Project Blueprint for Linux

What "beta" means

Everything in the Mac and Windows apps is here, and it has been tested on Ubuntu 24.04 (Intel and Arm). It is a beta because it's new and has had less real-world use than the Mac and Windows apps. If anything looks wrong, email support@blueprintformac.com and it will be fixed quickly.

Known limits in this beta:

• Drag and drop with other apps isn't available on Linux yet. Use File ▸ Open, and right-click pages ▸ Extract Pages… to save pages as a new PDF.
• Screen readers (such as Orca) can't read the app yet.
• On Wayland desktops (the default on recent Ubuntu and Fedora) the app runs through XWayland. It works, but has had less testing than X11.

Install

• Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS: download the .deb, then run sudo apt install ./project-blueprint_1.1.7_amd64.deb in the folder you saved it to. It adds Project Blueprint to your apps, opens PDFs, and installs the optional text recognition (Tesseract), spell checking (Hunspell) and audio notes (ffmpeg).
• Other distributions (Fedora, Arch, openSUSE…): download the AppImage, make it executable (chmod +x Project-Blueprint-1.1.7-x86_64.AppImage) and run it. Some systems need libfuse2 first. Install tesseract, hunspell and ffmpeg from your distribution for those features.

Licence

One Blueprint licence works on any two computers you personally use, Mac, Windows or Linux. Keys you already have work on Linux: open File ▸ Licence, paste the key and click Activate.

During the beta, Linux users buy the Windows Founder licence (US$19, every 1.x update). It works on Linux, Windows and Mac. Linux will get its own 100 Founder licences when it leaves beta.

Buy a Founder licence · US$19

What you need

Your files stay yours

Drawings stay as ordinary PDFs in your own folders. Text recognition runs on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to us; only licence and update checks use the network.