Beautiful! Thank you! Doug
-sent from mobile- > On Mar 8, 2014, at 1:25 PM, "Stuart Raeburn" <raeb...@msu.edu> wrote: > > Doug, > >> ... The downside of this approach is that the Composite Page automatically >> adds a lot of verbiage and warnings to a download file such as the PDF. > > I have modified lonpage.pm (rev. 1.104) so that the text: > > "It is recommended that you use an up-to-date virus scanner before handling > this file." > > is not shown for a link in a Composite page if the file linked to is a pdf. > lonpage.pm rev. 1.104 will be included in the forthcoming 2.11.0. > > Stuart Raeburn > LON-CAPA Academic Consortium > > > Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>: > >> Hey All, >> >> I'm finally getting around to trying to address the problem iPad and other >> iOS users have accessing PDFs embedded in a frame on a web page -- so for >> example any PDF uploaded by an instructor into a folder in Lon-Capa. You've >> probably come across this -- the iOS Safari somehow does not allot the >> correct size frame to the PDF (I think is the root issue), 1-finger >> scrolling moves the browser around and 2-finger scrolling scrolls the page >> up and down -- but NOT the PDF inside the frame, so all the student can see >> of a pdf is what appears in the frame when it initially loads. >> >> A couple of solutions I've come up with to address this: >> >> 1. Use a Composite Page rather than a folder -- uploading PDFs to a >> Composite Page provides links directly to the PDF so that it opens in the >> full browser window rather than being embedded in the Lon-Capa framework >> and from there iOS users can scroll up and down or if they prefer open it >> in a PDF app on their device for annotation. The downside of this approach >> is that the Composite Page automatically adds a lot of verbiage and >> warnings to a download file such as the PDF so, for example, when adding a >> PDF entitled "Lecture 01" to the Composite page, I end up with all this: >> [cid:0ACFF5EA-5B62-444F-913F-7653280A7D7F] >> >> 2. It IS possible to determine the path to a file such as a PDF uploaded >> directly into a course site (as opposed to authoring space) and from there >> to create your own HTML page with links directly to the PDFs to accomplish >> the same as in approach 1 but with full control over the look of the page >> linking to them. The downside with this approach is that so far the only >> way I've found to find the path to the PDFs uploaded to the course is to >> upload them to a hidden folder then click on each and look at the code for >> the page they are embedded in to find the path direct to the file itself. >> That's not a huge deal but ideally I'm looking for a solution the >> instructors themselves will be responsible for once they learn how to do >> it, and this seems like too much overhead for many of them. >> >> So I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on either or both of these >> approaches, OR if you've solved this problem in some other way, I'll be >> happy to hear about that as well. Again, I'm looking for ways that >> instructors developing their course sites can make their PDFs available to >> students in such a way that they can access them and even make optimum use >> of them on mobile devices (should note here that while I know this is an >> issue on iOS devices, I've tested also on a Motorola Zoom I have access to >> and the pdf does not open in the Lon-Capa frame at all, but does work as a >> Composite page. I'm sure the version of Android on the Zoom is outdated, >> but do not have access to newer Android devices right now for testing). >> >> Thanks as always for input and guidance! >> >> Doug >> >> Douglas Mills >> Director of Instructional Technologies >> Department of Chemistry >> University of Illinois >> dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu> >> (217) 244-5739 > > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
