Re: Using a picture (Form Template) as background in a report?

MLH wrote: 
Salad, try this...

Go to the
http://www.ncdot.org/dmv/forms/licensetheft/download/LT260.pdf
link. You'll see a PDF image of an NCDMV form. Print it out. Measure
the area
occupied by text. You'll see that the text occupies an area measuring
close
to 7" wide by 9" tall. Measure the LRTB margins closely. You'll see
that they
are .75" and the bottom is 1.25".

My PDF reader has an image select tool that works fine (Adobe PDF
reader).


Select ONLY that 9x7 area. Everything outside your selection box
should be clear white space. Rite
clik inside your selection box and choose "copy". Open up MS Paint and
paste it in there. Save it as
a jpeg. Now, to Access. I'm using A97. Dunno what you are using. Would
be nice if you could do it
in A97 just for giggles.

Open a new report. Click File, Page Setup and set all margins to .75"
except the bottom. Set it to 1.25"
Get rid of the report header/footer. Size the Detail section to 7"
wide and 9" high. Enter the file you
saved for the report's Picture property setting.  Picture Type:
Embedded, Picture Size Mode: Stretch.

Does it appear to you that the top .25" or so of the image is cut off?
I'm talking about in design mode.
It does for me. When I print preview or actually print, all is
visible. Its as if, in design mode, the picture
shifted up about 1/4". If I place my fields on the image as I see it
in design mode, when I print the
report, they are all too high - and yes, they are about 1/4" too high.
I think if I drop them all down
about 1/4", the data will appear in the desired positions in the
actual printout. It was a bear getting
it all that close. This is not the most elegant solution, but it does
offer consistency of printed output.
You may have to adjust the position of a few controls in design view
to 'massage' them into place.
But once done, its done for good. In design view, the controls will
appear out of place. But they'll
fall exactly where you want them on your printouts.

Thanks. I will check out your suggestions. Yes, this all may be due to the margins of the printer, etc. It's funny that MS offers a picture, (back in Access 2.0 was out there was a story about using an IRS 1040 form as the input background on a form in Access Advisor) and not have the print match the field locations. Maybe they'll have "anchored" the pictures in the the new upcoming Access 12.
.

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