PDF Annotation

PDF Annotation

by John Banner -
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Does anybody know if landscape PDF documents work inside the editor for Moodle 2.7? We are planning on upgrading to Moodle 2.6 since it is a little more mature than 2.7 but the PDF annotation does not work in Moodle 2.6. If it works in 2.7 then we might just take a leap of faith and upgrade to 2.7.

Tracker:

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43462

Just wondering, would anybody know of a hack to get it working in 2.6? The bug was filed back in Dec 2013 and there has been little to no activity. Over 90% of our students worksheets are in landscape because of the amount of tables/columns that are present and will not fit in portrait mode.

We would rather use the built-in editor because if not we would have to rely on the 3rd party PDF plugin that does work with landscape documents but the maintainer has stated that he does not plan on developing it any further.

Thanks,

John

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Re: PDF Annotation

by Helen Foster -
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Hi John,

I don't know off-hand whether landscape PDF documents work in Moodle 2.7, however why not try on the School demo site. You can log in as a student and upload a landscape PDF to http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/assign/view.php?id=573 then log out and log in again as a teacher to check it out. Please let us know how you get on!

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Re: PDF Annotation

by John Banner -

I was hoping that it would work. I submitted a simple pdf 11 x 8.5 with the word start on one side and end on the other side and the words end does not appear in the editor. It only renders in portrait mode still.

The bug https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43462 should be updated so that it is known to affect Version 2.7 as well.

Thanks for linking the demo site so that I could try it and I hope that it will get fixed.

John


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