I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton, which
will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.
These changes perform the following tasks:
1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted to a
textfile using the tool *pdftotext*... the textfiles are located in the
following folder with the following format name:
/var/bigbluebutton/<meetingID>/<meetingID>/<presentationName>/textfiles/sli de-#.txt
2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array
PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation API:
/presentation/$conference/$room/$presentation_name/slides
If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of
BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:
sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the
BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation
won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or
bigbluebutton-web)...
On Monday, July 23, 2012 7:02:56 PM UTC-4, markos calderon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton, > which will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.
> These changes perform the following tasks:
> 1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted to > a textfile using the tool *pdftotext*... the textfiles are located in the > following folder with the following format name:
> 2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array > PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation API: > /presentation/$conference/$room/$presentation_name/slides
> If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of > BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:
> sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
> So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the > BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation > won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or > bigbluebutton-web)...
> - Markos
> -- > - Markos > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > BigBlueButton Developer > http://bigbluebutton.org > http://about.me/markoscalderon > "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:33:53 AM UTC-4, Chad Pilkey wrote:
> Thanks for the help with this Markos we will get it implemented into our > accessibility fork.
> Chad
> On Monday, July 23, 2012 7:02:56 PM UTC-4, markos calderon wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton, >> which will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.
>> These changes perform the following tasks:
>> 1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted to >> a textfile using the tool *pdftotext*... the textfiles are located in >> the following folder with the following format name:
>> 2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array >> PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation API: >> /presentation/$conference/$room/$presentation_name/slides
>> If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of >> BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:
>> sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
>> So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the >> BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation >> won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or >> bigbluebutton-web)...
>> - Markos
>> -- >> - Markos >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> BigBlueButton Developer >> http://bigbluebutton.org >> http://about.me/markoscalderon >> "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Chad Pilkey <capil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One question Markos, because you've made changes to bbb-web I need to
> setup the web dev environment and compile it correct?
> Chad
> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:33:53 AM UTC-4, Chad Pilkey wrote:
>> Thanks for the help with this Markos we will get it implemented into our
>> accessibility fork.
>> Chad
>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 7:02:56 PM UTC-4, markos calderon wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton,
>>> which will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.
>>> These changes perform the following tasks:
>>> 1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted
>>> to a textfile using the tool *pdftotext*... the textfiles are located
>>> in the following folder with the following format name:
>>> /var/bigbluebutton/<meetingID>**/<meetingID>/<**
>>> presentationName>/textfiles/**slide-#.txt
>>> 2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array
>>> PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation API:
>>> /presentation/$conference/$**room/$presentation_name/slides**
>>> If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of
>>> BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:
>>> sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
>>> So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the
>>> BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation
>>> won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or
>>> bigbluebutton-web)...
>>> - Markos
>>> --
>>> - Markos
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> BigBlueButton Developer
>>> http://bigbluebutton.org >>> http://about.me/markoscalderon >>> "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
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On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC-4, markos calderon wrote:
> yes, you will need to compile bigbluebutton-web and bigbluebutton-client...
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Chad Pilkey <capil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One question Markos, because you've made changes to bbb-web I need to >> setup the web dev environment and compile it correct?
>> Chad
>> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:33:53 AM UTC-4, Chad Pilkey wrote:
>>> Thanks for the help with this Markos we will get it implemented into our >>> accessibility fork.
>>> Chad
>>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 7:02:56 PM UTC-4, markos calderon wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton, >>>> which will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.
>>>> These changes perform the following tasks:
>>>> 1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted >>>> to a textfile using the tool *pdftotext*... the textfiles are located >>>> in the following folder with the following format name: >>>> /var/bigbluebutton/<meetingID>**/<meetingID>/<** >>>> presentationName>/textfiles/**slide-#.txt
>>>> 2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array >>>> PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation >>>> API: >>>> /presentation/$conference/$**room/$presentation_name/slides**
>>>> If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of >>>> BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:
>>>> sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
>>>> So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the >>>> BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation >>>> won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or >>>> bigbluebutton-web)...
>>>> - Markos
>>>> -- >>>> - Markos >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>> BigBlueButton Developer >>>> http://bigbluebutton.org >>>> http://about.me/markoscalderon >>>> "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
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> -- > - Markos > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > BigBlueButton Developer > http://bigbluebutton.org > http://about.me/markoscalderon > "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
