Generating Report problem

Management and Administration
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nursejeff wrote on Monday, March 19, 2012:

When generating a report, you have the choice of selecting the scanned in documents, such as a copy of the patient’s insurance card.  When generating the report, however, the pdf file pull up correctly.

It there a preference I need to choose or is this a bug?

Thanks as always.

Jeff Guillory
NP Health Clinic

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nursejeff wrote on Monday, March 19, 2012:

When generating a report, you have the choice of selecting the scanned in documents, such as a copy of the patient’s insurance card. When generating the report, however, the pdf file does not pull up correctly.

Is there a preference I need to choose or is this a bug?

Thanks as always.

Jeff Guillory
NP Health Clinic

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, March 20, 2012:

Jeff,
   What specifically does it do?  Is the an error message or something?   The report using imagemagik (convert) to make PDFs viewable.  Do you have that installed and available?
-Tony  

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cverk wrote on Wednesday, March 21, 2012:

I think what happens is that imagemagic takes a multipage PDF and creates a file of JPG’s that are in a line without page breaks.  You can then view them in a browser page, but if you try to print it, only the first page of the PDF will print.  That is the same if you try to print it to paper, or PDF or fax. So you basically cannot use reports and select all to produce a single electronic file for a patient to send anywhere else. I have been just using a work around of saving them all to paperport individually and the stacking them into a single PDF, because I basically could not figure out how to make page breaks, since jpg’s seem not to be designed to be multiple pages, but web pages don’t seem to show PDF’s natively.

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cverk wrote on Wednesday, March 21, 2012:

I put this on the feature request tracker in October, but there has been a ton of more important stuff since then, like meaningful use and 5010 etc.

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nursejeff wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2012:

When I click on the pdf file to be generated in the report, only the name of the file with a small graffic icon appears.  The actual document (pdf) does not open, or can be viewed in that generated report.

Do I need to install imagemagic on the server?  Are there commands on the server that I need to turn on?  If I click on the document in the “documents” the pdf does show without problems, but not when generating the report.

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cverk wrote on Friday, March 23, 2012:

Imagemagic needs to be installed on the server to view them.  I was referring to trying to print them to paper or pdf file.

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, March 23, 2012:

Hi,

Here’s some info for installing Imagemagic on your server:
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_is_ImageMagick.3F

-brady
OpenEMR