Not only printing.<br>Still in places were there are connectivity, many times is so bad, than having<br>the possibility of enable anything similar to offline navigation is great.<br>And many kids do not have connectivity in their houses too.<br>
<br>Gonzalo<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sridhar@laptop.org.au">sridhar@laptop.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
We get asked about printing all the time. While I understand why this<br>
is a deliberate omission in Sugar, it can be nonetheless annoying for<br>
teachers.<br>
<br>
This approach seems to be a good compromise.<br>
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Sridhar<br>
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<br>
On 30 May 2011 00:04, Sascha Silbe <<a href="mailto:silbe@activitycentral.com">silbe@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Requests for print functionality in Sugar have been voiced repeatedly,<br>
> including during EduJam 2011. Adding support to Browse for exporting the<br>
> currently loaded document as PDF is a major step in that direction since<br>
> Browse can render (and thus export as PDF) a variety of file formats,<br>
> including HTML, bitmap graphics (PNG, JPEG) and SVG.<br>
><br>
> The Portable Document Format (PDF) is designed to preserve the layout of the<br>
> document and thus is poorly suited for applications like "offline" reading of<br>
> web pages (there is no re-flowing to suit the dimensions of the screen). For<br>
> these tasks there are better solutions like wwwoffle [1], Webified [2] or<br>
> creating a derivative of the Help activity [3].<br>
><br>
> Direct print support has been deliberately omitted. Anything that gets<br>
> exported from the learners system should be recorded and preserved in the<br>
> Journal. Exporting PDFs from individual activities to the Journal and<br>
> implementing print support in a single, specially designed activity that<br>
> operates on the PDFs not only ensures that all exports are recorded in<br>
> the exact form they left the computer, but also relieves activity authors<br>
> from the need to provide print support in their activity. The user won't get<br>
> confused by multiple different ways to configure printing from within the<br>
> various activities.<br>
><br>
> Because PDF is a standard interchange format, this also enables more (and<br>
> better!) ways of sharing documents (while preserving their exact form) than<br>
> printing.<br>
><br>
> Sascha Silbe (2):<br>
> Generalise GetSourceListener to SaveListener<br>
> Add support for exporting ("printing") to PDF<br>
><br>
> browser.py | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----<br>
> webtoolbar.py | 10 ++++++<br>
> 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/" target="_blank">http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified</a><br>
> [3] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051</a><br>
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> 1.7.2.5<br>
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