# Reports' layout **URL:** \ **Category:** Day-to-Day Users\ **Created:** [June 30, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549 "2016-06-30T10:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/1 "2016-06-30T10:52:54Z")
**[irsptn32](https://sourceforge.net/u/irsptn32/)** wrote on [Thursday, June 30, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#0278): Hi there, I’m sorry to bother you with an obvious newbie’s question but I haven’t found anything precisely describing the solution of the issue I need to address. Where do I find the rules that are used to format the patient reports (PDFs needed to print them)? How do I change them? Is it possible to change the font, the spacing or the overall formatting of reports? For example, a random comma appears on my reports under the facility name on a row on its own, so how do I get rid of it? Thank you for your understanding and for your time, have a nice day! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/2 "2016-07-01T04:45:37Z")
**[visolveemr](https://sourceforge.net/u/visolveemr/)** wrote on [Friday, July 01, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#23ce): Hi Isacco, By default we do not have features to control the fonts and other formatting option. Manual customization through code should be done to get the reports in the required format. Generally, if there is no data to be printed, OpenEMR prints it with comma and I guess you are observing similar to it. Please share a screenshot of the concern you observe, we would try if it could be solved out in a simple way. Thanks, ViSolve OpenEMR Support Team [ViSolve](http://hc.visolve.com) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/3 "2016-07-03T11:11:15Z")
**[irsptn32](https://sourceforge.net/u/irsptn32/)** wrote on [Sunday, July 03, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#23ce/8cb8): Hi, thanks for your reply. I’d like to get rid of the comma just under the “facility” name (I’m a med student and I’m using OpenEMR to store data collected from patients in a clinical trial, so the facility name is my university’s) and above the patient’s name. Other than that, I would like to translate the form, adding a space between “PATIENT:” and the patient’s name, and so on (like the colon after “Patient Data”, “History Data”,…). I can work on a manual customization through code, if it is possible, because, given the enormous amount of data I have to log, and the conspicuous quantity of patients we are seeing, a lot of reports will be printed, so the effort is worth the result… I just don’t know where to look and how to intervene 🙂 Thank you very much for your time! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/4 "2016-07-03T12:25:53Z")
**[blankev](https://sourceforge.net/u/blankev/)** wrote on [Sunday, July 03, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#23ce/8cb8/1777): An effective way is: Administration =\> Other -\> Language =\> Change the “Constant” of your choice. To find “Patient:” enter %%%%%%%: Change"Patient:"" “without” space into "Patient: " =\> “with space” For every used version on different computers you need to include/chenge these new constants. Let me know if this works, since there might be another better solution . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/5 "2016-07-03T12:40:04Z")
**[irsptn32](https://sourceforge.net/u/irsptn32/)** wrote on [Sunday, July 03, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#23ce/8cb8/1777/2745): Thank you for your suggestion. I tried it and I was able to change “PATIENT” to “Patient”, but if I add a colon a double one appears on the report’s PDF. It appears the colon, and so the space after it, is not managed by the constant. Anyway, I can translate it (I prefer to keep the software in English since it’s easier to find the “directions” when I follow tutorials and guides which are written in English, so I’ll translate only what matters in printing, so thank you for this first input. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/6 "2016-07-03T13:29:37Z")
**[blankev](https://sourceforge.net/u/blankev/)** wrote on [Sunday, July 03, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#6cff): For the end space you might have to use something like an escape character. It is somewhere in the translation WIKI Pages. What also works a a dot “.” you hardly notice the difference between a dot or a space in real life. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/7 "2016-07-07T21:02:28Z")
**[epsdky](https://sourceforge.net/u/epsdky/)** wrote on [Thursday, July 07, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#7d14): Hello Isacco and Pieter, To separate the string “PATIENT:” from the patient name in patient reports a code change is needed in… /interface/patient\_file/report/custom\_report.php on line 490 (4.2.2) the element… ```auto xlt("PATIENT") . ':' ``` needs to change to… ```auto xlt("PATIENT") . ': ' ``` or if you like… ```auto xlt("Patient") . ': ' ``` As for the comma replace it on line 502 with… ```auto ``` line 502 becomes… ```auto
``` Now the comma only appears when there is an entry for state. Regards, epsdky. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/8 "2016-07-07T21:43:53Z")
**[blankev](https://sourceforge.net/u/blankev/)** wrote on [Thursday, July 07, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#7d14/9d4e): This indeed will do for this one spot. Nowfor me it is impossible to add a space in the translation table at the end of any word or after the Patient: …" is there something like an escape character that would allow to add a space at the end of a constant? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/9 "2016-07-08T21:33:03Z")
**[epsdky](https://sourceforge.net/u/epsdky/)** wrote on [Friday, July 08, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#5578): Hello Pieter, Isacco touched on this…for the situation with the patient report where the string “PATIENTS:” appears, in the code the string is initially two strings “PATIENTS” and “:” that are joined after “PATIENTS” is sent to the translation function. “:” is not translated so what comes after it cannot be influenced by the translation module. For situations like this your idea will not work. What about where the whole string is translated…looking at the translation function code I cannot see anthing that would support the idea of an escape sequence present at the end of a definition having any effect. However adjusting the definition string in the database might work…haven’t tried it yet. Regards, epsdky. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/reports-layout/4549/10 "2016-07-30T20:42:39Z")
**[irsptn32](https://sourceforge.net/u/irsptn32/)** wrote on [Saturday, July 30, 2016](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/ee372d8a/#d152): Hello there, I’m reporting about the problem, which seems solved after using the idea from epsdky. I thank everyone so much for their input. Does anyone know how to edit the prescriptions document, too? Where could it be located?