Greetings Colleagues, I hope you and yours are safe and well! The initial published PDF from my RISE module requires significant editing, fundamental page breaks not in the right place, alignment of images, interactive boxes placed in error. The RISE PDF is a valuable tool for us, the PDFprovides end-user a workbook/guide of the course materials. I'm looking for design tips or other options to spend less time revising the PDF. Thanks in advance for your guidance Cleon Be Safe

Hi Karl and Cleon, We also create a PDF export for each of our online courses. We then use Abbyy a software tool to convert exported PDFs to MS Word documents. This works better than importing PDFs directly into Word as it has extra functionality that makes for a more compact Word document. Once in MS Word, we used to use Find and Replace, using the Special Characters options to strip out blank paragraphs and unwanted carriage throws. But, better than that, we've found a more powerful option and now use an Add-in for MS Word called 'Kutools', this strips out framed text and all manner of weirdness created during the export of a PDF from Rise. On average we can knock the stuffing out of a biggish RISE module (the equivalent of two-three hours study) that initially generates a 150 page Word document, and shrink that to around 15 pages of keynotes in about two hours of our time. Once done, we re-PDF it for upload to our LMS for our students. When we change the module we find it relatively easy to either repeat the process or just patch the WORD document with the changes. This is a lot better for us than the way we used to work, fumbling through the PDF with a PDF editor. And, as a footnote, the new Editor Assistant that comes packaged with the latest version of Word is significantly better than the free version of tools like Grammarly. Regards, Stan

Hi RuthAnneDarr-4d, Thanks for reaching out! I understand how making these adjustments you described can be frustrating and time-consuming. The details you've provided help our team better understand the importance of this feature. We'll keep you updated with any news.

Hi Cleon, we create a PDF for each of our online courses. Every time a course changes we need to republish the PDF. So I create and edit PDF's a lot. So I completely share your frustrations with the Rise PDF output. To date I have not found that doing things differently in Rise has any meaningful impact on preventing issues in the PDF output. Manually editing PDF's is a also a huge problem as pretty much each sentence is it's own text box. So making edits on one page does not cause content on other pages to flow. Bullets in bullet lists are not part of the text, but a separate object, etc. It's all rather painful. Converting PDF's to Word solves some problems such as content flowing from page to page, but it still requires a lot of manual editing.

Hi Cheryl and Jennifer, Thanks so much for sharing how your team is using the Export to PDF feature. It sounds like you need more control over the page breaks in the exported document. We'll let you know if we make this change to the PDF export feature in the future!

Staff, I am currently working with a non for profit in South Africa who does not always have access to the internet. In order for them to access their content at all times, a pdf is the way go. However, I cannot present them with a PDF that doesn't flow properly and is misaligned. Has there been an update for PDF export corrections? What is the point of having this as an option if it is not going to function correctly?

Publishing RISE to PDF | Articulate

CleonMcClure-12
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi All

@Alyssa Gomez - Happy New Year!!

What's the latest update on improved PDF exports from RISE?
- Renz_Sevilla
  Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Cleon!
  
  Thanks for following up on this request and Happy New Year to you!
  
  We don't have any updates on this just yet, but we'll let you know if we make any changes that help! Here is our current Articulate 360 Roadmap of in development and planned features.
KevWhite
Community Member
10 months ago
I too, still find Rise PDF output problematic for accessibility purposes, especially Table Headers. Adobe auto and manual tagging seems to really botch Rise's PDF outputs.
LucianaPiazza
Staff
10 months ago
Hi Nick and Kev,

Thank you both for sharing your thoughts with us! We don't have any updates at this time. We'll be sure to notify this thread if we make this change to the PDF export feature in the future!
RickPetersen
Community Member
9 months ago
Luciana, There have been posts (complaints) here on this issue for FIVE YEARS! It's a most basic feature that a lot of folks need.
DarlaGatte-b6ab
Community Member
9 months ago
Watching for updates. The current PDFs are really not useful as published. Sadly I find screen shots and copy pasting the text of a large course takes less effort.
DebClemons
Community Member
8 months ago
Interesting read as the thread started over 4 yrs ago and doesn't seem to have much progress to improve the PDF results. To add to the frustration, I've recently been experiencing challenges converting the PDF to Word. The conversion results in unreadable text. Any idea what is causing this?
RuthAnneDarr-4d
Community Member
15 days ago
I have run into issues as well when publishing as a PDF and then converting to Word where any bold text within Rise ends up being an image of the text in Word, so all headings, subheadings, bold text, bullets, etc., have to be manually replaced as text again and the images removed. Very frustrating!
- KellyAuner
  Staff
  13 days ago
  Hi RuthAnneDarr-4d,
  
  Thanks for reaching out!
  
  I understand how making these adjustments you described can be frustrating and time-consuming. The details you've provided help our team better understand the importance of this feature. We'll keep you updated with any news.