[LON-CAPA-users] file size limit - anonymous tests
Nathan Schoenack
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:54:42 -0600
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