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makh

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 299

<SOLVED> Xournal pdf exporting of lower quality

I added some highlighting and text to the original pdf within the xournal. But the output quality of the original pdf changes (text with drawing), after exporting. Is there a way around.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/manual.html#printing
states:

"If Xournal is unable to parse the PDF file, the poppler/cairo renderer is used instead to generate a new PDF file from scratch. "

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by makh (2015-08-24 09:20:10)

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makh

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 299

Re: <SOLVED> Xournal pdf exporting of lower quality

Solution is:

Import pdf into libreoffice.

Edit it and save it, next export back into pdf.

The quality is same.

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OS:  Arch  &/  Debian
System: LENOVO ThinkPad E14
Desktop: Xfce

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: <SOLVED> Xournal pdf exporting of lower quality

I think it is good to state here for the benefit of others that will stumble upon this post searching for a solution, that it is to choose Options -> Legacy PDF export . This completely fixed the resolution of the exported PDF for me.

Sorry, I won't necropost again.

Last edited by geo909 (2016-01-10 02:34:51)

lverissimo

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Registered: 2016-08-06

Posts: 1

Re: <SOLVED> Xournal pdf exporting of lower quality

Thanks Geo909 for your necropost. It worked perfectly for me to!
If it wasn't for your post, I would have been stuck in pdf editor...
Regards