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New Rise Feature: Export as PDF
Today we released a new feature in Rise that I think you’ll appreciate—especially those of you who work in highly regulated industries! Now you can export your Rise courses as PDF files for easy printing and meeting regulatory requirements.
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- ElizabethCol338Community Member
Greetings, everyone. Hope that someone can assist... When I export to PDF, I'm just getting a single blank page. None of the content that I've built.
When I published the sample course (Wellness, I believe), I have success, but not with the courses I've built.
Thoughts on where I might be off the rails?
Many thanks in advance.
Hi Elizabeth,
I'm so sorry you ran into this roadblock! Gren shared with you that we're working out an issue with publishing Rise courses to PDF when the course contains a process block. I know this has caused a major hurdle for you, and we're committed to keeping you posted on our progress. As soon as this is fixed, we'll let you know!
Hi Elizabeth,
This is fixed up and you should now be able to export for PDF courses that include a Process Block. Please let us know if you need anything else!
- BenRodriguez-33Community Member
Hi All,
This is a great feature.
Are there any guidelines on how to format the rise course if you want to export it as a PDF? For example, If we want to export to PDF but want particular blocks to stick together on a page, or not have a single block divided across two pages?Thanks,
Ben
- LaVonBowman-ef6Community Member
Leslie, I am creating a course in Rise and the SMEs want pdf versions available for all the students. I created them and I used Adobe Acrobat DC. I set my preferences in Acrobat to display at 150%. I have 7 courses and I have inconsistent fonts in all the pdf files even though I have set all the fonts and style in Rise to be identical. Why are they displaying differently and is there something else I can do either in Rise or Acrobat to solve this issue? Some are perfect, some are very difficult to read (very small). Problem is the user will print these out not always use the digital version. That is where the real issue is because if the viewed them on the computer they can always zoom in. That is not possible, of course, with a printed version. Have they found a solution to this problem yet? the last posting I see on Articulate was a year ago. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hi LaVon,
I’m sorry that you’re having some trouble here.
The quickest way to resolve this issue is to have our Support Team take a look. You can submit a case here.
In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
- LaVonBowman-ef6Community Member
Hi Allison,
Thanks for your response. I moved the files. The path was too long. Now it is working just fine. LaVon
- DJIrvinCommunity Member
Hi - I love that a PDF can be created from a Rise course!
For my next project I am considering Rise to create an interactive workbook.
One that could print a clean PDF workbook which learners use as a hard copy, but also an online workbook. Ideally I would like the online workbook allow the learner to take onlines notes, then being able to print it with what they have written.
Is this possible with Rise or am I way off base? If not, any other suggestions?
Thank you!
Hi there, DJ! You could export the course as a PDF, and then use an attachment block from your media blocks library to include the PDF for learners to download. I hope that starts you in the right direction!
- BenRodriguez-33Community Member
Hi, Does anyone have guidelines to ensure that the Rise course exports to a PDF with clean page breaks?
Hi there, Ben. Currently, the PDF is perfect for meeting compliance requirements or having a quick and easy print-off of your course. We don't have immediate plans to customize how the PDF output displays, but we'll let you know if that changes.
If anyone in the community has block combination ideas with PDF formatting in mind, feel free to share!
- JoelBarricklowCommunity Member
HI Crystal,
Someone mentioned this above, but the PDF export feature isn't yet perfect. A major hurdle we run into on the compliance side is that Rise does not export all text elements of the course. Many in-built labels and buttons (eg, navigation elements and scores in assessment sections, lesson navigation buttons) don't export. Would love for this to be updated.
Thanks,
Curtis
- LibbyDoran-650dCommunity Member
The only other way is installing a full page screenshot tool - but the quality might be a little pixelated. I use 'full page screen capture' chrome extension
- OwenHoltSuper Hero
I am running in to this exact issue. It would be amazing if there were an interactive PDF Preview were you could mark page breaks and have the output update dynamically. (i.e. I mark a break, content adjusts for the break, and I scroll down to see where the next forced break might be needed.)
- TerryTaylorCommunity Member
Thank you! So helpfu!
- JamesPerryCommunity Member
I'm so glad this feature exists, but I'd like to request a couple of tweaks!
1. I'm finding that when I publish my Rise courses as PDF files, there's no indication on any of my knowledge check or quiz questions (multiple choice or multiple response) as to which answers are correct/incorrect, and I'm having to modify the PDF file manually to indicate these. It would be most helpful if the correct answers were checked2. With the courses I'm building these days, I'm adding some Storyline elements. The Storyline files contain multiple layers. In the PDF export from Rise, I'm only seeing the main layer / default view of the Storyline elements. Any way to make this so that it published all layers as separate images? I'm guessing that's probably not possible but thought I'd ask anyway.
Thanks!