Jarnal to sign PDFs

Version from 23:39, 2 Oct 2009

After you submit an Acroform, there is now a new link that appears to allow you to download the just submitted Acroform as a flattened PDF ( no more interactive fields ) into Jarnal.  Using Jarnal you can ink over the PDF and save it back to the server. 

To do this, you need to have an active authenticated browser session available, and there is a link to allow you to open up a new session without losing the Jarnal link.

When you click on the Jarnal link, a little file is sent to your browser of mime-type application/jarnal-meta.  Your browser will not know what to do with this, and in Firefox it will offer to download it or allow you to select an application to open it.  It will also think the file type is "RSP".

You need to create a jarnalweb.cmd file in your Jarnal directory ( usually in c:\emr\client\jarnal ), and this simply has the following contents

java -Xmx256m -jar c:\emr\client\jarnal\jarnal.jar -m %1 

You will need to change that to match the location of your Jarnal files.

So, you need to tell Firefox that for content type "RSP file" to "Use jarnalweb.cmd".  You can also configure this by hand in the Firefox Tools/Options/Application menu.  This menu only allows you to browse for .exe type files and not .cmd so you will have to browse to the correct directory and then type in the jarnalweb.cmd into the box.

Note that Chrome does not allow you to set the mime-types so this will not work with Chrome.

And how does it work?  Firefox downloads the Jarnal metafile that is sent, and stores it in a temp directory.  It will then invoke the jarnalweb.cmd batch file on this metafile.  Jarnal reads the metafile and then loads the PDF from the web portal.  The metafile also has instructions on how Jarnal is to do a network save, and this is to a RSP script which then copies the inked PDF into the cache-listener directory.

NB: Jarnal of course being a Java application requires the Java runtime engine installed.  It can be installed from Sun's website.

Current version

After you submit an Acroform, there is now a new link that appears to allow you to download the just submitted Acroform as a flattened PDF ( no more interactive fields ) into Jarnal.  Using Jarnal you can ink over the PDF and save it back to the server. 

To do this, you need to have an active authenticated browser session available, and there is a link to allow you to open up a new session without losing the Jarnal link.

When you click on the Jarnal link, a little file is sent to your browser of mime-type application/jarnal-meta.  Your browser will not know what to do with this, and in Firefox it will offer to download it or allow you to select an application to open it.  It will also think the file type is "RSP".

You need to create a jarnalweb.cmd file in your Jarnal directory ( usually in c:\emr\client\jarnal ), and this simply has the following contents

java -Xmx256m -jar c:\emr\client\jarnal\jarnal.jar -m %1 

You will need to change that to match the location of your Jarnal files.

So, you need to tell Firefox that for content type "RSP file" to "Use jarnalweb.cmd".  You can also configure this by hand in the Firefox Tools/Options/Application menu.  This menu only allows you to browse for .exe type files and not .cmd so you will have to browse to the correct directory and then type in the jarnalweb.cmd into the box.

Note that Chrome does not allow you to set the mime-types so this will not work with Chrome.

And how does it work?  Firefox downloads the Jarnal metafile that is sent, and stores it in a temp directory.  It will then invoke the jarnalweb.cmd batch file on this metafile.  Jarnal reads the metafile and then loads the PDF from the web portal.  The metafile also has instructions on how Jarnal is to do a network save, and this is to a RSP script which then copies the inked PDF into the cache-listener directory.

NB: Jarnal of course being a Java application requires the Java runtime engine installed.  It can be installed from Sun's website.

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