New Rise Feature: Export as PDF

Hi Irina,

I guess you found out about the pdfs on your own :) I just responded to your post here.

Items splitting across pages is an issue we are aware of. You may be able to correct some formatting issues via Acrobat Pro if needed.

This is an awesome feature! However when I export to PDF I see  that Rise can break one image and slicing it, so that it partially slips to the next page. Same with some interactive elements. Would that be possible during the export to prevent this slicing? Thank you!

Andrew's comment about page breaks is my biggest concern. I've got a tabbed activity in my course and it's split across two pages in the PDF. Tabs are at the bottom of one page, and content nested beneath the tab is on the next. Additionally, the screen shot of the first slide of my Storyline block is cut in half, split across the page break. Would love to see options to set page breaks or for the export tool to anticipate items that should not be split apart.

Thanks!

Thanks, Andrew for breaking down those additional components that would be crucial for you! It will help our team with continued planning and development on additional aspects of this feature - so I appreciate the honesty.

We'll keep you posted here as those parts roll out to Rise, but I don't yet have an ETA to share.  

I'm so glad this feature was added at last!  I have one client who didn't want any more courses built in Rise until this feature was available, for compliance reasons.  Sorry I'm late to the game, but thanks for making this a priority!  However...

In trying a couple of PDFs, and reading this thread, I agree with some suggestions, and have other comments to add:

• For a tabbed interaction, because you're grabbing a screen cap of the tabs, if there are more tabs than can be shown without clicking the right arrow, then the additional tabs are of course simply cut off.  The actual body text content on the tab is included in the PDF, but not seeing the appropriately-titled tab header with it is problematic.
• Similarly, because you're currently using screencaps for flash cards, if the text on the card is longer, it fades away into nothingness--which is a real issue for a compliance course.  I'm hoping you are working on a way to grab the actual text from these items, so none of the course content is lost?
• Page breaks are sometimes awkward.  Not the end of the world.  But if you can add a "no widow/orphan" aspect, that would be great.
• As others have noted, being able to choose whether or not to include question feedback would be very useful.  Sometimes a client wants everything verbatim for compliance reasons; other times for accessibility reasons they want to supply the basic content as the learner would experience it online, but with the questions left unanswered (to prevent a learner from circulating the PDF as an "answer key.")

Thanks again for adding this essential feature (along with other great Rise enhancement), but I do hope you are committed to improving this PDF export as soon as possible?  From a compliance perspective, either every word of the course is present in the PDF, or it's not.  If it's not, it will not satisfy most clients' compliance requirements.

Thanks for letting us know that this would be helpful for you as well Matt. You should now be subscribed to this thread so that any updates we have to share will notify you :)

Hi Louise and Cam,

We did have an issue with the export to PDF function last night, but it should be all fixed up now! Can you try exporting again? 

I'm exporting to PDF and getting a 1 page blank file. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Hi guys, is there an issue with the export to PDF? seemed to be working ok at lunch, nothing is exporting at the moment? Thanks for the update! Cam

Always happy to share it, Michael! So please keep the ideas coming. 

A PDF copy of that cool Mars course you created though, doesn't sound nearly as fun! 😉