#REDIRECT This page discusses some of the [[usoftware libre]] available for annotating digital documents, especially in the context of a pen-enabled tablet or similar input method. ==Production Ready=====Jarnal===[http://jarnal.wikispaces.com/ Jarnal] is Java-based PDF annotation software. It runs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows. ===Okular===[http://okular.kde.org/ Okular] is the KDE document viewer. While the underlying PDF reader library [[w:Poppler (software)|Poppler]] does not yet [http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations support annotations], Okular stores inking information its own database. Okular is a part of KDE and as such available for Linux, Mac OS and Windows as part of the KDE suite (sometimes packaged with kdegraphics). ===Xournal===[[Xournal]] is a GTK+-based inking application. It runs on Linux and potentially on other platforms. Annotationof PDFs is supported by loading a [[w:Poppler (software)|Popplar]]-rendered PDF as a background image, but it requires that annotations be saved to a separate .xoj file or exported to a new PDF file, and does not support annotating PDF files directly. ==Under Development=====Braindump===http://blog.cberger.net/category/open-source/braindump/ ===KDE-Based Digital Whiteboard===http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1012 ==See Also==* [[Dynamic and networked presentation]]* [[Notetaking]] [[Category:Libre course software]][[Category:Comparisons of desktop software]]