Printing with an overlay

[strangeryet]

Is it possible in VB to take a report from a .txt file and create another .txt file including an overlay?
In other words, when we print this report it is printed on preprinted paper. Is it possible to take an image of the preprint and create a new file which looks like the printed report? How can this be done?

Thanks

 

[jebenson]

What I have done in a similar situation is open the form image in a PictureBox and then write my data "on top" of that image. It takes a LOT of playing around with the printing locations to get everything to line up. You can then sent the PictureBox's contents to the printer, or to a pdf or whatever.



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[Swi]

You could use VB's Datareport and insert an image as your background and then use a ADO disconnected recordset as your recordsource to print the text.

Swi

 

[strangeryet]

Thanks for your help. I was hoping to do this in a Vb job that would pretty much do hundreds of these in a loop.
The datareport and picturebox ideas...can this behandle 'behind the scenes' in VB?

Thanks

 

[strangeryet]

Also, how do you write 'on top' of the picture box?
(Create text boxes over it?)
And then how do you print the contents of the picture box?

Thanks

 

[Swi]

Yes, you don't even need to display the datareport. Just use the PrintReport method of the datareport instead of showing it.

Insert the picture in the data report using the ReportImg tool. You then add you text boxes in the appropriate places and right click on the images and select Send to Back. This should work.

Swi