Sarah,
Assuming you are a Magic facility you can set this up pretty easily using VMagic (PPII) Printing and a free PDF converter called PrimoPDF from a company called ActivePDF. If you don't know how to set up VMagic printing go to http://www.meditech.com/prsystems/Pages/SYSmcSCppiisetup.htm and read the instructions on how to set it up. As a general rule go ahead and update your Remote Workstation client to the latest version before you do this. Also I noticed that we typically have to manually start the VMagicPPII.exe program the first time and then reboot the machine. After that it should run automatically as a service on startup. Be aware that if you are running Windows XP firewall you will get an alert. Go ahead and click unblock when asked. Once VMagic printing is working install PrimoPDF. You can get it at www.PrimoPDF.com <http://www.primopdf.com/> . The setup file is named FreePrimo32Setup.exe. Run it and follow the on screen instructions. When you are finished with the installation you have the option of reading the online manual (you can blow past this). The program installs itself as a printer. When you print out of any Windows Application (including MEDITECH Remote Workstation) you can select it as the printer you want to use and it will pop up a dialog box for PrimoPDF that allows you to save the printer output to a file on your PC. You have the option to save the PDF with encryption, passwords, print restrictions, edit restrictions, document properties, etc. The manual covers all of the different features including how to change resolution and version of the PDF format you want to use when saving your files to PDF. To use it with MEDITECH I typically print the NPR report I want to capture to PREVIEW (notice I wrote PREVIEW and not VIEW). That will run MEDITECH Document Manager. This gives you the opportunity to select PrimoPDF as the printer you want to use, otherwise you would have to set PrimoPDF as your default Windows printer and print to LOCAL. Click on the Printer Icon at the top of the screen and you will be prompted for the Printer you want to use. Click the little down arrow and PrimoPDF should be on your list of printers. Select it and click OK and follow the screens. You can change the Save As: path and file name and/or change all the setting you wish. PrimoPDF is a really nice little program. One thing to look at: If memory servers PrimoPDF is set to append files by default. If you want to overwrite files by the same name you will need to click on the Options button on the PrimoPDF dialog box and click on the Overwrite radio button. The manual covers this and all of the other settings. ActivePDF also has a relatively inexpensive version for companies that want to automatically distribute and customize PrimoPDF using a MSI file. We're using just the free version right now on a few machines, but it works like a charm. I hope this helps, Kelley Fredrickson Chief Information Officer Henderson Memorial Hospital 300 Wilson Street Henderson, TX 75652 903.655.3701 (Voice) 903.655.3901 (Fax) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: Bush, Sarah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Creating pdf file from an NPR report Hello, Has anyone been able to download and store an NPR report as pdf file? We would like to take the report output and store it as an object in a pdf format. Kind Regards, Sarah Bush Information Systems Analyst (815) 740-1234 x7843 Silver Cross Hospital Solucient 100 Top Hospitals(r) National award winner, 2004, 2005, 2006
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