[Xerte] Re: Toolkits - printing a certificate - how to?

[Paul Swanson]

Yeah, the problem with this approach is that it doesn't scale to fit the
page. My course is 800X600, and it takes up maybe a sixth of the page,
just as you experienced. And I get either grey or my stage color (I have
a black & white printer, so I can't tell) background on about 2/3 of the
page. Using printJob, as Julian mentioned, will allow you to scale the
output to fit the page better, but it will affect the quality of the
output.

 

I don't actually use printAsBitmapNum for printing certificates, I pass
variables to a PHP script that creates a PDF. I suggested this method as
a quick and dirty way of getting content to print easily.

 

If you have PHP, you can download a free library that will create PDFs.
It's called FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/). I have a script I can send you
to use as a starting point, if you want to go that route.

 

Paul

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 5:03 PM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Toolkits - printing a certificate - how to?

 

Hello Paul:

 

Thanks for this cert print suggestion, I have the print basically
working, but when it prints the top half of the 8.5 X 11 paper is solid
dark grey with the xerte page sitting in the upper left corner, about
1/6th of page size.

 

I don't understand the AS 'bframe' bounding box concept.... Do you know
if there is a way I can make the xerte page print to the full 8.5 inch
on the page (or at least larger than it is now?).

 

Thanks

RonM2

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:00 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Toolkits - printing a certificate - how to?

 

One thing you could do is create a certificate on a page in Xerte, and
include a button or other interaction (such as an Event or timed
response) to print it. Attach a script icon with printAsBitmapNum(0,
"bframe"); to the print button. There are other print options, but
printAsBitmapNum worked best for my Desktop Xerte apps. I use that to
allow students to print whatever page they are on. If you aren't
including anything with alpha transparency, print() might work better
than printAsBitmap() or priintAsBitmapNum().

 

Paul

 

 

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