xournal
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Open-source tool for handwritten notetaking, sketching, journaling with stylus support. Annotate and export PDFs, manipulate layers, use custom pens and drawing tools. Runs on Linux, Windows, and GTK+/GNOME. Suitable for tablets and low-resource devices.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
It hasn't been updated since 2017, but there is an active fork 
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- Danilo Venom updated xournal
Cue Congress added xournal as alternative to Pdf2Screen
kikyoh-choh added xournal as alternative to ShelfStream
Paul added xournal as alternative to SpeedyNote
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Denis Auroux, Tristan MillerLicensing
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First app that was usable to actually edit and annotate PDFs. Graphics capabilities sometimes are fiddly though.
Easy way to make small additions to PDFs
Great app for PDF annotation. It will make the text remain selectable and copyable.
You can annotate PDF as if you were using a paper, without special textboxes as in other PDF editors. In addition, Xournal saves your annotations in a separate XOJ file, which is really small compared with the original PDF. Having a separated file for annotations, I can share the PDF without sharing them, and I don’t need to duplicate the PDF, saving space. Downsides are an outdated interface, and a rare way of using tools.
Ocular app is very good but I got surprised about Xournal , even better ... Can export PDF notes to PDF . http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74882.html