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Saving Storyline Variables to a PDF
I was asked about an example I created for saving variables from Storyline into a PDF file for download. Rather than fill the ELHChallenge thread with the information I decided to write up a threa...
Great example, Josh. Works great in Firefox and Chrome. Experimented with this earlier in the year. Gave up when it got sticky in IE8, as this was one of my requirements. I think it was in the method used for saving the PDF that failed. There was a Flash-based workaround but I found an alternate.
You might have some luck embedding your dependencies in a Web object and dynamically writing them into the head of your document to save having to add them after each publish. Here's the function I use to rewrite headers at run time. This doesn't work well for everything but for PDF generation it should be fine.
//where is our carry-on baggage? Find this by right-clicking the web object and choosing open. Grab the object ID from the address bar.
this.oLocation="story_content/WebObjects/66vjsN26Fjn/";
//load the scripts dynamically
function add_script(scriptURL,oID) {
var scriptEl = document.createElement("script");
var head=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
scriptEl.type = "text/javascript";
scriptEl.src = scriptURL;
scriptEl.id=oID;
head.appendChild(scriptEl);
}
//only want to add these once! Check to see if the ID exists first.
if(document.getElementById('soundman')==null){
//first parameter is the script reference to add to the header, second is the object ID
add_script(oLocation+"script/soundmanager2-jsmin.js","soundman");
}
I also added another page to the PDF after each doc.text variable.
doc.addPage();
Steve, do you know how to attach this PDF to an new email message in Outlook?
Steve - do you know if this method is still working in 360? I've tried a couple of variations and have had no luck. Thanks.
