How to add transparent logo on access form?

[marijonas]

Hi, am trying to add a logo that is not round and therefore has some corners transparent in a form. I have tried with transparent gif, png, and made a pic with the same background as form, but it never gets as it should be. I get whiter or very dark areas that were transparent.
Is it possible to have transparent images on a form? I am using access 2003.

 

[Frink]

Hallo,

As far as I'm aware, you can't have transparent images in Access forms. Not familiar with Access 2003 though.
If you can't change the image to have the same background as the form, you could try splitting the image into thin strips to minimise the background. Would be a bit of a nightmare, but it might work.

- Frink

 

[marijonas]

Strange that access forms can't deal with transparent images. Actualy I match the background of the picture with the background of the form on the screen. However I see a big difference when I print the form out...

 

[fneily]

Don't know if your interested but here's a way to do watermarks in a report:

Create your logo as a watermark - Flash 5 is an easy program to do this. Then in design view of your Access report, in the Page Header section, position your watermark logo, or whatever, where you want it to appear. Click on the Page Header bar and open its property sheet. Then on the OnFormat event type Me.MoveLayout = False

 

[mph1]

Not sure what your form looks like or what the picture will be and the area it will cover. I think that fneily's suggestion of a watermark concept is a good one.

Suggestion - if the logo is to be the background you want to make sure that it dose not interfer with a user's ability to see other objects on the form. If it does you might end up defeating its purpose.


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