[Sugar-devel] Print Support (journal vs activity)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 19:02, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
> It's entirely unclear what this project has morphed to.  Tomeu, what use is
> uploading arbitrary journal entries to Moodle?

Because the chances that the needed filter to convert that file to a
printable format is in the server are bigger than being in every
machine, for some deployments.

> I thought creating pdf
> output in sugar and enabling uploading of the pdf to Moodle was the point of
> this project.  That is useful in two ways.  First, it is a path to
> assignment turn-in or printing either through Moodle or by other transports
> to a system configured to print pdfs.  It also allows a student to review
> the printer-ready output to decide if it is worth getting hard copy.

Sure, I though I had made clear than printing to PDF in Sugar has
important use cases.

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:29, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> > Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> >> Printing is not limited to uploading files to moodle, we provide both
>> >> local and server printing and users will use whatever works in their
>> >> environment.
>> >
>> > I think this is too much for one Summer of Code project.  That's why I
>> > have been recommending that we forget about local printing for now.
>>
>> I would actually be happy if we just implemented sending journal
>> entries to the print queue and the moodle module. Print to pdf has
>> several important use cases and I would like to see it implemented for
>> 0.86 for at least Write and Browse, but I don't think it needs to be
>> part of this GSoC.
>>
>> > Anyway, on a purely technical level I think we have reached agreement.
>> >  (I
>> > do wonder whether the Moodle print queue should also support acting as a
>> > standard print server, so that standard desktops can print into the
>> > Moodle
>> > approval queue, but that's a detail.)
>>
>> Yeah, I would prefer if we use simple file upload at first because it
>> works already.
>>
>> There's lots of fun stuff to do in this area, but what gives most
>> value to the user is quite straightforward. We should aim to leave the
>> complicated stuff for the end, as extras, and focus on delivering what
>> matters most first
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > - --Ben
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