Thanks, Sascha. All of this goes into The Undiscoverable, and later into Sugar documentation.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable On Thu, May 12, 2011 4:19 pm, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Johanna Wener's message of Thu May 12 21:08:31 +0200 2011: > >> The big problem I have is, that everything that the children do on the >> olpc >> could not be used for learning because there is no way to print their >> works >> out. > > I expect others to reply to the educational part of that sentence (i.e. > is there a better way to reach your goals than consuming lots of energy, > water and trees?). > >> We tried to make a screenshot and send it by mail - doesnt work! > > What exactly have you tried and how did it fail? > > Walters brand-new Portfolio activity [1] has support for exporting > selected, annotated Journal entries as HTML. You could save it to a USB > stick, open the HTML file on a computer with an attached printer and > print from within the browser. > > If you install CUPS on the system running Sugar (probably an XO judging > from the subject), you can use a browser other than Browse to print > locally. Or you can copy the Journal entry to the regular file system > using copy-to-journal and print using the "lpr" command from within > Terminal. > > A whole bunch of other options would combine the following: > > 1. Acquiring a printable file: > a) take a screenshot by pressing <Alt>+1 > b) some activities can export as PDF > c) some activities can export as HTML > d) some activities use a file format that can be read by non-Sugar > applications (e.g. Write uses ODT, native file format of > LibreOffice nee OpenOffice) > e) Write 73 can export to PDF, so you could try using the clipboard > to import content into Write and export as PDF > > 2. Transferring the file to Gnome or a different computer: > a) copy to a USB stick, SD card or USB hard disk using the Journal > b) using copy-from-journal from within Terminal to copy the Journal > entry to the home directory (so Gnome can access it) > c) using datastore-fuse [3] to access the Journal entry from within > Gnome (experimental - you might need help from a techie) > d) uploading the files to some web site (Moodle, wiki, photo > gallery like Flickr, pastebin site, ...) and accessing that site > from the computer with the printer. > > 3. Printing from within Gnome or on a different computer running a > desktop system other than Sugar: > a) for PDF and ODT just opening the file and printing from within the > PDF viewer resp. word processor should usually work well enough. > b) for HTML use a browser. You might need to tweak some options to > get pretty output. I've seen browsers cutting a line of text in > half; hopefully that's fixed by now. > c) Gimp is pretty good for printing images, though it could be a bit > overwhelming. > d) CUPS understands several file formats natively (including images); > just type "lpr name_of_the_file.jpg" (without the quotes). > > > I'd love to tell you to download the Print activity [2] and print > directly from within Sugar, but unfortunately I haven't managed to get > it to work yet. However, the above options hopefully get you unblocked > now; we can work on better solutions later. > > Sascha > > [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4437 > [2] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-August/thread.html#18173 > [3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/datastore-fuse > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep