Print Daily Appointments WITHOUT gray background - solution

[Joseph]

Print Daily Appointments WITHOUT gray background

Since OpenDental programmers are dragging their feet in removing the gray background from Appointment Printout I implemented my own solution.

Step.1
Print the daily appointment to PDF file.
On windows PDFCreator is for free.

Download ImageMagick (it is free); I use Linux but it is available for windows as well.

Step 2. Run this command from a script, I use bash script on Linux but I'm sure you can use .bat file on Windows etc.

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convert -density 300 document.pdf -fuzz 10% -channel rgba -fill none -opaque "#d2d2d2" -opaque "#b8b8b8" daily_appointment.pdf

document.pdf - is a file with gray background
daily_appointment.pdf - is a converted document without gray background
-opaque "#d2d2d2" -opaque "#b8b8b8" are HEX gray colors. I opened the PDF document in gimp and read the HEX background colors.

If the fonts are choppy play with setting "-density 300" increase by 100 or 200 etc.
My bash script:

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#!/bin/sh

# line below get rid of gray shading in appintment screen print out from opendental and prints 5 copies to printer.
convert -density 300 document.pdf -fuzz 10% -channel rgba -fill none -opaque "#d2d2d2" -opaque "#b8b8b8" daily_appointment.pdf
lpr #5 daily_appointment.pdf

It save a bit on toner