Working on a plugin to merge all pdf files in a course

Re: Working on a plugin to merge all pdf files in a course

by Kashmira Nagwekar -
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Hey all,
    Here is a new patch file with some additions.
(The patch requires PDFtk and LaTeX.)

After applying this patch to moodle:
 - Go to a particular course
 - Click on settings icon
 - A link saying "Merge PDF files" will appear in the course settings (drop-down menu) list.
 - Then, you get a page listing all the pdf files in that particular course.
 - At the end of this page, you get a button labeled "Merge pdf files".
 - On clicking the button, the user will get a merged document of all the course files listed on that page.

In future, I intend to add functionality wherein a user will be able to - 
 - shufffle the listed pdf files
 - select only a few/all pdf files

Through this feature, now users will be able to merge pdf files in a particular course from within moodle itself.

Comments and suggestions are welcome!
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Re: Working on a plugin to merge all pdf files in a course

by Mihir J -

Hi

Sorry, which directory should I put this file to test please

thanks!

Mihir

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Re: Working on a plugin to merge all pdf files in a course

by Kashmira Nagwekar -

Hi Mihir,

I have recently submitted an initial version of this plugin in Moodle plugins Directory for approval process. I would suggest to either download it from there or get it from github repo given below :

Moodle Plugins directory : https://moodle.org/plugins/report_mergefiles

Github URL : https://github.com/Kashmira9890/moodle-report_mergefiles

The 'mergefiles' folder is to be put into 'moodle/report' directory.

Also, there is a patch file given inside the plugin folder, which needs to be applied.

Let me know your remarks/suggestions about this plugin.

Thanks,

Kashmira.

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