Welcome to Quill Desktop’s documentation!¶
Quill is an open-source handwriting note-taking app for Android tablets. This program is a desktop companion for it. It lets you view .quill backup files without your Android device, and/or convert them to different formats.
- GitHub project page: https://github.com/vbraun/QuillDesktop/
- This documentation: http://vbraun.github.com/QuillDesktop/
If you are looking for Quill the Android app:
- Google play market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.write.Quill
- Google code project page: http://code.google.com/p/android-quill/
Use as a GUI Viewer¶
This program is as PyGTK application, so it will run on pretty much any platform if you have GTK, PyGTK, and PyCairo installed. Use the --gui switch to show the graphical user interface.
EXAMPLES:
[user@localhost]$ quill --gui
Use as a Command-Line Converter¶
If you specify input and output filename. The format is automatically detected from the file extension.
EXAMPLES:
[user@localhost]$ quill input.quill output.pdf
Possible input file formats are:
- input.xoj: Xournal (http://xournal.sourceforge.net)
- input.quill: Quill’s own file format
Possible output file formats are:
- output.pdf: portable document format (PDF)
- output.ps: Postscript (PS)
- output.svg: scalable vector graphics (SVG)
- output.xoj: Xournal’s file format
- output.quill: Quill’s own file format
Programmers Guide¶
Want to add support for your favorite file format? Head over to the Programmers Guide and find out how!
Authors¶
- Volker Braun: Framework, GUI, more export file formats.
- Nicholas A. Knouf (http://zeitkunst.org): Initial quill to SVG converter.
- Yuri Shirman: Xournal export
License¶
GPL v3
