[Xerte-dev] Re: printing and possibly pdf generation test

Mon Sep 1 11:40:17 BST 2014

liked it so much he said it thrice! ;-) I got three copies too...

As you say Tom it's complicated as to what to do with various page types and
this is nothing very clever at the moment apart from a loop increasing the
page number and embedding the next iframe until the page total is reached.
There could be memory issues with large LO's and being able to display
nested pages like all quiz questions would depend on the ability to loop
through those in a similar way to how the deep linking to page numbers
works. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution longer term but this seemed
like an easy short term solution to meet some needs. 

Last time I checked it looked like 10 Sept was the most favoured date for
the online meeting but I'm sure Julian will confirm that in due course.

Cheers
Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 01 September 2014 11:19
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: printing and possibly pdf generation test

You must really like it John... I got your message 3 times :-)

I like it too. Very much! If we can also print all the pages of the quiz
with feedback, then I think we've accomplished a lot!

There still are some tricky things to solve, like what do we do with
scrolled text etc., but I propose we'll tackle those when we get there.

Smith, John schreef op 1-9-2014 11:45:
> Wow, that is impressive Ron, I like it!! Simple but effective...
>
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[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
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> Sent: 01 September 2014 10:38
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] printing and possibly pdf generation test
>
> Hi all
> I decided it was best to start a separate thread about this but some of it
overlaps with the discussions about the new template Fay has been working
on.
>
> Fay, Julian and I had a quick chat via Skype on 13th August mostly about
the new template Fay is working on but a few other ideas too. Some of that
overlapped with things I'd been thinking about and testing like the ability
to override the authors choice of display size e.g. forcing full screen in
embed code via paramaters and also hiding footer, header or both. This then
links in with an idea I had about a short term printing solution - as you
know printing is something that gets asked about quite regularly. Fay very
quickly came up with a solution for the override and hiding of footer/header
and I've been testing a print solution which takes advantage of that and
could also be used as part of the solution for creating a pdf from an LO
too.
>
> So here's some tests/examples/further explanation:
>
> http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/print.htm use the example or
paste in a link to your own public LO
>
> The hide footer options etc will work with my example but not your own
unless you have the tweaked xenith.js installed.
>
> As well as being able to print the resulting page if you have a print to
pdf driver installed you can use that page to create a pdf too.
>
> As you can see all this is doing is looping through the page numbers
submitted via the form and displaying each on a single scrolling page. This
also means that each page interaction could be completed before printing if
that's what's required. Obviously there are limitations like video or if tab
nav or scrolling pages are included and will only work with the XOT not
bootstrap template but it could still be quite useful I think. Comments? Is
it worth including this as an initial printing solution? Or is a better
solution easily possible?
>
> There are many benefits of the new override parameters not least of which
is the ability to embed LO's in a bootstrap page with a percentage width
whilst still being able to leave the LO at default 800px width and 600px
height as an author for nomal viewing. That combined with the ability to
hide header and footer means easy embedding of LO's in other LO's! Thanks to
Fay this is how all this works:
>
> Optional parameters
> &display= fixed|full|600,400
> &hide=top|bottom|both|none
> Examples:
> Default 800 x 600 view regardless of settings by author:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=fi
xed
> Fill window regardless of settings by author:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=fu
ll
> Fixed dimensions regardless of settings by author:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=60
0,600
> Hide header and footer:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=fi
xed&hide=both
> Hide footer only:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=fi
xed&hide=bottom
> Hide header only:
>
http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&display=fi
xed&hide=top
>
> Example embed code overriding LO display settings and hiding header and
footer:
> <iframe
src="http://training.mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=96&displ
ay=full&hide=both" width="100%" height="665" frameborder="0"
style="float:left; position:relative; top:0px; left:0px;
z-index:0;"></iframe>
>
> Not looking for lengthy discussion here - we can save that for the the
forthcoming online meeting but thanks to Fay lots of possibilities and
benefits resulting from a short online discussion!
>
> Cheers
> Ron
>
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