[LON-CAPA-users] Exporting syllabus

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Guy,

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> 
>>A student contacted me to get my syllabus for my stat lon-capa course,
>>and I realized that this is not straightforward. My syllabus is a basic
>>html text file in lon-capa with no fancy symbols in it.
> 
> 
> How did it get into to Lon-CAPA, through CSTR, or was it Uploaded into
> the course through DOCS?
> 

I think though CSTR, but it's a while ago.

> 
>>(1) use "Save As" in the browser and save it as an html file, then email
>>that as an attachment to the student. Or,
>>
>>(2) export it as a pdf file and attach it to an email
>>
>>None of the options are great. In case (1), the "Post Discussion" links
>>are included, as well as the navigation buttons at the top (if I use the
>>no-remote mode).
> 
> 
> Aye.
> 
> 
>>case (2) is even worse. The pdf export of the file
>>looks very bad. Much worse than pdf files created by a tool like
>>PDFCreator. (2) is not really an option.
> 
> 
> Strange, I am assuming by PDF export you are doing a 'PRT' of the file
> and then trying to send that on.

Yes, this is what I'm doing, and the pdf output doesn't look good.

Lars.