Hello open edX users and contributors, As you may have encountered while running or working with Open edX, our platform historically has offered learners certificates of course completion that are either web-based (rendered in the browser as HTML) or PDF-based. If you've ever used the "Certificate Web/HTML View Enabled" setting, you are likely familiar with this. If you have not, note that this setting defaults to 'true' and your instance is likely to be using web certificates.
We are looking at the possibility of deprecating PDF certificates as part of the next Open edX release and possibly even deleting the code entirely. edX.org no longer supports PDF certificates, and as we move away from using RabbitMQ, we are also moving away from supporting PDF certs because they are integrated directly with RabbitMQ–that is, they are not managed by Celery like other asynchronous tasks. I am reaching out to get a sense of how extensively PDF certificates are used by other Open edX instances and how much of a burden it would be for those instances to move to web certificates. Thank you! Sandy Software Engineer, edX Educator team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/511b552e-8eab-4173-9fa7-34cd13c0ef9b%40googlegroups.com.
