After 1.5 years in the making, GNOME Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text ...

2026-01-30 21:35:03 UTC

After 1.5 years in the making, GNOME (npub1dug…kxeq) Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text & ink annotations on PDFs (using a Wacom tablet stylus, for example), i.e. drawing & handwriting (to circle things or sign documents the old-fashioned way, or highlighting on scanned documents): https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/drawing-writing-with-papers/

Used it in practice today. I've been hoping for this for about 20 years.
Papers nightly is such a massive improvement!

Thank you lbaudin (npub159u…054t) for implementing it

#GNOMEPapers #PDF #Poppler

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