Forum Discussion
PDF Formatting
Most of my students prefer a PDF version to be available for digital note-taking. The formatting in PDFs is pretty terrible, namely the awkward page breaks that occasionally split an image or text or create almost totally blank pages. Any advice on how to build the blocks so that they flow better in a PDF?
Thanks,
- Jacki Hudec with WSU College of Medicine
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Hello, Jacki!
The export to PDF feature in Rise will break the content over pages, and that has caused some oddities that our team has been looking into.
In the meantime, you may be able to correct text size and page break issues by editing the exported course in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
I also linked this discussion to the existing issues our team is looking into, so I'll keep you posted here with any other updates!
Hi Alyssa - any news yet on the 'oddities' when doing PDFs of SCORM - we have big courses that we develop in RISE and then need to provide PDFs to the students as study notes, and I am getting loads of complaints from students because the PDF notes look so unprofessional with all odd breaks in sentences etc. Look forward to your feedback.
Hi Glennis,
Thanks for reaching out!
I don’t currently have any updates, but you are now subscribed to this conversation which means as we share updates here, you’ll automatically be notified.
How about now? When will the PDF issue be fixed?
In the present form I cannot provide the PDF export to our students without looking like we are unprofessional and provide poorly formatted PDF material.
I attempted to reformat using Adobe Pro, but get errors.
Hi there, Allen. The PDF export helps teams meet compliance requirements by having a "hard copy" version of their e-learning content. We are tracking a feature request to improve the formatting of the output for wider use, so I've made sure that your comments are included in that report.
We'll update you here with any changes!
We have a person on our team re-paginate, build a PDF friendly TOC, and align titling/headings-- as well as inserting a custom cover page into our exported RIse PDF's (Using Acrobat Pro DC). Otherwise, it looks like what others above have described as unprofessional.
In the original export format, it's certainly not what we're ready to send off to our PDF printing vendor where students can order up a hard copy to be sent to them. IMHO, the original export is only viable as an internal markup/notes/SME review copy.Hi there, a resolution for the above issue is really taking a long time. I have been testing Rise for about 4 weeks now. 360 Rise is not cheap so I'm not sure whether I should rather use an alternative product. Please give us an expected time for this problem to be solved.
Hi Keith,
Thanks for letting us know this is important to you, and I'll let our team know you're interested in improved formatting for the PDF export feature. This change isn't on our roadmap right now, so hopefully that helps you as you make plans for future projects.
As a new user to Rise 360, I stumbled across this same "unprofessional look" while exporting as a pdf. At a minimum I would like to be able to turn on/off the "Lesson.." page headers.
Is this something that has made it onto the roadmap?
Hi Paul,
I'm sorry I don't have any updates to share. This isn't something on our roadmap right now, but I appreciate you letting us know this feature is important to you.
I guess there still isn't an update for this?
Hi Lewis! We promise to let you know if we make plans to enhance the Export to PDF feature. Thanks for chiming in here!
