- new Activities may include with the m the ability to turn their own
document files into a PDF, so at activity-install time, you may want
to poke the activity metadata to extend the list of mimetypes handled.
- cups has lots of overhead and complication, if you find a simpler
way to print to PDF, it will be a big win
I have a fix for Write which exports to pdf, but to implement the lib
abiword api in each and every activity is really a pain - more for the
activity authors.
Luke was kind enough to check an installation of complete cups on the XO. It
took a space of 18 mb including cache space, so an installation of cups-pdf
alone (which is 1.3 mb installation space along with dependencies will be
around 8 mb)will do.
What cups-pdf does is it has the ability to print a pdf from any mime type
associated with cups mime.types. As opposed to what the abiword api does
(draw the screen to graphic objects and export to pdf) . So this is really
an asset!
Of course, the activities would definitely have to have their mime types
associated in some .info file, I will just look it up.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/3/25 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com:
So, here is an almost finished version of my Print Proposal minus the
second
community member remarks. ( cc Martin Langhoff please give me your views
on
this if possible)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support
Looks good! A couple of notes...
On the XO side,
-
- cups has lots of overhead and complication, if you find a simpler
way to print to PDF, it will be a big win
- once you have a Journal-based PDF print queue, it will be easy to
push that into moodle or into other systems. I really like that.
On the XS side:
- Moodle + cups makes lots of sense.
- Happy to help design the moodle integration and user workflow.
- Good call on the quotas and teacher control.
cheers,
m
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