Adobe Acrobat, Word instead of Paperpport, GSview etc.

The reason somethings are pushed to PS instead of PDF is for speed. To push to PS is very fast, and GSView can easily view them. Also if you have a PS printer, you can print faster to the printer than any other possible printing method.



To push to PDF means it has to go through ghostscript to conver the PS to PDF .. an extra step. Then you have to load up the browser with the PDF plugin to view it .. another step. Annoyingly, Acrobat and the browser at times want to alert you of updates .. and so nothing appears to happen because they're displaying their update messages. These can be prevented by options, but it is still another step.



But PDF is the main document format for most things where you want to keep a copy ... as all of those PDFs are also sent to the server and kept as print images.



How many EMRs keep a print image of everything you print?



Of course it's easy enough for me to make it all PDF ... but who wants to sacrifice speed?



As for Word .. it's not something I use, and it's not available on Linux. I can't use Open Office because it lacks a COM interface.



PS: You are aware that many of the print options do include output to Word?

There isn't a great deal of need for using PaperPort with Synapse anymore.

You were hoping that anything that Synapse uses GSview for ... use Acrobat ?

You can send certain things to Word at certain times.

I like Send to Word as it makes things EDITABLE ... so You can touch things up ... etc.

Graham: send to Word has always been a popular thing. (myself, qilin, etc.)

What picture? URL?

Marius,

The screenshot might be confusing as it is 1 window on top of another.

For this to work, you must already have a "consult" finished. then when it is selected (or in view) click Print.