Prescription Pad Maker (Print-Ready, Bilingual)

About the Prescription Pad Maker (Print-Ready, Bilingual)

Design a prescription pad in your own name: your name, degrees, registration number and council — always printed — your clinic, phone, timings and logo, a patient line (name, age, sex, date and fields of your own, all blank lines to write on), the ℞ symbol, a signature line and a footer. Choose A5, A4, half A4 across, A6, Half Letter, Letter or a custom size and one of three templates.

For a bilingual header, type your lines in a second language: Hindi, Marathi and other languages written in Devanagari are set as sharp vector text with the bundled Noto Sans Devanagari font, shaped so conjuncts and vowel signs come out right; Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu and others are drawn by your device’s own fonts as 1,200 dpi images. Make a press-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks for a print shop, or sheets of 2 or 4 pads for your own printer, with a calibration page to line the print up with pre-cut pad paper. Without a pass the pad shows as a free preview with its PDFs locked. Everything is made in your browser.

Common uses

• A new clinic’s first prescription pads, without paying for a design.
• Bilingual pads in English and the patients’ language.
• Re-printing pads after a change of address, timings or qualifications.
• Pads printed in small batches on a clinic printer instead of large print runs.

What Indian rules say a prescription shows

In India, the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, published by the National Medical Commission, say:

• every physician displays the registration number given by the State Medical Council or the MCI in the clinic and on all prescriptions, certificates and money receipts given to patients (clause 1.4.1);
• only recognised medical degrees, and certificates, diplomas, memberships or honours that confer professional knowledge, go after the name (clause 1.4.2);
• the prescription letterhead shows the doctor’s name and designation in full with the registration particulars (clause 3.7.2);
• prescription papers carry the same details as the clinic’s sign board: name, qualifications, titles, speciality and registration number with the name of the State Medical Council (clause 7.13);
• a prescription makes clear when the physician dispensed any medicine himself or herself (clause 3.7.1) — write that on the pad when it applies;
• printing a photograph of yourself, or other publicity material, on a letterhead counts as self-advertisement (clause 6.1.2) — so use the logo space for a clinic emblem, never a photo of yourself.

That is why this tool always prints the registration line and stamps SAMPLE until it is filled in. What else your pad may show (address, timings, phone) and whether newer rules apply to you is for your council to say: check with it. Other countries have their own rules, and some medicines need official or tamper-resistant forms — this tool makes ordinary printed pads, not those.

Printing: a shop or your own printer

• Press-ready PDF: one pad per page with 3 mm or 0.125 in of bleed (backgrounds run past the edge so no white line shows after cutting), optional crop marks, and the PDF’s TrimBox and BleedBox set for the shop’s software. Colours are RGB; ask the shop whether it wants CMYK.
• Home-print PDF: 2 A5 or Half Letter pads per sheet, or 4 A6 or Quarter Letter pads, side by side with dashed cut lines, up to 50 sheets in one file. Print at 100 % / Actual size. Home printers cannot print the last few millimetres of the paper, so a colour band at the edge gets a thin white margin.
• Pre-cut pad paper: choose “Paper of the pad’s size” and set the same custom paper size in your printer’s settings. Print the calibration page, fold it in half both ways, and measure how far the printed cross is from the folds; enter that as the offset and every pad lines up. The offset is kept for that paper in this browser.

Languages and fonts

English, and other languages in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, are real, selectable text in the font you choose (Noto Sans, Inter, Montserrat or Poppins, all under the SIL Open Font License), embedded in the PDF. Devanagari lines (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Konkani, Maithili) are shaped in your browser with Noto Sans Devanagari and drawn as vector outlines, so the shop needs no font and conjuncts such as क्ष, त्र and the reph print correctly. Lines in Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Urdu and Arabic use your device’s own fonts and go into the PDF as images of 1,200 dpi (a little less for a line longer than about 17 cm): sharp in print, but not editable — check them in the preview.

Limitations

• MySmartCoPilot adds no medical wording: no drug names, doses, advice or certificates. The pad is a layout for your own handwriting.
• No signature picture can be added and no date is printed: the signature and the date are blank lines.
• There is no PNG or “e-prescription” export, and no medical, sick-leave or fitness certificate templates.
• Colours are RGB. The tool does not make CMYK or spot-colour (Pantone) files.
• Lines in scripts without a bundled font depend on your device’s fonts; if the preview shows boxes instead of letters, use another device or browser.

Privacy

Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot. Downloads the pad’s fonts from this site the first time you use them; your details never leave your device.