Advice for file formats for importing images to sheets

[jdub]

Hi,

I have some patient forms designed in Openoffice Draw. What I would like to do is import each form into a sheet as a static image, then just put some data entry boxes into the sheet in the appropriate places to have digital patient forms. I can do all this, but when I print out the sheet the quality is poor with blurry, rough edges to the text.

Printing from Openoffice Draw works fine, exporting that file to a pdf and printing looks fine, exporting to a .gif and printing looks fine. It is only when I import the .gif into OD and then print from there that quality is an issue. I have been trying different file formats and export resolutions, but haven't been able to come up with anything that works well. Does anyone else have any advice for this?

Thanks,
Jack

[jsalmon]

What version of Open Dental are you using? In older version we would cut the quality of images on sheets down a lot to make them print quickly and take up less space. We made a bug fix back in v15.1.15 "Sheet printing, extremely large static images with high dpi were printing blurry." which might help you out.
http://opendentalsoft.com:1942/ODBugTra ... sions.aspx