Backgrounds

[The Mad Jammer]

Can one put graphics or watermarks on a layout to act as a background on the body or header or footer?

Thanks

The Mad Jammer

And then...there was nothing

[Razumovsky]

Yes,at least 2 methods:

you can directly paste them onto the layout, or place a global container field as the background. Just make sure that they are arranged as "send to back" and that the fields overlaying them are transparent.

-Raz

[TyTech Solutions]

Ok,

So, now the pickle is, if you have a fancy report (2-3 subsummaries) and you have a nice 8.5x11 backround watermark image on the layout, how do you get it to print that picture on ALL the pages, not just the 1st one?

I can't get the image to "span" multiple pages on a report.

:-(

-TyTech

[-Queue-]

Check out Bob Weaver's spiffy subsummary trick. I'm not sure if it will help you immediately. But it might give you an idea.

[TyTech Solutions]

Ok,

I figured it out.

The report had both Title and regular headers and footers.

The trick was to place the large graphic on the layout TWICE.

Once with the top of the graphic anchored in the TITLE HEADER and the 2nd graphic with it's top edge within the regular HEADER section.

Push the graphic to the background with "Send to Back" in the Arrange menu and POOF!

We have a winner!

Very cool.

Hope this helps someone else looking for watermark techniques in FMP!

-Ty