Simulate a Pre-Printed form

[JordanCN]

I have a package that uses Crystal XI as its report package. Their canned reports for invoices, packing lists, sales orders, etc are all designed for pre-printed forms which are expensive.

In the past I have usually edited each report and placed the nice logo on the header and drew boxes around the column heads and the lines down the colums, but every time they made a change to the .rpt file I would have to re-do the formats again.

Is there a way I can just use picture of the blank form and superimpose it into the .rpt file so it appear on whole page. The only thing I seem to be able to is put a graphic in a section.

 

[kenhamady]

You can scan the image and put the image in the page Header, then underlay that with the rest of the page. Haven't tried it myself so let us know if you get it to work and if it affects the performance of the report.

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[IdoMillet]

I've used that approach with my own automated invoices and it works fine. Use Preview to see/change field positioning relative to the background image.

hth,
- Ido

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[JordanCN]

Excellent. This works well.