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
>

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