Opening PDF Forms in Open EMR

Management and Administration
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nursejeff wrote on Monday, January 13, 2014:

Hello all,

This may not be an issue with OpenEMR but perhaps someone could help me. Thanks to everyone.

I am presently using Win 8, Firefox 26, OpenEMR 4.1.2(4). When I click on a pdf file to view, such as imported lab files, it does not open in OpenEMR, but it downloads. Then I have to go to the download file to have my computer open the file.

Is there a setting that will allow it to open in the NOTES box instead of it downloading?

Thanks.

Jeff Guillory
NP Health Clinic

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fsgl wrote on Monday, January 13, 2014:

In Firefox, Tools->Options->Applications, change “Save File” to “Preview in Firefox”.

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blankev wrote on Tuesday, January 14, 2014:

Tnx, hope to remember this next time I want to make a change…

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anonymous wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

I find the pdf preview function to be fairly inconsistent. Some of our pdf documents will display properly in the content field, but other times the Firefox open/save prompt will trigger. Seems to be specific to the individual file. Any ideas why this might be happening?

Also, how difficult would it be to open pdf documents in a new tab or window with Firefox’s built-in pdf viewer? I think that would be ideal over the smaller viewing area in the documents menu and would allow for greater efficiency in a multi-monitor environment.

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cmswest wrote on Thursday, January 23, 2014:

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mdsupport wrote on Thursday, January 23, 2014:

Built-in Firefox pdf viewer is a html 5 based tool. Compatibility is dictated by how document was created - something you or Firefox cannot control.

If you want consistent results, you have to install another plug-in as specified in section “Using a PDF reader plugin” of this Firefox Support document.

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anonymous wrote on Thursday, January 23, 2014:

My inconsistency lies with documents that were scanned to pdf from the same device. I’ve tried using the Foxit and Sumatra plug-ins (per the article’s instructions) with similar results. Anyone else experiencing this?

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tmccormi wrote on Thursday, January 23, 2014:

I think it would be worthwhile and not too difficult to option the method for viewing PDFs. The current model in the document viewer is to use imagemajik to convert it to a JPG for inline viewing. Could turn that off and let the browser default to native mime/type for PDF docs.

More difficult in the Patient->Reports where you are trying to assemble 1 document out of several different mime types.

–Tony

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fsgl wrote on Wednesday, March 19, 2014:

Have been experimenting in Linux Mint 16. Firefox in Linux behaves differently. More consistent results by using the default Document Viewer than with Adobe which came preloaded.

File->Preferences->Applications->Use Document Viewer (Default). In next dialog, Do this automatically with files like this from now on.

This works for .pdf files, not for text as with reports from Office Ally, which requires a text editor.