[Building Sakai] Has anybody created a PDF Certificate tool?

[Zhen Qian]

Hi, Brian:

Just curious; Site Info tool uses Apache FOP/XSLT to generate pdf file for site participants. Is PDFBox easier to use compared to FOP? How to choose btw the two?

Thanks,

- Zhen

On Feb 1, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Brian Baillargeon wrote:

> Thanks for the heads up Steve. I was using itext version 2.0.7 in my 
> proof of concept, so this morning I reimplemented it using pdfbox from 
> apache instead.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On 12-01-31 05:07 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>> 
>> This sounds like it could be a great extension to the gradebook itself?
>> 
>> In a previous life I have done a lot of PDF work via iText which was great to work with, unfortunately it's community license is AGPL, so not appropriate for Sakai. Interested to see what you come up with.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/02/2012, at 4:23 AM, Brian Baillargeon wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I would like to know if anybody has created a tool or is interested in assisting in creating a tool with the following requirements:
>>> 
>>> An instructor specifies a pdf template file for a certificate in their course's resources.
>>> The instructor specifies a minimum grade and a gradebook column.
>>> There could be other info for the instructor to specify as well such as whether to display the student's grade in the certificate, the pixel positions of each stamp, font sizes, etc.
>>> 
>>> If a student has met the minimum grade for the provided gradebook column, they get a link to save or download a pdf stamped with their name (and other info if applicable).
>>> 
>>> I've created a simple proof of concept, but if anybody has been working on something similar I'd be very interested.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>> 
>>> 
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