebooks Only

Hello,

I recently exported all my notebooks to pdf to a separate folder on my tablet. I then uploaded all the pdf's from this folder to the cloud and deleted the pdfs from my tablet (to save storage space).

But now I notice if I do "export only modified notebooks", LectureNotes will actually re-export all my notebooks. It looks like it does not remember what notebooks were modified after I had emptied the folder that I had exported my notebook pdfs to earlier. Not sure what to do...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5184200]gnoteuser2013[/MENTION]: A notebook is considered as `modified´ if there is no PDF file.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gabi11:
Hi,

I noticed today (a little too late unfortunately ☺), that whenever I use lecturenotes and recording, pressing the home button stops the recoding.

Using note 4 on 5.0.1.

Thanks,

Gabi.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4382020]gabi11[/MENTION]: What actions do you perform after you press the `home´ button? The recording continues in the background even if LectureNotes is sent into background. However, when LectureNotes gets restarted, for instance when you share something to LectureNotes, the recording is stopped.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gabi11:
I figured what's the problem.

LectureNotes keeps recording after I press the home button, but the recording stops after I reopen lecturenotes through a notebook shortcut I have on my homescreen.

When reopening lecturenotes through the app icon, the recording continues.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4382020]gabi11[/MENTION]: A shortcut is another possibility that restarts LectureNotes (instead of just bringing it back to front).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] itsBasti:
Thanks for your post. Great alternate (:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Hi Acadoid, Lecturenotes is still my no.1 app by far. I'm very curious what's on your roadmap. Can you please give me some insight in what you are working on and what to expect next months? Thx!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5076672]gertgertgert[/MENTION]: The next major addition will be editable text boxes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gianlu92:
Hi, and thanks for your app, it's really a must have for us college students! I don't know if it has already been asked, but have you thought about the possibility to implement the text recognition for handwritten text (mostly formula to be honest) like the one that is in the S￿Note app? Cheers!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6591570]Gianlu92[/MENTION]: I have that on my agenda, but rather for the mid- to long-term future.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gabi11:
Hi [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]

I have a question about importing pdf as a notebook, and later exporting it again as pdf.

I recently needed to fill out some forms and send them through email.

It had 10 pages, and the size of the pdf was approximately 8 mb.

I imported the pdf as a notebook, filled out what I needed, and exported it back to pdf.

The size of the new pdf was around 40 mb....

Is there a way you can reduce it?

Is there a specific recommended way/ settings for importing and exporting pdf's?

Thanks,

Gabi.

Edit: after a little Google search I found about the option of exporting it in grayscale.

That way the "original 8mb file" was exported to a 23mb file.

Still to big to send through gmail... [emoji17].

I know it's not the original purpose of LectureNotes, but I thought it could save me from using another app for that.

Not to mention that I find LectureNotes the best for handwriting and editing on my note...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4382020]gabi11[/MENTION]: LectureNotes cannot directly handle PDF, this is why it uses PDFView to convert the PDF file to its own format. You can (re)export to PDF, but the PDF internal structure is lost and the PDF file can be smaller or larger than the original PDF file. If you wish to annotate PDF while keeping the PDF structure intact, you need to use a PDF viewer app.

An alternative is to export only the layer containing your annotations with transparency and combine the resulting PDF file with the original PDF file using tools such as pdftk. Let's say the original PDF file is original.pdf and the exported PDF file is annotations.pdf, then

pdftk original.pdf background annotations.pdf output final.pdf

yields a PDF file final.pdf containing both.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hajkan:
Couple questions

- Any plans to implement handwriting type of writing (via additional scribing window like in Fiinote)?

- Any plans to share the current page in non pdf formats (like text, image etc)?

- The pressure interpolation is horrible when the pen size is rather large. The strokes get "blobby" rather than smooth transitioning between small to big. It is quite steppy.

- Any plans to implement textured strokes for getting more natural look with the pens?

thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5336215]hajkan[/MENTION]: 1. I am not sure what you refer to as `handwriting type of writing´. A zoomed area to write into? If so: This input method is called `input zone´ in LectureNotes, cf. the app's input settings.

2. You can share notebook pages and selections as image/text via the `share´ menu (hidden by default, can be enabled in the app's menu settings).

3. What device and stylus are you using? It might be that your device sends non-smooth pressure values. Try whether enabling the `Savitzky-Golay-filter´ (lowest to medium order) in the filter setup in the app's input setting helps, possibly in combination with enabling `discard coordinates between Android events´.

4. Custom pencils allow for direction dependency. Or do you have something else in mind?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hajkan:
Hi

Thanks for the reply.

#3 I tried both on Note8 and Note10.1. The stroke quality is fine but the size transition is very blobby. I will try those settings, if those do not solve it I will try getting you some screenshots.

#4 When I said textured brush I mean brush types like pencil, painbrush type etc.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] unit714:
custom drawing tools problem

Dear Acadoid,

After an upgrade I noticed a strange behaviour of custom drawing tools.

If I choose, for example, the Horizontal Line tool and start drawing, the tool flickers unpleasantly between the "marching ants"

rectangular selection and the actual line being drawn. The flickering stops either when I stop moving the pen or after I release it.

This happens with virtually every custom drawing tools but does not happen with the preset tools like the Rectangle or Oval.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6076006]unit714[/MENTION]: What update do you refer to? An Android system update? If so, to which Android version?

In case your device got upgraded to Android 5.0 (LOLLIPOP): Google has revised the threading mechanism in Android 5.0, it takes now much longer until the JavaScript code gets executed. LectureNotes displays the actual custom drawing tool once the JavaScript got executed, until then a simple rectangle is shown. If you change the size significantly, the JavaScript code gets re-executed, and in meanwhile LectureNotes displays a simple rectangle again. Hold the stylus for a slight moment and the custom drawing tool will appear.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] unit714:
Yes, it was an upgade to Lollypop. Too bad things got slowed down because of this. I almost wish I hadn't upgaded, because the flickering is really annoying.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6076006]unit714[/MENTION]: You can enable `fast custom drawing tools rendering´ in the app's tools settings, then the custom drawing tool is only drawn once you left the stylus.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] unit714:
Thanks. This indeed stops the flickering, but does not always work for my needs, because I need to actualy see the size of the object to make a pricise drawing.

For example, I cannot draw a circle that is tangent to another one using this method.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rikblok:
LectureVideos colours offset when sharing video

Hi [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], I bought your LectureNotes and LectureVideos apps today -- they look great and I'm excited to get started using them!

Please redirect me if I'm posting this in the wrong location but I'm noticing a bug when sharing videos from my device: colours are vertically offset in the video. Black pens seem to work fine but other colours are offset by different amounts, depending on the colour. To see what I mean I posted a sample video at youtube.com/watch?v=K_EAIrTTKfk (sorry, I'm a noob here so I can't post links). The title is black, then I drew a red, green, and blue square side-by-side. Then I drew concentric squares (again, black, red, green, then blue). As you can see the colours don't show correctly and there's a cyan bar at the bottom of the screen.

Do you know what's going wrong? Could there be a problem with my settings? I'm running it on a tablet with an unusual aspect ratio (the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7") -- could that have something to do with it?

I've tried merging the 3GP and H264 files manually on my PC (using MKVToolNix) and it doesn't have the same problem so I suspect it's a problem with the muxing process in LectureVideos.

Thanks again for a neat set of apps -- I hope to see this fixed soon so I can start using them!

Rik
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=7591726]rikblok[/MENTION]: The primary video encoder and/or the primary video decoder on your device is not working properly. One can tell LectureVideos to use the secondary video encoder/decoder, but first we need to figure out whether it is the video encoder that causes the problem, the video decoder, or both. To do so, please record a short video (10 to 15 seconds duration) containing multiple colors and send the H264 and 3GP files to me by email. The H264 and 3GP files of a video are stored in the directory of the respective notebook, and the directory of the notebook is within the app directory. LectureNotes' default app directory (in case you have not set a custom one) is Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files, starting in the root of the internal SD card.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rikblok:
Thanks [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], I sent an email to your devel [a] acadoid.com account.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rikblok:
Thanks [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], for solving my problem with your email response!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], What's your favorite android tablet and stylus for use with lecturenotes? I'm in the market for a new tablet, but I don't want to give up lecturenotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4872371]werpnst8[/MENTION]: I recommend to use a device with an active stylus. For instance, the Samsung Note series with S-pen is pretty popular among LectureNotes' users.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GrandAdmiral:
Definitely agree. I love LectureNotes on my old Note 10.

[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]: is it possible to include a feature that will allow the export of certain pages in a notebook? I have a large file of meeting notes with managers. I typically have to export the entire thing and delete the other pages in order to send the newest updated out.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1533128]GrandAdmiral[/MENTION]: You can export a subset of pages in notebook overview by tagging the pages to be exported.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] r4ule:
Hello, I am new to this forum and a happy user of your app. For me as a teacher it is a very powerful tool.

Have you made any updates on the hyperlink feature you were talking about several pages before? At this moment I have not found the hyperlink feature, yet. I would very appreciate it to have this feature: tap on a picture, text, form, field etc. and open an audio/video file, weblink, ... (similar to as we know it from powerpoint).

This is a concrete example:

During music lessons it might be very useful to have a picture of a violin on my worksheet that I just have to tap on and an audio file with a sample recording will be opened (e.g. by the default audio player on my tablet). Another example: On LectureNotes I have the same digital worksheet as my pupils get printed to hold in their hands. Now, in the app when I tap on the picture of a pop star his official website will be opened, where I can get a preview of his newest hit.

I think you get the point. Could you build in this feature?

This would be a great feature!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=7821770]r4ule[/MENTION]: You can add links in the text layer, both the main field and supplementary fields. LectureNotes recognizes links starting with `http://´ and `https://´ (hyperlinks) as well as `file://´ (links to files) and `lecturenotes://´ (internal links). These links are clickable in `hand´ mode and open the linked material.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
I just got the new Samsung Tab A with Spen, and I'm trying to migrate my notebooks from my old note 10.1. Also, I want to store notebooks on the external sdcard card once migrated. I created a new folder on my SD card /sdcard/lecturenotes and within that I created 3 folders (LN, PDF, and ZIP) and copied my backup to the ZIP folder. In LectureNotes, I try to change the storage setting to the external card using the path sdcard/lecturenotes/LN but when I restart the app, it goes back to internal storage. I also try to restore and use my file manager to point to the zip file in the new location, but nothing is restored.

Is there something I'm missing in trying to use the external card?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4872371]werpnst8[/MENTION]: I assume that your device runs Android 4.4 (KITKAT) or later?

Google has revised access to the external SD card in Android 4.4, non-system apps can no longer freely access it despite requesting the `write storage´ permission.

You can use the external SD card as LectureNotes' app directory if you set it to ${EXTSDCARD}/Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files (where the placeholder ${EXTSDCARD} is to be replaced by the path of the external SD card on your device), which is the only directory that LectureNotes can write on the external SD card in Android 4.4 (KITKAT) and newer. Note that paths in Android are case-sensitive.

So, if the path to the external SD card is /storage/exSdCard (just an example, you need to determine the path on your device using a file manager app), you can use /storage/exSdCard/Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files as LectureNotes' app directory.

Note that the above only applies if your devices is not rooted; if your device is rooted, you can restore the pre-KITKAT behavior.

Also note that external SD cards occasionally have quality issues; I recommend to perform regular backups of your data.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
Thank you [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]. Please forgive my ignorance on this. I think I have the right path to my external card, and I've entered it in SETTINGS > STORAGE > APP DIRECTORY SETUP by clicking on the third item and typing in /storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files then OK. But when I exit the app and restart, it goes back to DEFAULT APP DIRECTORY and notebooks are being saved to the internal drive. I thought that maybe I have the incorrect path to my external card, so I tried a copy/paste using an app to find the path ("Path Copier" from google play store), the address says file/storage/9C33-6BBD/Android/data/com.acadoid.lecturenotes/files. If I use this path instead of the first one, I get the following error message "Cannot access app directory. This app needs a directory at the media/shared/external storage (SD card) to store the notebooks"

any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

**edit** forgot to mention that the tab is not rooted and uses android 6.0.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4872371]werpnst8[/MENTION]: Yes, the app directory can be set in the app directory setup in the app's storage settings.

I am not sure what a `path copier´ is, I recommend to use a file manager app to determine the path to the external SD card.

Starting with Android 6.0 (MARSHMALLOW), you can revoke app permissions in the device system settings. Ensure that LectureNotes has the STORAGE permission (which allows LectureNotes to read from and write to the file system).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
Thanks [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]. It was indeed the permissions that was the problem. Must have either defaulted to deny permission, or I didn't realize I needed to accept at installation.

I can now save notebooks to the external SD card. However, I get a new error when I test a backup and restore of the notebooks board. When I try to restore from a backed up zip file, I get an error that says "general error, cannot import." Do you know if there is yet another setting at the system level I need to allow?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4872371]werpnst8[/MENTION]: Glad to hear that I could help.

How exactly do you select the ZIP file? In particular, is it a local file on the device or a file in a cloud service? In the latter case, it might help to download the file to the device and restore from the local copy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
I click on RESTORE NOTEBOOK BOARD and then browse to the zip file. I've tried storing the file in my internal storage and on my external SD card. I even tried creating a new test notebook that I backed up, then deleted from the notebook board. When I try to restore it, I get the same error. That's why I thought maybe it's a permission issue that I don't know about.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4872371]werpnst8[/MENTION]: But you are able to create a new notebook with the new app directory settings (which means that the app directory is writable)? Then, extracting the ZIP archive should not be a problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] werpnst8:
Thanks for the help, Acadoid. I was able so create new notebooks and backup, but not restore. Not sure what was wrong. I just now uninstalled and started over and now all is well.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ENBroerse:
change pencil toolbox

I have a question about the pencil toolbox, I like to have the toolbox visible, but there are too many options in the box. Is the box adjustable so I can have, for example, 3 different colors and line, dashed line and circle?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6073096]ENBroerse[/MENTION]: You can adjust the overall shape and the content of the pencil toolbox in the pencil toolbox setup in the app's tools settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] cadilhac:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]: Speaking of which, I've never managed to have a functional ersatz of a calligraphy pen in LN. See for instance http://michael.cadilhac.name/private/ln.mp4 where I compare such a pen with a similar one in CloverPaint. (Sorry for the huge mp4.) This is *without* fast rendering.

Also, and completely unrelated, I've built up quite a collection of notebooks over the years. At this point, launching LN or just returning to the notebook board takes about 15 seconds on my Galaxy Note 12.2. Sometimes, Android would even be fed up and ask if I want to kill the app, which I refuse, cause it's inhuman. Is this expected?

M.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5068048]cadilhac[/MENTION]: How many notebooks are we talking about? Which notebooks board display mode do you use (standard icons, elaborate icons, text, or text as tree)? Do you have your notebooks arranged in a `flat´ fashion (meaning all notebooks be directly on the notebooks board) or within folders and subfolders?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] cadilhac:
Hi there [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], thanks for the prompt reply, as usual :) They are arranged in folders and I have some 164 of them. Again, if you don't mind, here's a video of the thingy (let me know when you've seen them so that I can trash them): http://michael.cadilhac.name/private/ln2.mp4 ; the ls -laR (resp. du -h) of the whole structure can be found at the same URL with ln2.mp4 replaced by lsLN.txt (resp duhLN.txt) (don't want this to be archived :) let me know when I can delete this). Cheers!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5068048]cadilhac[/MENTION]: Disable `display as tree´ in the notebooks board setup in the app's display settings, this will speed things up.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] cadilhac:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]: But I *do* want to display the board as a tree. How come displaying a hundred lines takes so long? Especially since there's no extra information in the tree. Is there some kind of preloading of the notebooks? I'd rather deactivate that if it's the case :)

—apart from that, any comment on the wobbly calligraphic pen?

Thanks, cheers!