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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4262679]Cocax[/MENTION]: 1. I am considering to create a sibling of PDFView (PPTView and/or DOCView) that will allow to import PPT and DOC into LectureNotes. However, I have not yet come across a free library that can handle these files.

2. This is difficult, as PDF can consist of pages of different sizes and orientations, whereas a LectureNotes' notebook cannot.

3. A frame in the sense of a rectangle of a given color and line width?

4. You can delete and insert pages using the corresponding items in the `hand´ menu.

5. LectureNotes looks for 3GP files (audioX.3gp where X is 1, 2, ...), but a recordings requires also a RC file (audioX.rc, for remote control). The RC file needs to have at least one line which is the recording start time in standard format (milliseconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00.0 UTC). One can manually provide that, but then there will (obviously) be no scrolling.

6. Interesting idea. There is a bit of complication as users can write left-to-right as well as right-to-left, so that the box has to extend to the right or to the left.

7. I will give this a higher priority.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
Thanks for the answers, as always!

1- But it probably still wouldn't allow to make it 2 slides on an A4 page... Do you or does anybody know of any app that can print to PDF with multiple pages per page?

2-So, does this mean that the rotation I ask for in 4 is not possible, i.e. having a notebook in portrait and rotate a single page to landscape?

3 - yes, something like that. When I import an image, I want to be able to make it have a line/border around it (of a given color and width) before inserting the image

4-I knew I was missing something!

5-Humm, I'm going to try that, thanks!

6-You could have a setting for the user to choose if he wants it to extend to the right or to the left (like, below the option for bidirectional writing)

7-Yes, thanks a lot!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4262679]Cocax[/MENTION]: 1. Tools such as pdfnup (http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfnup) can do that.

2. No, that's not possible. Continuous page view would not work (or at least not work well) if page did not have the same size and orientation.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gnoteuser2013:
Hi,

I am thinking to get a Samsung Ativ tablet that has an S-pen and runs Windows 8. But the big thing keeping me from making the switch is the lack of LectureNotes (or very similar) app for the system. Is there any plan or possibility to get LectureNotes onto Windows 8?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5184200]gnoteuser2013[/MENTION]: There are presently no plans to port LectureNotes to Windows.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] klau1:
That's way too bad.

That's one program people would buy (and pay PC software prices) since Microsoft isnt interested in making OneNote work for Android

---------- Post added at 11:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 PM ----------

You do realize Samsung has S-Note that works across all their devices right? So yes there's even an snote for windows 8, if you have a Samsung PC or notebook.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] link6155:
Yup, and you can even side load the S-Note app on any windows 8/8.1 device: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47800742&postcount=49
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] drdoombot:
I accidentally deleted a notebook and then created a new notebook with the same name (d'oh!).

I have dropsync setup to sync all of my LectureNotes files, but for some reason, none of the deleted files are showing up on the dropbox website (only the new ones).

Is there any way at all to recover this notebook? It has notes I need for tomorrow's final!

Maybe someone knows of a deleted files recovery tool for Android? I don't know if even that will work because a new notebook with the same name has been created, overwriting the old files... :(
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] nickhimself:
Funny you should mention this. I ultimately decided not to make the switch from a Note to the Surface due to the latter, while being a touchscreen device meant for media and students (based on their advertising), having no handwriting software for notes. If Lecture Notes were ported to Windows 8, I'd probably switch over. Lecture Notes is too useful and developed for me to accept anything less from competing software, or in this case, hardware.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] klau1:
How does OneNote (on the Surface Pro) compare to Lecture Notes (on Android)

You can't compare OneNote on Android to LectureNotes since OneNote on Android is gimped.

Have you tried the full OneNote on the Surface Pro?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
But that's not an android app, is it?

I've found this app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psx2pal.pdfbuilder) that can make PDFs with multiple pages per page through this helper app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psx2pal.pdfprint). I tried it, but it crashes a lot. However, the helper app is based on the MuPDF library, which is the same you use on PDFView, isn't it? Can't you add the option on PDFView or LN to control how many pages of the PDF we want on a single page of the notebook?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
See this: https://www.dropbox.com/help/11/en

Or this: https://www.dropbox.com/help/296/en

Hope those help...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4262679]Cocax[/MENTION]: pdfnup is a command line tool that exists on many OS. To add an option to have 2-nup, 4-nup, etc. is possible, I noted that down.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
hi acadoid,

first thing first i wanted to say how awesome i think this app is! i've been using it for the last week and it's been a great experience... much better then the samsung alternative!

i was just wondering if there's any plan on adding more shapes to the drawing tool.. it would be really helpful to have more options during lectures...

was also wondering if there's a way to edit text after inserting it using the text drawing tool

thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: Many thanks.

1. The next update v2.4 will come with custom drawing tools coded in JavaScript (similar to custom paper pattern). This will allow for all kinds of complex drawing tools.

2. No, the material of the text drawing tool is inserted into the working layer and can be altered afterwards (besides erasing and retyping, of course); this is in difference to the text layer.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
sounds awesome!

another thing i think could be nice is the ability to delete something you wrote by scratching over it (like in onenote)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: Do you refer to the possibility to delete whole lines or strokes at once?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
what i mean is something like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLzlJPxzg_s
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: This is rather difficult in the bitmap-based approach that LectureNotes uses. I understand that this is not what you suggest, but note that LectureNotes eraser has a lasso-functionality, so that encircling an area erases the interior.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
that's even better!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tlkh:
Minor thing. Is it just me or is LectureNotes slower in registering pen input than S Notes and Adobe Reader? Is there a way to make pen input more smooth? I heard AOSP is smoother, but I'm reluctant to make the jump.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2838182]tlkh[/MENTION]: Please ensure that `enforce GPU/hardware rendering´ is not enabled in the device's developer settings, this slows down LectureNotes a lot.

If you are using LectureNotes on the 2014 Galaxy Note 10.1 (or other devices with a high resolution display), try to enable `use fast page rendering´ (not to be mixed with `use fast temporary rendering´) in the app's display settings. If this option is enabled, a faster but less accurate scheme is used to render notebook pages on the display. The difference will hardly be noticeable on a high resolution display (except for extreme zoom levels), but response to writing, scrolling, and zooming will significantly improve.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Is there any way to allow importing audio files for the Lecture Recordings app? Sometimes I record through my voice recorder as it has a better microphone and would love to be able to make it all organized via LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: There is no such import function, but it is an interesting idea. However, such audio recording would not have any information assigned with respect to the notebook, so that there would not be any scrolling.

Note that LectureNotes allows to set links to files and web addresses as keywords, it understands `file://´, `http://´, and `https://´. When you create an index for the notebook, these special `keywords´ are clickable and open a file or a web browser. Hence, you could use the `file://´ `keyword´ to link your audio file to a notebook.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Would it be viable to allow you to set a page it would go to when you start the audio file? It'd be a great feature for those who can't get an external microphone in this small market. I've been looking for a good one, but haven't came up with much luck.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Speaking of the recording plugin, does anyone know a good "merge audio and video" app for android? Preferably one that made the output format something another Android device easily could play, like .mpg or .mp4!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: You can manually insert the recording into the corresponding notebook directory. LectureNotes checks for audioX.3gp and audioX.rc, where X is 1, 2, 3, and so on. If you already have, let's say four recordings, copy the 3GP file to audio5.3gp and create a file audio5.rc. The latter file contains the `remote control´, the format is simple: The first line is the start time of the recording in standard format (number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00.0 UTC); each following line has the same format, milliseconds since start time, the page UUID, the page number, tile X, and tile Y (tile X and tile Y are between 0 and 8, with (0,0) being the upper left and (8,8) being the lower right corner). For instance

1378389232000

1000 fb589857-2cd5-4bf2-b2f0-a618da34249d 2 0 0

would be a recording starting Sep 4, 2013 15:32:52 CEST, and after 1000 milliseconds, LectureNotes scrolls to the page with UUID fb589857-2cd5-4bf2-b2f0-a618da34249d, which is page 2, at the tile (0,0), i.e., the upper left corner. The page UUID are stored in uuidX.txt, where X is the page number. Note that the page UUID is the crucial reference, the page number is redundant (and corrected when you rearrange pages in notebook overview).

Please take care the LectureNotes is not running when playing around with its files.

[MENTION=2505694]Axel_[/MENTION]: There are several FFmpeg ports to Android, for instance the `FFmpeg Media Encoder´. This app can multiplex the video stream (extension `h264´) and the audio stream (extension `3gp´) that LectureVideos produces. Lets say you have video1.h264 and video1.3gp in the directory /storage/sdcard0, then select the 3gp file as input (/storage/sdcard0/video1.3gp), set an MP4 file as output (/storage/sdcard0/video1.mp4), and use

-r 12 -i /storage/sdcard0/video1.h264 -b 1.5M

as additional parameters. The multiplexing takes quite a while on an Android device.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] xd-galaxy:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have a minor problem: Sometimes when I write something, when I lift the pen at the end of a letter, the pen will jump and create a small line. Here's a picture of what it looks like: i.imgur.com/VSEXWtX.png

As you can see it doesn't happen that often, but it's still often enough to be annoying. Any idea why this happen?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5454172]xd-galaxy[/MENTION]: This is a problem on many Samsung devices. Enable the `pressure filter´ in the filter setup in the app's input settings with a threshold of 5% or so (whether you enable `enforce lifting´ is a matter of taste, most users disable that).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
I greatly enjoy the v2.4 update about custom drawing tools! Drawing on grid satisfies lots of my need of nice-looking drawing. This is a great improvement compared with early versions!

The only thing is that performance is a bit slow (about 0.5 second lag). Would it be possible that the speed is a bit optimized in the future?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Great!

Great new version with drawing tool improvements. Lecturenotes is still getting better and better. I cannot do without it on my Note 10.1. Thanks again and keep up the great work acadoid!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4949781]tririver[/MENTION] & gertgertgert: I am glad to hear that you like the custom drawing tools.

[MENTION=4949781]tririver[/MENTION]: No, the response time is determined by the JavaScript engine. There is an option in the app's tools settings to use a simple rectangle for size selection, which is naturally much faster.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4949781]tririver[/MENTION] & gertgertgert: It turned out that there is a problem with the custom drawing tools. I already uploaded v2.4.1, please update to this version.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] bbjr:
The custom drawing tools are a great addition and will come in handy, thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MAO2200:
I would like to make a couple of requests:

- The ability to choose the size of the pages for each page in a notebook (for example, p. 1 A4, p. 2 A3, etc ...);

- The ability to split the screen into two, so as to take notes on a page looking at other pages (for example, having to take notes on the work to be done in an apartment, it is convenient to have the opportunity to look at the plan of the apartment and take notes on one side of the page or on a different page).

thanks

P.S.: I forgot, you can enable "input zone" with stylus hardware detection?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1040579]MAO2200[/MENTION]: 1. All notebook pages have to have the same size, otherwise continuous page view would not work.

2. To allow to have more than one notebook open is on my agenda. What you can do in the meanwhile (in case you use a Samsung device that supports that) is to use LectureNotes in multi-window mode and open for instance a PDF viewer app aside.

3. The `input zone´ is actually for users without active stylus. You can use an active stylus in the `input zone´, but I guess your suggestion is to ignore finger touch in the input zone, right?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MAO2200:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]

1) Not giving up the continuous vision of the pages?

2) Thank you for taking this into consideration.

3) Sometimes you prefer to work visualizzazndo the entire page, and would be handy to have "input zone" also enabled with active stylus.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pdaaalex:
Would I be able to use the Note to attend a call (I call the conference room with the note), and then, with LectureRecording to record the audio of the call while taking notes? Would lecture recording allow this?

This is a quite important scenario for enterprise usage :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3042338]pdaaalex[/MENTION]: Interesting idea, but no, I do not think that this will work. First, LectureRecordings records only what comes from the microphone. Second, if you accept the call, the access to the microphone is probably blocked, and LectureNotes will not record anything.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Robdyx:
Hello, just a quick feature request. I'd like to draw a paper pattern with a primary checkered pattern for handwritting (no problems here) with a secondary half sized light grey checkered pattern for precision drawing. Looks like the LN.drawCheckeredPattern command only allows for line thickness, but can't get another color than the user selected for the notebook. Also being able to add an alpha multiplier or something like that that to easily keep the original color but making it more 'secondary' would be cool.

Also, looks like grid drawing tools only stick to the primary grid, I guess I'd need a variable to choose sticky grids.... *breathing intensifies*

EDIT: nevermind, found an easier way to do it setting the main grid as the smaller and adding

To draw the bigger grid.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2658447]Robdyx[/MENTION]: Yes, LN.drawCheckeredPattern() allows only to adjust the line thickness but uses the standard pattern color; one could add variants that use the current color or that allow to set the color.

But to draw a checkered pattern is easy, as you have found yourself.

You can also code custom drawing tools that follow a finer grid, just clone the existing examples and modify them accordingly.

Note that there is an custom paper pattern example `double-checkered´ which should be close to what you wish to achieve, besides the color.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
I started a separate thread for custom drawing tools at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2610695, feel free to post additional codes there.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mmcnulty:
Nevermind. Just saw there is a drawing tools discussion. Heading over there.

Hey,

Really like the custom drawing tools. All the built in "examples" are great.

Maybe someone can help me though, as I don't know anything about creating one myself, and dont have the time at the moment to figure it out.

I'd like to create three drawing tools which are similar to existing ones

The tools I could use are:

-Therefore. As in, ==> Right now there are tools for arrows, I'd pretty must just like two horizontal lines instead of one.

-If and only if. As in, <==>. Right now there are tools for two headed arrow lines. Again, pretty must the same as that but two horizontal lines.

-Coordinate System, but with the addition of preplaced labels for each axis. That is, when giving it things like y min and y max, would it also be possible to have it ask for a text field for labels? So that label would show up, and scale with the rest of it?

If anyone who can tell me what to do, or better yet, provide the code for it, that would be great.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Widget21:
I've briefly used LN on note 10.1 todau and couldn't figure out how to insert images to pages. Also clipped an image from a website, copied it to clipboard but couldn't find the paste function on LC. Is this possible at all?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hygradeb:
Hi

Few things

why does my ink colours keep disappearing on each update?

I have set colours I use every day, Brown, grey and it takes me a long time to get them right

What can be done so I don't go through this each time?

Why have you not added custom pages that have I.e one page to write and one to draw blank or checked so new comers can use.

Will you be added triangles to the custom draw and also add a floating custom draw the same as the pencil toolbox.

If I set pressure on in the filter input setup do I still need to turn on pressure to each custom pencil or does this make all pressure sensitive?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kumabjorn:
Tap the menu button and select import image.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Is it possible to allow lecture recordings to continue playing even in the background?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3325068]Widget21[/MENTION]: Images in the `Download´ folder can easily be imported via `Paste from non-standard clipboard´ in the `cutter´ menu. `Import image´ in the main menu and selecting the file in the `Download´ folder (as described by Kumabjorn) is of course another option.

[MENTION=4131263]hygradeb[/MENTION]: Custom pencils should not change upon update, I do not see how that could possibly occur. When you save your custom pencils to a `palette´, does the `palette´ disappear as well upon update? Are there other LectureNotes' settings that get reset upon update?

Individual patterns per page are on my agenda. In principle, this can already be achieved using custom paper pattern.

Triangles as custom drawing tools can be done. However, how should the two points (starting point and current point) define the triangle? Even in the case of an equilateral triangle, one would still need to define whether the triangle is above or below the line connecting start and end point.

Custom drawing tools can be added to the pencil toolbox in the pencil toolbox setup in the app's tools settings.

Pressure filter means that LectureNotes discards input for which pressure is below threshold, this does not mean that width and opacity scales with pressure (besides the on/off due to the threshold, of course).

[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: When you start LectureNotes, it sends LectureRecordings a kind of `stand by´ command so that you can record and replay audio in LectureNotes. This `stand by´ command causes LectureRecordings to stop any replay. To change this behavior would be rather complicated. However, the audio files that LectureRecordings produces are standard 3GP files, so that you could replay with another audio replayer.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GioDoe:
One possibility for triangles is to handle them the way Adobe Illustrator does: starting point defines the centre, current point is one of the three vertices. This way the triangle develops around its centre.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Hello is there any reason why when I select enable high quality recording, that my recording is in slow motion? I'm on CM10.2 Note 10.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4575293]GioDoe[/MENTION]: That's a good idea. But this would allow for equilateral triangles only, right?

[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: Sorry, I do not understand. What do you refer to by `recording in slow motion´?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Thank you for the quick response. What I mean is that when I record and play it back, the voice recorded is really slow. Maybe 0.5x speed. Disabling the high quality works fine though but I'd like to record higher quality lectures if possible.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: That's pretty weird and of course not what is supposed to happen. Sounds as if the MediaRecorder/MediaPlayer (that LectureRecordings uses to record and to replay) in your custom ROM is slightly broken.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GioDoe:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]: yes, Illustrator draws equilateral triangles
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4131263]hygradeb[/MENTION] & GioDoe: Triangles (and squares) will be available with the next update.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
In the other thread I posted a script that draws a regular n-gon. Feel free to use it in your next update if you wish (you can also modify it to improve it, of course).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] polzavotel:
Hi. Is it possible to get rid of page numbers in an index of exported pdf? I want it to contain only bookmarks (keywords).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1546229]polzavotel[/MENTION]: No, the keywords are grouped by page. One could also have a `flat´ arrangement; in fact, I have that already on my to-do-list.

EDIT: I added such option, this will be part of the next update.