Printing an overlay

[exodus1]

In Cobol, you can send to the printer 2 pages to print on top of each other. Can this be done in VFP? I am getting a .bmp from a graphics program which is a form and I am printing it out from the report writer, but now the user needs to feed it into the printer to print out the data. My question is if this can be done progromaticly?

THank You

 

[rgbean]

In the report designer, you can add a bitmap to the report. Depending on the size of the graphic, you may need to tweak the report. For some information on this technique and many other Report Tricks, consider downloading Cathy Pountney's Presentation (with source code) available at

http://www.frontier2000.com/presentations.htm.

She's currently working on a book to be published by Hentzenwerke (

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/)

that expands on this topic.

Rick

 

[chpicker]

The report writer doesn't really support this, but there is a way around it.

If the bitmap is big enough (and you can always enlarge the white space) you can put it in your Page Header band, even if it doesn't fit. This will not cause the page header band to enlarge itself to match, but will instead cause the bitmap to start at the top of the page and just propagate down.

I hope I explained it ok. I've done this myself, so I know it at least works in VFP 6...

Ian