Previously I used Multiple PDF Printer but this no longer works with Acrobat X. Instead I created an Action Wizard that allows you to select the folder with all the PDFs and it will print them all to your default printer with the default settings.

I then added another step to the action that uses Javascript to extract the student’s name from the file name and added it as a header to each page of that file. Finally this was modified so that the name is always on the outer edge, when it is printed back to back and stapled on the left.

To create this you can follow the following directions or import the attached action. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Acrobat X - Edit Action

In Acrobat X:

1. File -> Action Wizard -> Create New Action
2. Click More Tools and then click Execute JavaScript and then click Print.
3. Change Start with to Ask when Action is Started
4. Click on the Options button for JavaScript and paste in the following:

var strFilename = this.documentFileName;
// A regular expression to acquire the base name of the file
// Removes everything before last underscore for Ghosted_EnrolmentForm_
var re = /.*\/|.*_|\.pdf$/ig;
// Get student name by stripping path and everything to left of underscore
var strFilename = strFilename.replace(re,"").replace(",",", ");
var pageAmount = this.numPages; // Finds the length of the PDF

for (i = 0; i 	{
	if (i % 2 == 0) {
		// Odd
		this.addWatermarkFromText({
			cText: strFilename,
			nStart: i,
			nEnd: i,
			nFontSize: 11,
			nTextAlign: app.constants.align.right,
			nHorizAlign: app.constants.align.right,
			nVertAlign: app.constants.align.top,
			nHorizValue: -28, nVertValue: -10
		});
	}	else  {
		// Even
		this.addWatermarkFromText({
			cText: strFilename,
			nStart: i,
			nEnd: i,
			nFontSize: 11,
			nTextAlign: app.constants.align.left,
			nHorizAlign: app.constants.align.left,
			nVertAlign: app.constants.align.top,
			nHorizValue: 28, nVertValue: -10
		});
	}
}

5. Click OK. Then click Saveand type in a name for the action and a description.
   

   Add Folders or Files

6. Set your default printer and printer settings to how you want your documents to print (e.g. Double sided, Stapled).
7. File -> Action Wizard -> <Your new action>
8. Click Next on summary screen. You may tick Don’t show again box if you wish.
9. Click Add Files… drop down and choose Add Folders… and select the folder holding the PDFs.
10. Click Next and it will start adding the header and printing the files.

Useful Links:

• Base for the JavaScript header is from Steve Wareham’s block post on Adding a Dynamic Stamp to a PDF.
• The code to extract file name is from Adobe JavaScript Reference

Some additional notes:

To use the DET mail server you can either add mail.det.nsw.edu.au to the mail section of your php.ini file or add it to the
Admin -> Server -> Email: SMTP Hosts section.
If you wish to restrict to sending to DET emails you can add following to the Allowed email domains : “education.nsw.gov.au det.nsw.edu.au“.
Make sure to test the mail server settings before adding any restrictions to domains.

If using Novell or Mac OS you will need to use a different LDAP browser as AD Explorer only works with Active Directory.
For Novell I usually use the free Windows program Softerra LDAP Browser (MSI).
There are a few Java based LDAP browsers that should work with Mac. A good Java based LDAP browser is JXplorer this should work on Mac, Windows and Linux. For some more info on Mac and LDAP look at this article on LDAP in Mac OS X Server from the Mac Dev Center, it is not fully applicable as it also has home drive mapping but it does contain some useful info.

Paul Ganderton has made his Geography HSC site avaliable for guests. You can also view some of the other course on our Moodle site. Look for this logo which means guest access is allowed.

Bulk Operations: Some people asked about bulk deletion of users and courses.
This section has been moved to Moodle: Bulk Deletion Operations.

Presentations:

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Plugins used by Moodle

Some of the items shown during talk are produced by plugins to Moodle. Below is a list of some of our favourites:

• Book: Allows structuring resource pages with chapters and pages.
• Gallery: Shows slide shows and generates thumbnails of images. You can upload a zip file containing an entire folder structure of pictures, and auto-generate albums and sub-albums from it.
• Course Menu: Creates a Tree Structure as a block on side of page to assist navigation.
• Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. On the main SBHS Moodle page there is also a Library block that sends search queries to our Sentral library page. This will need to be customised by schools to point to their Sentral system or the new DET My Library system (only accessible inside DET WAN). Just modify the block_library.php file to point to your Library search page. To install place the library directory in your Moodle blocks folder.