My court reporters submit their finished (not rough) work in PDF format, not ASCII or .txt files. If they do not have a PDF printer, there is a free one available for download at www.CutePDF.com. You will find step-by-step instructions on how to use it later on down this page.
Upon receipt of the job, I will contact you to confirm and to discuss any special details. Upon completion, I will email the PDF back to you and you should see both red and yellow markings on your corrected PDF. All pages included in your corrected PDF will have corrections or notes of some kind. I only send you annotated pages.
Here are the step-by-step instructions that have worked for all of my reporters (even the ones who swore they couldn’t do it!) I promise you, it is NOT HARD at all.
1) Click the download link. www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
2) Install following the prompts.
3) You may need to restart. You may not, though.
4) Inside your software, with a transcript open, go to Print.
5) Where you would normally select a printer to print on paper, click the drop-down or scroll through to locate CutePDF Writer, and select it.
6) Click Print.
7) It should prompt you where you want to save the file. You can choose your desktop, your My Documents, or wherever you like.
8) E-mail me the newly created PDF file, exactly the way you would an ASCII. It attaches to e-mails in just the same way.
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Keep in mind a scopist does not proofread to a final draft, and a proofreader is not a scopist. These are two different jobs meant to be completed by two separate people. The reporter, scopist, and proofreader must work together as a team to create the most error-free transcripts possible.