printing papers (when selecting print to files) (Feature #256)

math user wrote:

Would it be possible to put ALL question papers (for ALL students) in a single PDF-file and ALL the separate answer sheets also in a single PDF-file?
I switch to Windows and print the question papers as little booklets which is not possible when using Linux together with our printers. (Answer sheets are printed as usual as single sheets.)

to print All question papers in single pdf-file:
open project folder then copy/past DOC-subject.pdf to usb then print the file in any system (win,linux,mac ...).

to print all answer sheets in single pdf-file :
open AMC then open "Reports tab" , from dropdown list select "one file for all".

regards

(I use the option separateanswersheet.)

red sea wrote:

to print All question papers in single pdf-file:
open project folder then copy/past DOC-subject.pdf to usb then print the file in any system (win,linux,mac ...).

In my case this includes the separate answer sheets. I just want all the questions without the answer sheets.

to print all answer sheets in single pdf-file :
open AMC then open "Reports tab" , from dropdown list select "one file for all".

I would like to print all the empty separate answer sheets.

• all questions for all students and
• all separate answer sheets for all students

• the wanted file "questions sheets.pdf" consists of pages 1-8, 11-18 and 21-28 of DOC-sujet.pdf
• the wanted file "(separate) answer sheets.pdf" consists of pages 9-10, 19-20 and 29-30 of DOC-sujet.pdf

Thanks!

This is exactly what I always do, though not to the questions, but to the answer sheets.
For this I use the pdftk package which is in the ubuntu repository.

I leave the question files as separate documents, because then our printer can staple them automatically and I have not find another way yet.
For the answer sheets I do combine them into one file, which I call forms.pdf.
My pdftk command would then be (assuming you are in the copies directory, containing all files):

pdftk *A.pdf cat output forms.pdf

Then I can use that one file to print the forms (print them single sided,). which I do
on my linux box with

lp -o sides=one-sided forms,pdf

Of course it is simple to also combine the question files in this way.

I try to keep the answer sheets to one page. If one needs more pages, one is best advised to print the single sided, as sometimes colour leaks through to the other side and you might get scanning errors. And of course single sided printing of the forms file is a must, otherwise two candidates would have to share one sheet of paper which is a bit impractical to say the least;-))

Thanks for the hint, Pieter!

The pdftk package seems to do exactly what I want. Perhaps Alexis can include this in the new version of AMC? That would be great!

It would be great if the user could choose if the separate answer sheet is the first or the last sheet (question sheets before or after the separate answer sheet).
Thanks!

Thanks for implementing this feature, Alexis!

However, it does not work for me yet.
If I select
Answer sheet first (Answer sheet printing),
the command output is
Student 0001: 2 slices to file [path] ...
That's it - AMC hangs here.
(The other two answer sheet printing options work perfectly.)
Thanks in advance for fixing this issue.

Can you send a debug mode log file?

Switching to extract engine gs

Even if you chose <pdftk>, AMC switched to <gs>: it seems that pdktk is not installed.
Can you check that pdftk is installed, and try again?
This lacks some GUI message to explain this to the user, I'm afraid.

Now it works. Sorry that I did not get this in the first place!

This lacks some GUI message to explain this to the user, I'm afraid.

No problem, this is just the development version.
Would it be possible (in version 1.3) to add a dependency so that pdftk is installed automatically together with AMC?