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Duet Software News: 2011/2012 

Vancouver Schools eSIS data export instructions (pdf)

* for Silhouette4 and SilhouetteCE: click here
* for SilhouetteELAR and SilhouetteIEP: click here.  However, please note that the final step in these instructions ("Start the Silhouette Extract program") is misleading. The correct instruction is: "Use Get Schoolwide Data File in Folders Utilities (on Student Reports window) to get the STUD_DEMO.txt file exported by eSIS."

Vancouver Schools eSIS Attendance to Silhouette Conversion: A-PDF Text Extractor
IMPORTANT MESSAGE - April 2012

Vancouver schools have been using the free A-PDF Text Extractor software to convert the eSIS attendance pdf file into a text file that is useable by SIlhouette to print attendance onto student reports. However, the newly released version of A-PDF Text Extractor creates an extract radically different from previous versions, so different that it is not useable by Silhouette!

SOLUTION: Be sure that you are using A-PDF Text Extractor in the Version 1.3.x series. 
A full install of Version 1.3.7 is available HERE. 

 

NOTE TO BURNABY SILHOUETTE 4 USERS (November 2010): Both the Windows (Version 4.9.1) and MacOS (Version 4.9.3) versions of Silhouette 4 have been revised to produce the new 2010 format for Burnaby Report Inserts.

Note to Silhouette4(MacOS) and SilhouetteCE(MacOS) users (November 2010): If you are unsuccessful in updating to the current version please look for a solution here (Silhouette4) or here (SilhouetteCE).

Checkmarks Problems on SilhouetteCE or SilhouetteELAR? We've had a few emails from teachers whose checkmarks show up as 'little igloos'  or 'snowflakes 'in Silhouette and as square brackets on the printouts. Usually the procedure below will fix the problem:
    Solution A: The computer has lost contact with the Common Bullets font. Close Silhouette. Click on Start, Settings, Control Panel and enter Fonts. Locate Common Bullets and click on it. That should open a window filled with symbols of different sizes.  Then close everything and run Silhouette again. The checks should be back.
    Solution B: If the above does not work then try this:
           1. Click on this link and save the file onto your desktop
           2. Close your browser and run InstallSilhouetteCEFont.exe. You will be all done in a few seconds.
           3. Check again for igloos or snowflakes.

April 30, 2012: SilhouetteIEP Version 1.0.7 - see version notes here

April 23, 2012: SilhouetteELAR Version 2.0.2  - see version notes here

April 23, 2012: SilhouetteGlenbrook2 Version 2.2.1 - see version notes here

March 7, 2012: Silhouette4RCS Version 4.8.3

August 24, 2011: SilhouetteCE (Windows) Version 1.9.4 - see version notes here 
                            Silhouette4 (Windows) Version 4.9.12 - see version notes here

August 3, 2011:   Silhouette4 (MacOS) Version 4.9.12 - see version notes here
                            SilhouetteCE (MacOS) Version 1.9.6 - see version notes here 

Important message to all MacOS users of Silhouette4 or SilhouetteCE:
1. Effective August, 2011, Silhouette will run on the new Lion Operating System and will not run on older Power PC Macs.
2. Anyone contemplating an update to Lion should update their Silhouette to the latest version before updating their operating system.
3. However, if you updated to Lion and discover that Silhouette4 or SilhouetteCE no longer runs on your computer (because you did not update to the latest version of Silhouette before updating to Lion), go to the Silhouette Installs/Updates page and download the MacOS update.

June 24, 2011: SilhouetteQMS - New Westminster Version 0.9.93 -  see version notes here

December 10, 2010: SilhouetteIEP Version 1.0.5 - see version notes here                            

Notice to users of SilhouetteResource in the VSB: SilhouetteResource will be discontinued this year as it becomes replaced by the SilhouetteELAR (for ESL and ES/D reporting) and SilhouetteIEP (for IEP's and LAC/Resource reporting)

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Special Notice for Vancouver Elementary Schools (December 10, 2009):    Version 1.3.7 of A-PDF Text Extractor had a bug that caused bad text extractions of eSIS attendance pdf files. A-PDF has fixed the problem and Version 1.3.8 is now available here.

Important Notice to MacOS Users of SilhouetteCE and Silhouette 4: The buttons for Get Template, Opening Comments, Goals/Support Plan, and Rename/Delete have been moved to the menu bar  (at the top of your monitor) in version 1.8.x of SilhouetteCE and version 4.8.x of Silhouette 4.

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