Metacorder has a sophisticated PDF engine for creating sound reports, which uses HTML pages as a template for the sound report PDF layout. This method allows any user with a web design application to fully customise the Metacorder sound reports.

To Customise the layout, duplicate one of the folders (layouts) in the 'Print Layouts' folder (which must be next to the Metacorder application bundle). Rename it with your layout name, and then edit the 'index.html' file inside. You can add any graphics you like, by including them in the layout folder, and in your index.html. The way Metacorder uses the HTML layout is based on the use of 2 HTML Comments, labelled 'BODYSTART' and 'BODYEND'. Basically, anything before 'BODYSTART' is presented as a header, and anything below 'BODYEND' as a footer. The HTML in between these comments is the 'body' of single 'line' of script. This section will be repeated over and over for each Metacorder script line.

Within the text of the HTML file, you will see 'tags' such as [!scene!] and [!take!]. These are the placeholders in the line, which will be replaced with the actual data when the document is printed. The list of supported tags is currently:

Header / Footer
[!productiontitle!]
[!mixername!]
[!contactdetails!]
[!microphones!]
[!roll!] (from Line 1)
[!samplerate!] (from Line 1)
[!bitdepth!] (from Line 1)
[!tcfps!] (from Line 1)
[!reflevel!]
[!date!]
[!pagenumber!]
[!time!]

Body
[!scene!]
[!take!]
[!note!]
[!timest!]
[!circle!]
[!in01!] - Input Channel Name
[!in02!]
...........and all channels
[!in19!]