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Moodle Plugin for merging pdf files in a course

The ‘Merge PDF Files’ plugin offers users a convenient way by which they can merge the PDF documents in a Moodle course.
This plugin requires two external tools:

• PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a cross-platform tool for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.
  
• LaTeX – A document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
  

The module is created and is currently being developed at IIT, Bombay (India).

• This folder is to be added under moodle/report directory.
  
• Also, the folder contains a patch file which needs to be applied.

After adding this plugin to moodle:

• Go to a particular course
• Click on settings icon
• A link saying "Merge PDF files" appears in the course settings (drop-down menu) list.
• Then, you get a page listing all the pdf files in that particular course.
• At the end of this page, you get a button labeled "Merge pdf files".
• On clicking the button, the user will get a merged document of all the course files listed on that page.

Through this feature, now users will be able to merge pdf files in a particular course from within moodle itself.

The following functionality is currently being incorporated into this plugin wherein:

• user can shufffle the listed pdf files
• user can select only a few/all pdf files
• a list of previously merged pdf documents will be displayed to the user