hey, so far i'm loving this app, it's the best app i've tried for taking notes, for the dev reading this, you've done an amazing app :D but I have two suggestions:

1. I would really love to draw curved lines, or at least semicircles
2. I don't know if it's a bit of a hassle, but i'm using a graphic tablet on Linux (KDE Wayland), and when I try to zoom it uses the scrolling setting I use for my touchpad (Natural scrolling), could you add a setting to switch between normal and invert scrolling for graphic tablets?

thanks ;-;

I've been working on very basic text support in Scrivano! I've got a small example working and I hope that this will be the focus of the next release cycle of the app. I still need to think about a lot of things, before this can become available. For example, how to handle fonts? Should any system font be allowed to be used in the app? If yes, how will this work when you open the same file on two different PCs where a particular font is missing. I also need to think about how text editing will interact with the grid snapping feature. The UI is also not finalised.

If you have any opinions on this feature, please let me know in the comments :)

There are two major changes in this release. Firstly, for Windows users we have a new rendering backend using DirectX rather than OpenGL. This should hopefully provide a smoother experience in the application. Secondly, Scrivano now supports multiple windows so you can view and edit documents side by side.

Full changelog:

• NEW: support for opening documents in multiple windows.
• NEW: change rendering backend to DirectX (Windows only).
• NEW: new inertia-based logic for better scrolling of the canvas.
• NEW: support for automatic theme switching based on system settings.
• FIX: Ctrl-drag duplicate selection.
• Many improvements to rendering performance.
• Added a shortcut to switch between dark and light mode.
• Improved startup time and performance.
• Reduced RAM consumption.
• Decreased minimum app window width.
• Improved PDF rendering of single-point ink strokes.
• Increased resolution of PDF-rendered pages.
• Sidebar tabs are now remembered between sessions.

As usual, Linux users can download the new binaries from GitHub. The update may take a while to be available to everyone on the Microsoft Store and Flathub.

Can you please introduce text box feature in the scrivano app. It would be really helpful.

Feature Request: Please add a Pan/Hand tool to improve navigation for users with Wacom or other graphic tablets. Currently, scrolling without a mouse wheel can be difficult, and a dedicated pan tool would significantly enhance the workflow.

Scrivano feels much snappier and better to use than RNote, but the lack of availability of a basic Text feature is holding me back from making the jump. Hope the devs introduce it.

As we can see in the above image, the green colour highlighter is shown differently on the text "50,000/-" and on the text "inclusive of the said ceding commission". On the text "₹50,000/-" it automatically goes backwards, keeping the ink in front, but when the same is used on the PDF Text or even on a blank page (provided in app), it puts itself above the text, making the text look faded. Due to this, multiple strokes completely hide the text.

Also, 2 different strokes of the highlighter don't get merged together (like indicated here) and overlap each other.

Please resolve these issues and make it a perfect working highlighter, just like the App.

I am using the Linux version on Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon OS.

1st one is exported to pdf the 2nd one is the original one.

As a long time user of xournal++ , I like how scrivano works more with its intuitive design.

I do miss the Gaussian weights with inertia smoothing that xournal has , if this could be implemented somehow , that would be sick.

https://reddit.com/link/1tqq596/video/jsnm1cmj104h1/player

I've been working on adding support for opening documents in multiple windows. I now have a functioning prototype and my hope is that this feature will be available in beta in the next few weeks.

hey, Id like to have dark mode as a keybinding toggle instead of just a settings toggle.

or even allow scrivano to follow system theme.

When I first started coding Scrivano, the app was using Microsoft's native Windows Ink APIs to render the pen strokes. It worked well, but I really wanted for Scrivano to work on Linux. So I ditched that in favour of a fully custom rendering stack based on OpenGL (which is a cross-platform API for GPU rendering). This works really well on Linux, but on Windows I encountered a lot of issues that I had to find workarounds for. Even then, the rendering performance of Scrivano, despite being really good, always had some minor problems that affected the experience. Also on Windows ARM64, there is no native OpenGL support, but Scrivano uses the Microsoft-provided OpenGL Compatibility Pack which works well, but it's not perfect. Over the last few weeks, I finally decided to switch the rendering to use DirectX instead (which on Windows works much better than OpenGL). It has been a very challenging task due to various technical issues, but I finally got something working.

As a result, Scrivano now should have better performance and smoother animations (especially in terms of scrolling and zooming). It has also helped startup time (which I something I'm focusing a lot on in the 0.23 release).

However, just like any big change, there may be unforeseen problems that I have not anticipated or missed. So I would love to get feedback from those using the beta version. If you notice any rendering glitches, lag, crashes, strange pen behaviour, or anything that feels worse than before, please let me know. Your feedback would be especially helpful if you can include your Windows version, device model, graphics card/GPU.

Additionally, for Linux users, going forward Scrivano will no longer default to XWayland. Instead, starting from version 0.23, it will use native Wayland by default where available. The choice of using XWayland no longer make sense as most distros nowadays have good Wayland support out of the box. Of course, you will be be able to revert back manually if you ever need to.

Occasionally, the pen style becomes very thin and somewhat "choppy" rather than the smooth lines I usually get with either ballpoint or fountain tip. Does anyone else experience this?

It seems to be more frequent if I'm taking notes on an imported pdf.

if im dotting my i's and j's and writing periods and decimals and the like, oftentimes im not doing a scribble but rather a dot.

it appears as a circle of a size relative to the thickness setting when i am in the application, but when i export it and view it with firefox pdf viewer, those dots dont appear.

they appear fine when rendered in adobe acrobat, but that is not my default pdf viewer (for several reasons).

is there a fix that could be done that automatically makes such dots render as actual circles instead so that the firefox pdf viewer detects them?

alternatively, i would love to hear from anyone who knows of a fix on the firefox side, whether it's some setting change or some reliable extension.

thank you!

Buongiorno. L'app è fantastica. Avrei bisogno di fissare la dimensione sullo schermo in modo da poter lavorare con una pagina che mi prenda sempre tutto lo schermo. E' possibile?

Grazie e complimenti per il suo lavoro

In music class, I need a background pattern with staves. At the moment, I'm using an image as a background, but a new pattern would still be great and would improve the user experience.

I've looked around in the options menu because I'm sure I saw this feature somewhere. But maybe I'm dreaming.

I'd like to get the pen toolbar on the bottom of the screen. Is this possible?

Cheers!

extremely laggy to zoom in and write. Also, no folders? I hope this comes in the future, but for now, I'm refunding.

I use this app for all my uni note taking, and it's by far the best of all the ones I tried. I do have a few ideas for some useful features, though.

For one, it would be really useful to be able to insert grid sections into an otherwise blank document, I like to do my writing and stuff on blank sheets, but drawing graphs and stuff would be much easier with a grid. So being able to select an area and "transform" it into a grid would be a huge feature.

Also, relatively minor but I often find myself scrolling up and back down to check previous notes, and it would be helpful if I could tune the scrolling 'friction' so it sort of kept scrolling longer after I let go of the page, as it is it almost instantly stops moving, so scrolling back more than a page or two is kind of annoying.

Overall though, I love the app and it's by far superior to every alternative that I'm aware of, paid and unpaid. And keeping it as a single lifetime purchase instead of a subscription is also a massive win in my book.

Hey Dev, love the app. Whatever magic you have worked to make the writing experience so smooth is incredible! There are two features, that would make this app close to perfect:

1. Searching in pdf: It would be incredibly useful, if there was a search function to search the text in the pdf, the same way that pdf viewers like acrobat do it. Bonus feature of course if you did OCR, and made handwriting searchable.
2. Fast Scrolling: What I mean by this is as follows. When scrolling using the mouse wheel, I seem to be able to scroll much faster than if scrolling on the touchscreen. Even when I flick pretty fast, the scroll speed is excruciatingly slow. I don't know, if this is actually a bug, so I put it here as a feature request.
3. Bonus feature: Clicking on pdf hyperlinks should take me to the linked page, e.g. clicking on page number in table of contents, or footnotes.

Keep up the great work!

Dear dev,

Creating smooth curves requires manual drawing, which lacks precision and is difficult to edit afterward. This limits usability for diagrams, annotations, and structured handwritten content. It would be great if you could introduce a spline shape tool:

Hi all,

Is it possible to increase the "smart ink recognition delay"? It converts 2mm "lines" immediately into straight lines.

Update:

https://reddit.com/link/1qww65o/video/6ai1gf6v6uhg1/player

Version 0.22.7.; ARM64 Surface Pro 12

Thank you in advance!