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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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Great addition. However, when I exported my course to PDF, the the video images are not rendering as they do in the Rise course. Please see example. Is this possibly because we are using private Vimeo links, rather than public links, to the videos?
Hi, Rich. Embedded web content doesn't always render as expected when converting it to print.
If having meaningful placeholder images for the blocks with web content is important for the PDF viewers, could you duplicate your course to create a PDF-friendly version? You could replace the embed blocks with image blocks for context of the web video content.
Thanks, Crystal.
We could take Snagit images of the videos as they display in Rise, with their correct embedded titles, then create a PDF-friendly version of the course that uses these Snagit images for the image blocks. Labor-intensive, but it would work.
We could create a version with text blocks above the video blocks with the correct video titles, then use the generic video thumbnails of the speakers in new image blocks to replace the video blocks. Not an exact replica of the course, but less work, and probably acceptable to users.
It sounds like a solution to the problem of rendering embedded web content is unlikely, correct?
Hi Rich,
We also use Vimeo videos and the same thing happens to us.
I'm not sure if private or public makes any difference.
If you have Acrobat DC just open pdf in that and Export to Word.
Having exported Rise PDF files to Word many times using Acrobat DC, the resulting Word document is really a mess and very difficult to work with.
There is a huge amount of manual cleanup and formatting to be done before you end up with a usable document.
Yikes, of course lol... TY Karl. I asked Alyssa too but, easy way to convert XLIFF to Word or would the result still be the messy word file you get going from pdf to word?
Thanks for reaching out, Chris!
Rise 360 does not have a publish/export to Word feature like Storyline does. There is an export for Translation feature, but the file output is XLIFF, not Word. You'll need a translation tool to read the XLIFF file.
Thank you - know of an easy way to covert XLIFF to Word? Trying to easily share course text.
And... any publish (export) to Word for Rise?
Related Q: Is there an export/import feature for translation like SL360? (If so peeps, don't forget Translation export is another means of Word output)
Owen, there is no solution to an image breaking over the bottom and top of pages.
I really wish there was a way to force clean breaks, as we get a lot of complaints about this issue.
We've tried editing these PDFs to fix this and other issues, but it's an impossible task.
I haven't scrolled through this whole thread (TLDNR), but, how do you address the issue of pages breaking an image across 2 pages?
I need clean breaks!I appreciate your feedback, James!
Right now, the PDF export will not show correct/incorrect answers on knowledge check or quiz questions.
Also, I'd recommend publishing the Storyline 360 content to Word to reveal all the layers within the Storyline block.
James, regarding your point 1, our organization specifically does NOT want to show which answers are correct/incorrect.
What is needed is an option that allows the developer to choose if the answers should be included or not.
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!
Thank you! So helpfu!
