ASMART is now providing a free ASCII report printing utility

Click here to download now (351K)

- Runs under Win 95 or NT 4.0 -

Problem 1: OK, so you want to transcribe medical transcription and save your files as ASCII text. But, you notice that when you want to open the files later to print them, you have to manually reset the font and font size you transcribed them in so that the page breaks line up correctly. What a pain!

Problem 2: You want to batch print hundreds of ASCII report files at once without having to open each one up and print them one at a time.

Problem 3: You want to remotely deliver ASCII report files to a client and have them print them. You want an easy-to-use utility that requires little or no training to use.

Solution: ASMART's ASCII report printer

ASCII report printer is a custom designed program that automates the processing and printing of your reports. Without the ASCII report printer, you would have to manually load each report file into a word processor, format the report and then print it. The ASCII report printer totally automates this process.

The ASCII report printer is designed to be used with ASCII text files (Windows ANSI text files work fine too) and is provided to you courtesy of the Association for the Sensible Method of Acquiring Rates for Transcription (ASMART).

Using the ASCII report printer is simple. Report files are automatically sorted into any number of user-definable categories so all files need not be printed all at once. The printing process automatically launches a built in ASCII text printer. When the files are finished printing, they are automatically archived. During the printing process, the following can be automatically done:

• Automatic paragraph widow detection and fixing.
• Page header/continued footer can be printed.
• Reports can be strung one after the other so that more than one report can fit on a single page (useful for printing many small reports such as office visits for clinics).
• Anywhere the phrase "<page break>" appears in a report, there will be a page break inserted in the report.
• You can print out a summary of all reports that will be printed (can be used as a delivery invoice).
• In addition, each report type can have a custom print font and size, page size, margins, and printer destination defined.

Full source code for the ASCII report printer program will be posted here soon.

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