"- new Activities may include with the m the ability to turn their own "document" files into a PDF, so at activity-install time, you may want to poke the activity metadata to extend the list of mimetypes handled. " " - cups has lots of overhead and complication, if you find a simpler way to print to PDF, it will be a big win" I have a fix for Write which exports to pdf, but to implement the lib abiword api in each and every activity is really a pain - more for the activity authors. Luke was kind enough to check an installation of complete cups on the XO. It took a space of 18 mb including cache space, so an installation of cups-pdf alone (which is 1.3 mb installation space along with dependencies will be around 8 mb)will do. What cups-pdf does is it has the ability to print a pdf from any mime type associated with cups mime.types. As opposed to what the abiword api does (draw the screen to graphic objects and export to pdf) . So this is really an asset! Of course, the activities would definitely have to have their mime types associated in some .info file, I will just look it up. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/3/25 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <<a href="mailto:vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com">vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="im">> So, here is an almost finished version of my Print Proposal minus the second > community member remarks. ( cc Martin Langhoff please give me your views on > this if possible) > > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support</a> </div>Looks good! A couple of notes... On the XO side, - - cups has lots of overhead and complication, if you find a simpler way to print to PDF, it will be a big win - once you have a Journal-based "PDF print queue", it will be easy to push that into moodle or into other systems. I really like that. On the XS side: - Moodle + cups makes lots of sense. - Happy to help design the moodle integration and user workflow. - Good call on the quotas and teacher control. cheers, m -- <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> </blockquote></div>