[Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Various / PDF resources in Moodle

[Martin Langhoff]

David -

good point. No direct control in that case -- I can probably switch
the behaviour there with a small fix to Moodle.



m

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:03 AM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> I have verified this works for links to specific files. Can we also force
> download for site or course files that have been uploaded into directories,
> and are then viewed from "Display a Directory" ?
>
> David Leeming
> Solomon Islands Rural Link
> http://www.leeming-consulting.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langhoff at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 28 December 2009 10:54 p.m.
> To: David Leeming
> Cc: server-devel at lists.laptop.org; Sugar-dev
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Various / PDF resources in Moodle
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> (A) PDFs uploaded to Moodle folders always open in the Rainbow-Daemon
>>> dialogue when you left click on the links. If you go to hyperlinks on
> HTML
>>> pages either in my local public folders or out on the net, a PDF file
> always
>>> opens in the Browse version of PDF reader when you left click on it. In
> all
>>> my tests it is fully reproducable using both B4 and C1s. I would prefer
> them
>>> to open in Read activity, which has but it's not a huge problem, they are
>>> very similar. One can also Keep and then open from the Journal. But why
> the
>>> rainbow-daemon window?
>>
>> Ok, so you are saying that a PDF hosted elsewhere opens in the
>> in-browser PDF reader, but a Moodle-hosted one doesn't?
>>
>> I will explore that -- can you file a bug (as discussed) with some
>> example PDFs you find that work correctly?
>
> Explored and diagnosed. When in Moodle you say "add a resource -> link
> to a file or website", and then you pick a PDF, you will see a
> "force-download" option, that defaults to off.
>
>  - Keep it off, and you will see the PDF "inline" ;-)
>
>  - Turn it on and it will force a download to the Journal.
>
> it'd be nice to have the options there simplified and better labelled.
>
>
>
> m
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