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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon SafeExamBrowser

Allow text search in Browser (Mac) rendered PDFs

Open brunobaudry opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug Searching inside browser rendered PDF doesn't yield any result as it does on the Windows version.

To Reproduce A. With SEB 4 Mac :

  1. "Allow text search" Browser config ticked.
  2. "Allowing downloading and uploading file ..." "Allow usig acrobat..." unticked. (PDF rendered in SEB).
  3. Open Web page that has a link to a PDF, the PDF is rendered in SEB.
  4. Fill in an identical text that you can read (and that is selectable, not pixelised) in the PDF in the search field.
  5. Click the magnifier.
  6. Acknowledge that no result yields.

B. Reproduce the steps with SEB 4 Windows and acknowledge in step 6 that results yield.

Expected behavior The behaviour of "Allow text search" should be platform agnostic (if feasible indeed) for fairness when student are performing an exam.

Version Information

  • OS: 14.5
  • SEB Version 3.3.3

brunobaudry avatar Jul 05 '24 09:07 brunobaudry

indeed with "Classic" engine settings... Now reading @danschlet feedback on issue #299 it will never be fixed with the classic engine. The issue we had is that hte rendered embedded PDF in moodle are 10% of the size. And we could not find the way to mitigte that... Any clue ? (I will paste a screen shot)

brunobaudry avatar Jul 09 '24 14:07 brunobaudry

indeed with "Classic" engine settings... Now reading @danschlet feedback on issue #299 it will never be fixed with the classic engine. The issue we had is that hte rendered embedded PDF in moodle are 10% of the size. And we could not find the way to mitigte that... Any clue ? (I will paste a screen shot)

If you talk about a problem regarding PDF files showing in very small (taking 1/4 of the window) we only had this problem when using Moodle Folder Ressource. When opening PDF files that did not come from a Folder Resource they showed up correctly.

ghost avatar Oct 31 '24 14:10 ghost

Yes @acamacho-unige thanks for the feedback ! And actually when needing to open several PDF and opttion/ctrl + tab to switch between windows is not possible with PDFs in Moodle's Resource Folder. So all needed PDF for an open have to be as simple file resource.

brunobaudry avatar Nov 06 '24 14:11 brunobaudry