I'm looking for an Authoring Tool that creates Content Packages based on SCORM 2004 3rd edition through the use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I don't want to use Authoring Tools that use Flash to create Content Packages.
There is a good list of e-learning authoring tools at http://elearningatlas.com/
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I had asked before also for rendering pdf but its in blackberry JAVA development.
But currently I want to know , is it possible to render a PDF in the playbook using native sdk 2.0.0 with the QT framework.
If it is possible then can you suggest me some example if it exist on the google?
Is it possible with any third party library i.e of c++??
Thanks in advance.
It is possible, provided you agree to the licensing of the third party library.
Open source world has two know libraries for PDF rendering:
Poppler
MuPDF
Both provide bindings for Qt, the bad part is that both are licensed GPL.
However, the firms working behind both libraries provide commercial licensing options.
For commercial licensing:
GlyphandCog provides commercial licensing for XpdfWidget/Qt
Artifex Software, Inc. provides commercial licensing for MuPDF.
I have a small web application based on asp.net 2010 that manages invoices.
After the invoice is saved, it should automatically generate a pdf file.
which of the following solutions would be fast and easy to incorporate?
Use Sql Server 2008 Reports
Use Crystal Reports 2008 and Crystal Reports 2008 for VS 2010
Use itextsharp to create the pdf file
Use XSLFO to create the pdf file
The point here is I dont know any of the above. Which one is easy and quick to learn and implement. Are there any other solution to achieve this functionality?
The first two options sound a bit heavyweight for your requirements.
You don't say if you require it to be free (open source) or if you are happy to pay for a solution; a quick search found this: ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter
I have to admit that I have never used it but it might be an easy solution if you are already displaying the invoice on your web page.
I would go for XSL-FO as it is open standard and you are not being locked in a proprietary solution. You also have access to visual XSL-FO editors/designers and 3 or 4 high volume server to choose from.
As far as I know, many invoicing statements solutions today use XSL-FO becuse it is very powerful - you can footnotes or very complex pagination, 10-20 output formats, etc.
I personally prefer iTextSharp as it is very flexible as you build the PDF from code as you need it. However as it is a port of the iText open source java library for PDF it is not 100% intuitive (well from a c# perspective)..
However said there are a lot of help blogs and articles.
I have found:-
SQL server 2008 needs a lot of configuration and does not quite give you what you want.
You need to purchase Crystal Reports, however said it is quite a good product
iTextSharp - Free, fairly easy to set up but not 100% intuitive
I have used this and found it tough going although it is possible to get the desired ouput.
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For question regarding VS2010, I used it with VS2005 a number of years ago as the basic version came shipped with VS2005. According to the website it appears to integrate into Visual Studio 2010, however this I suspect depends on what version you have.
SAP Crystal Reports can open and edit
files created with SAP Crystal
Reports, version for Visual Studio
2010 (and vice-versa), providing a
fuller set of report design features
compared to SAP Crystal Reports,
version for Visual Studio 2010. SAP
Crystal Reports does not include
tooling to support the Visual Studio
2010 development environment but
developers can use the SAP Crystal
Reports, version for Visual Studio
2010 runtime engine to deploy SAP
Crystal Reports RPT files with all the
extended design features.
i have done something similar with XSLFO - if you know XSLT then XSLFO is very simple to add to XSLT
For me, using Aspose.Words with the mailmerge feature was always the fastest and most flexible/comfortable solution, although not the cheapest.
The super simple way is use third party converter such as ABCPdf, Winnovative PDF Converter. But they cost abount $500 USD.
You said you bought Crystal Report, it can use to generate pdf as well, just use Crystal Report design the pdf template, connect to your database (dataset,datatables). In your code to push data from your database and fill the pdf template finally save as pdf.
But deploy Crystal Report you need merge some modules, otherwise you need install Crystal Report on your server as well.
Is there any SCORM RTE in .NET exists?
I have gone through DotNetNuke but found it unfriendly.
If you are looking solely for a .NET SCORM RTE and not a full blown LMS than Rustici Software makes a .NET SCORM RTE available at http://scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-engine/
If you need a good LMS starting point then try the Sharepoint Learning Environment at slk.codeplex.com. There is an RTE in there, as well as many other tools for a full SCORM environment.
Bear in mind that a SCORM RTE on its own may not be very helpful. You need to consider matters like persisting it, how and where you are going to do this. And without the rest of the SCORM environment ( particularly SN ) then you will not have proper SCORM compliance.
If you need it simply for running certain SCORM packages, then this should do you fine.
I want to create an add-in to visio so that I can draw BPMN diagrams (Business Process Modeling Notation). A similar work is available here: http://www.interfacing.com/free-visio-bpmn-modeler. But I want to create my own icons(notations) and make it domain specific. Please help me? How can I do this? What languages do I have to use?
You can develop add-ins for Visio using the Visio SDK. There are several versions, of which the 2010 SDK is the most recent. It contains samples written in C#, VB.NET, C++, and even classic VB. The best place to start learning about developing for Visio would be the Visio Developer Center.
Just download the Visio add-in. Visio allows you to create your own shapes so you can customize the shapes provided.
With Visio 2007, they introduced a rules feature so you can embellish the addin with custom rules.
I'm writing some SCORM SCOs to be embedded in clients' learning management systems but I currently don't have anything to test them on. It seems foolish (to the point of being unprofessional) to just foist these files upon the clients and to hope they "just work".
Is there a simple framework I can use to test a SCORM SCO package? I realise I could spend all day setting up a whole learning management system but if there's something more simple, I'd be really appreciative.
You will definitely want to check out the SCORM Cloud. They have a trial version you can use.
There's always the Test Suite provided by the publishers of the SCORM specification.
If you're working with SCORM 1.2, I'd recommend the Reload Scorm Player.
Tt's free, very easy to install and you don't need to be a tech guy to make use of it.
http://www.reload.ac.uk/new/scormplayer.html
I have used the tools from http://www.ostyn.com/resdownloads.htm both for testing SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. Basicly just a HTML page that wraps the SCO in an iframe with a nice console to keep track of the communicaton.
http://scormpool.com has scorm proxy player with trace log option. Supports SCORM 1.2 and 2004 4-th edition plus you can download player and run it on you local computer.