is this possible?

J

Joe

In ms Access, I have forms in which I have inserted dimensional drawings as
..jpg images. I have then inserted text boxes and labels into various
locations in the image which correspond to the dimensions.
My problem is when I print the form I can't seem to get it to print large
enough to see well. Is there a way to stretch the size of the entire form so
that it fits to the printable area of an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of paper?
If this is not possible is it possible to do basically the same thing using
Word to act as a form, insert an image on the word document and then link it
to access and do a mail merge to print the whole thing at full size? When I
tried it I could not get the fields to become part of my image object. Is
there a way to embed the image such that it allows you to place objects on
top of it?
Thanks,
Joe
 
D

DL

How are you printing this form?
As far as I'm aware if the Form is open & you select print, the result will
be the Access desktop window

Printing in Access should ideally be done from a created report.
 
J

Joe

I have the form "print setup" properties defined to center the form on the
page and then have a command button on the form that uses the docmd.printout
method.

I have it figured out now. What I did was basically copy the form image
and all to the report detail section and then fiddled with it to fit the page.

Thanks for your time. If you can think of another way to do it I'm all ears
but my immediate need has been solved so don't mess with this issue if you
have something else to do.

Joe
 
J

Joe

That was how I did it. I basically copied the content of the form to the
detail section of the report. The problem I had with this originally was
that I could not modify my image such that it would allow the fields to show
through the image. Once I figure out how to do in the form the same concept
worked for the report. I wanted the report to be in landscape and had to
scale my images to fit a full size sheet of paper. There was some distortion
but the concept worked so I'm happy with it.
Thanks again for your help.
Joe
 
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