case 'document':
$title = $item['title'] . '.rtf';
$exportType = 'application/rtf';
break;
Change Code To:
case 'document':
$title = $item['title'] . '.pdf';
$exportType = 'application/pdf';
break;
Here's an interesting tracker issue: MDL-33483
If you change rtf to pdf in that code, it works as expected. That said, please see this post about trouble once the Google generated PDF loads into the assignment annotation plugin. My experience documented there was with Moodle 2.4. I just upgraded to the latest 2.6 yesterday, but have not tried out the Google PDF in the annotation screen.
Edit - I just tried the hack on 2.6, and could not get it to return a PDF. I wonder if there is more to it than with 2.4.
Ah thanks! Yes there is more code that needs to be changed, it is in the tracker linked by Mary
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-33483
I am going to change those as well as the code I stated above and see how it goes,
Thanks!
John
So I copied the repository and created a new repository plugin for this using the above code changes and it works as expected. The gdoc is imported into Moodle as a PDF!
The only issue I have with it is that since the Document is Landscape the Moodle PDF annotation is displaying the PDF in portrait mode thus cutting off half of the document.
How can it be set so that the PDF annotation properly detects the page size? Or how can we add scrollbars to the PDF editor? Maybe zooming?
As for Rob, I read your posts and I am not sure why your text ends up being so small. When I tested it out the generated PDF looks exactly like it should.
Thanks,
John
I installed this plugin set,
https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=29
And it correctly identifies landscape vs portrait so it is working using that plugin! This is great!
Should a bug be filed for the built in PDF editor or has one already been filed for landscape documents?
Thanks,
John
Tracker issue is already there: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43462
Please note that I do not intend to keep maintaining my PDF annotation plugin in the long term, now that the functionality from it has been integrated into Moodle core. There is (currently) no migration path for assignments created using my version, to the core version (but this does not stop you creating new assignments in the core version, at a later date).
Hi Davo,
Forgive a silly questions, but where do we find the core version? I recently upgraded from the 2.4 branch to 2.6.4. I saw the PDF assign type referenced during the upgrade, but I don't see settings for it when creating an assignment.
There are no settings for it (except for at the system level, to set it up in the first place) - just get a student to upload a PDF and 'launch pdf annotation' appears when grading it.
Demo of where to look here:
Thank you to both Davo and Mary. On one site, I have installed the plugin along side the new core function. If I remove the plugin, will it cause any loss of functionality with existing assignments?
Thank you for the feedback John. It has been months since I posted about the PDF size. Maybe something has changed on the Google side. I will test further.
