Digital Workshop

This is Part 1 of a printing question. When Developing the Pub.

When I develop the Training module, how do I print a hardcopy workbook in Letter or A4 format.

I tried File >>>Print Publication but output does not include content of DovView objects and does not print all text of TextBox if it is long or scrolled off screen.

( I use Chapter pages set to 1024x768).

Plan to use Present Pro, so open to Script.

There is no simple, press one button solution to your question. OPUS only prints what is visible on each Page, so if you have Objects Initially Hidden, they won't print, nor will the non-visible portions of scrolled text, nor will DocView Objects print.

You will have to do a Copy & Paste into a word processor, then print everything from there. Remember, OPUS is an interactive, multimedia presentation tool. It does an outstanding job of interactively presenting multimedia presentations -- videos, audio sounds, VOs, music, animations. It is faster, easier and better than any other presentation tool. You might add your request to the "Wishlist" section of this Forum. Once or twice in all the years I've used Illuminatus and OPUS, I've had a client want a print out.

IDEA
Here's a possible idea which just came to me. Do a COPY and Paste of DocView & Scrolled text into OPUS' Notes feature, then print everything after selecting the option to print with Notes. Might not be "pretty" but you'd have everything associated with each Page that way...

Thanks, Fred

I was afraid that was the case... AND you are right about Opus being purposed for the display... and engaging trainees.

I am thinking that certain parts of the training will have extensive supporting material which I'd plan to display in Opus, but expect most users to read only the first page or so in DocView, then move on knowing they could refer to case detail/long text when they do other work offline, perhaps in small groups.

Based on what you've suggested, I will re-think my approach (about how much is included in Opus). I may have to create an Appendix chapter as one option, or somehow manually create a TOC for Opus structure when finalized. Then separately compile a Hardcopy workbook in some other app. 'Yes', needs to be "formatted" somewhat.

As for Wishlist... frankly I am still in early-stage, experimenting. Not sure I want to ask for capability that I've not sorted out first for myself.