[Xerte] RE: Xerte University of Liverpool

[Peter Snowball]

Print2flash around $us90 works well using the Flashpaper Page template 
wizard. We tried to by flashpaper but it was not supported on vista win 
7 and we could not find a way to buy it from adobe.

Peter Snowball
Department of economic development TAS

Adam Read wrote:
>
> Hi Paul
>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> Regarding PDFs – I don’t think there is a way. We’ve resorted to 
> converting them to Macromedia/Adobe FlashPaper (swf) and then 
> embedding like in this RLO – 
> http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/rlo/play.php?template_id=86 works 
> quite well but the software isn’t free.
>
> I’m sure the more experienced gurus might have another solution.
>
> Adam
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Catherall, Paul
> *Sent:* 07 May 2010 09:37
> *To:* 'xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Xerte University of Liverpool
>
> Hi
>
> (I’ve been trying to post to list for a while but hopefully this one 
> will work..)
>
> I’d just like to introduce myself to the list, I’m based at University 
> of Liverpool supporting online distance learners for library/ IT 
> support and also act as a learning technologist for the library staff 
> here.
>
> I’ve just installed Xerte toolkits for initial use by staff and expect 
> us to be using this more for the University, we also hope the central 
> IT department will run Xerte on a larger scale.
>
> I have a few small questions about Xerte Toolkits which I was 
> wondering the list might be able to help out:
>
> · There doesn’t seem to be any way to upload/ display PDFs or other 
> files, due to the rationale for using Flash, does anyone know an easy 
> way to enable a basic file upload option or add in a new page wizard 
> for a generic file upload/ display?
>
> · I’ve noticed Xerte has some problems resizing SWFs, such as those 
> made with Ispring or JING when displayed, I’m guessing it’s simply not 
> applying a relative dimension to the Flash object or applying a fixed 
> size appropriate to the ‘screen size’ selected by the user. I was 
> wondering if there are any fixes for this about.. I’ve seen mention of 
> people setting video dimensions but can’t see how this is applied in 
> Toolkits.
>
> We’ll probably be presenting what we do with Xerte Toolkits at a 
> conference in Liverpool in June, so I’ll make sure any demos can go 
> online to share with the list.
>
> thanks
>
> Paul
>
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