Background picture for the whole page (incl. margins)

[nahkhiir]

Dear experts,

I'm trying to create a report which is to be converted to a PDF-document.

The idea is that the document has a background picture of the size of an A4-
page, but the data should still be represented with margins.

If I set the picture-property of a report, I get the picture printed in the
print area and not on the whole page. If I make the margins smaller, I still
get a white border caused by the margins + the records are written to the
whole bottom of the first page if the report has two pages.

If I use an image control, then I need to reduce my margins again, so I get
the same problem with the data, and I also get extra blank pages, because
Access thinks that the size of the image is to big for a page, though I can't
see it.

I'm looking forward to your replies. All ideas are welcome!

 

[Clifford Bass via AccessMonster.com]

Hi,

Choose a "printer" that allows for margins of 0 and set your margins to
0. Set your report width go the width of the paper. Increase the blank
space at the top of your report header and/or page header before any controls.
Likewise in the report footer expand it so there is an amount of blank space
after any controls. Move all of your controls to the right so that you
provide for a "margin" on the left. If you have both a report and a page
header, you will need to do some coding in the On Format event of the report
header section and/or page header section in order to prevent a large section
of blank space between the report header and the page header. What I might
do would be to include the page header stuff in the report header and make
the page header invisible on page 1 and visible on the remaining pages.

Hope that helps,

Clifford Bass