[LON-CAPA-users] file size limit - anonymous tests

[Nathan Schoenack]

Felicia,

I didn't know what to make of that last option.  I'll give it a  
shot.  Thanks!

-Nathan

On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Felicia Berryman wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> I think this falls under user :)
>
> On the last screen of the print helper all the way on the bottom,  
> there is an option to specify how many exams to print at once.  The  
> default is all.  You can put in 100 if you want.  Here at MSU, some  
> instructors put in 1.  Then each exam is in its own PDF file.  LON- 
> CAPA automatically generates a zip file of all the exams when there  
> are alot of them like this.  The instructors then just have to send  
> over the zip file to MSU Print services and they print out the  
> exams and staple them.
>
> Felicia
>
>
> Nathan Schoenack wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this is a "users" or 'admin' question:
>>
>> I'm trying to print 300 anonymous, CODEd tests for a class, but  
>> when  it comes out there's only 107 versions and that's the end of  
>> the  document.  I was just looking in the /home/httpd/prtspool and  
>> saw   that the size of the file from a previous attempt is that  
>> magical  2147483647 byte size.  Is this an unavoidable limitation  
>> of printing  that many tests?  Is there a workaround?
>>
>> I notice I can request 300 codes and then only print a certain  
>> number  of them.  Is there anyway to produce 300 test codes, then  
>> print them  100 at a time without duplicating codes.
>>
>> I'm guessing that the easiest workaround would be using just 20   
>> individual codes and then distributing that to the 300 students.
>>
>> Nathan Schoenack
>> IT Research Support Specialist
>> NDSU Physics
>> (701) 231-7047
>> nathan.schoenack@ndsu.edu
>>
>>
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Nathan Schoenack
IT Research Support Specialist
NDSU Physics
(701) 231-7047
nathan.schoenack@ndsu.edu