[LON-CAPA-dev] New libraries, etc - need to install for CVS Head

[Mark Lucas]

Gerd,

Out of curiosity, what does this buy us pedagogically?

Does this allow you to create a pdf form that students can fill in
remotely? Would this be used on tests? Assignments?

Just curious from an educator point of view.

Mark


On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:36 -0400, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is forwarded on behalf of Thomas Onken:
> 
> Enable PDF-Forms in LON-CAPA
> 
> First you need to install the AcroTeX-education bundle from ctan.
> 
> Get the package and unzip it:
> 
>      [root@loncapa ]# wget http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/acrotex.zip
>      [root@loncapa ]# unzip acrotex.zip
> 
> go into the acrotex-folder and install
> 
>      [root@loncapa ]# cd acrotex
>      [root@loncapa acrotex]# latex acrotex.ins
> 
> Now move the folder acrotex file into the latex path. You can easly  
> find it by searching for "cite.sty" or some other tex-packages.
> 
>      [root@loncapa /]# locate cite.sty
>      /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/cite.sty
>      /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/drftcite.sty
>      /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/overcite.sty
>      On CentOS5 the latex path is: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
> 
>      [root@loncapa acrotex]# cd ..
>      [root@loncapa ]# mv acrotex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
> 
> Remove the acrotex.zip
> 
>      [root@loncapa]# rm acrotex.zip
> 
> After that you must rehash tex:
> 
>      [root@loncapa ]# texhash
> 
> Now you are able to print PDF with Forms (Radiobutton-, Comboboxes-,  
> Textfield based problems).
> 
> The second thing to do is to enable the Upload-script lonpdfupload.pm.  
> Before you can use it you have to install CAM::PDF for perl. It is  
> available on CPAN so you can use the perl –MCPAN -eshell.
> 
>      [root@loncapa ~]# perl -MCPAN -eshell
> 
>      cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
>      ReadLine support enabled
> 
>      cpan>install CAM::PDF
>      (…follow installation and also install the dependencies)
>      cpan>exit
> 
> Next you need to copy the upload-script from CVS to the LON-CAPA  
> Apache folder.
> 
>      [root@loncapa ~]# cp [your-cvs-folder]/loncom/interface/ 
> lonpdfupload.pm /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/
> 
> Now restart httpd:
>      [root@loncapa ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
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