Working With Images

[madcrystal]

I'm having much trouble understanding how Crystal works with images. Much like everything else, there seems to be intuition and then what Crystal developers decided to implement.

I'm trying to simply add a header image to a document. In Photoshop, I constructed a 8.5 inch by 1.5 inch header image. In Crystal, I set the top, left and right margins to zero to allow for the full width header. When I place the image as a jpg, there seems to be little rhyme or reason as to the size Crystal determines it is. If I add it via a bmp, the dimensions seem to carry through.

But if that was it, I wouldn't be posting! After adding the bmp, it sits snuggly on the page as intended. When viewing in preview mode or exporting to PDF, the document renders the header image just over the edge of the page (raaa!). I've tried knocking down the width just a hair but it then always leave a line along the edge of the PDF.

I wound up fading the edges to black and setting the background of the section to black, but this solution won't work all the time. Anyone have any solution or insight into WTF? Maybe just a friendly "I feel your pain"?

Sorry for the book.

 

[madcrystal]

I see how it is!

 

[Madawc]

If you've found a solution, it is polite to share it, for the benefit of anyone else who has the same problem later on.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 11.5 with SQL and Windows XP