Handouts still Horrible in β4

TCBlack

So I popped open a handout I'd created before which I had forced down to about three items (Don't ask me how I can't repeat the process now).   I added a verse reference and immediately a few crossword puzzles get added to the mix.  Fine, but I don't want the answers.  So I uncheck the answers and they pop to the bottom of the list and get added back on!

ARGH! 

Maybe it's a bug in the old handout. 

Create a new handout >> type in my passage (1 Peter 1:22-2:3)  It populates with  several itterations of word finds and the text.  YAY at least the completely worthless and random links to people unrelated and unmentioned in the passage are gone.

So I begin to customize.  This is a handout, not an answer sheet so I attempt to turn off the answers for the (Several) wordfinds.  They keep coming back!  The only way to get rid of them is a workaround which means I make blank sections.

Let me say this very clearly:  Handouts are completely worthless if I can't turn things off!  I don't care that I can bump them out of the way, they need to be OFF and they should be off by default.  I should have a blank page on the right with a series of available "click this box to add me" stuff.

And when I click a box, it should add, when I unclick a box it should go away.  When I click more than will fit on a page, expand to another page.  But don't make me force a workaround by adding blank sections.  That's  a kludge not a solution.

DO NOT FORCE FILL THE PAGE!

TCBlack

I finally did it! 

I managed to create a handout for my study tonight using the handout interface.  But it was HORRIBLE in every sense of the word.

1. It was slow, every change felt like I was clicking in slow motion, every modification took from 5-25 seconds to generate.  That may not seem like much but I had to keep changing the settings, spacing and so forth in order to get it all on one page.
2. Having finally forced, finagled and fussed the thing into compliance I hit print, and I CANNOT print it.  I have the settings to: Sheet,Letter,Single Side but when I print it's asking for duplex (for a single side paper!) which is not set up on my printer.  So my printer complains "Duplex option not attached" and I cannot print my handout that took me over an hour to complete.  [8o|]
   (Printer=Konica Minolta Magicolor 5430 DL  This is a SOHO class network, color laser printer.)
3. So I begin fighting with the default print settings: Duplex and booklet printing is OFF.  Pagelayout is Letter, portrait, Tray one, plain paper,  In other words, every setting is exactly the same for any other program I print with. But I cannot print because handouts are apparently designed to print [only] on a duplex printer. 

I finally had to force a work around by printing to an XPS image document, and then print it from the XPS viewer.

There's still a long way to go before handouts are usable. 

Great idea, poor implementation so far.

Robert Pavich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/15757#Comment_15757

Thomas,

I agree, the handouts have come a long way but there are definitely still issues.

When this gets polished I think it will be a real usable feature.

John Norman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/15757#Comment_15757

I finally did it! 

I managed to create a handout for my study tonight using the handout interface.  But it was HORRIBLE in every sense of the word.

I did not think we were allowed to use them for a study (during closed beta), or did you mean just for your personal study?

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/17129#Comment_17129

I did not think we were allowed to use them for a study (during closed beta), or did you mean just for your personal study?

Um...

EEK. 

[:|]  You know John, I never thought about it.  It was for my very small (4kids) youth group.  half of which are my own children. 

I'd better not do that again.  <slaps self on back of the hand>