We are still using PDF certificates and I have no intention of moving to HTML certificates. We were looking for the integration of the Stanford code into Open edX.
On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 2:56:07 PM UTC-5, Sandy Student wrote: > > 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/ccb3048f-4f99-43c4-87e8-2297c1d90c8c%40googlegroups.com.
