Do not compile the final exam manually with pdflatex (Feature #404)


Added by Giovanni Cangiani almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.


Status:New Start date:02/04/2016
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Hello,

I just wanted to share this tiny issue I had recently. May be you could add a warning in the documentation.

When I printed the final exam for the students, I compiled it manually with pdflatex without realising that this results in a slightly different PDF file where, in particular, the horizontal check boxes used for marking open questions are spaced differently from the file generated by AMC. This prevents AMC from detect the boxes on the scanned exams. In my case, I fixed the problem by editing the DOC-calage.xy file but it is quite a cumbersome process...
Digging into the code, I found that the actual command used to compile the exam copies within AMC is something like

pdflatex --jobname=amc-compiled '\nonstopmode\def\NoWatermarkExterne{1}\def\NoHyperRef{1}\def\SujetExterne{1} \input{"exam.tex"}'

(just in case you still want to compile the exam manually).


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Updated by Alexis Bienvenüe almost 9 years ago

To be safe, you should always print the exam with AMC gui, after having checked all is ok with layout detection.

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