Picture in Report

sabzam

Hi All,

Is it possible to insert an A4 Picture in the Invoice and Credit Memo as a background? In such a way that when it is printed it is actually as a whole page? The issue is with letterheads. When printing from a paper it is ok but when printing to pdf or sending a email it is quite a different situation.

Regards and Thanks,

FDickschat

When printing to a pdf use pdftk.exe to merge your printout with a watermark (background) after printing. Search mibuso for pdftk and also look here: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

sabzam

Hi,

For pdf printing we have no problem....... we can print documents one by one. On the other hand is it possible that when printing a batch of invoices or cr memos for example, prints are automatically printed to pdf with watermark istead of doing it one by one. i.e printing a batch automaticaaly to different pdf documents all at one with the watermark?

Regards,

FDickschat

You don't write which pdf solution you use. In most cases I'm using a simple pdf printer driver.

If you batch print invoices all these invoices will be printed into a single pdf file. The printer driver which creates the pdfs does not know when a new document is printed and when it needs to create a new pdf file. To solve that you basically have 3 options:

• Don't allow batch printing.
• Create a CU which handles the printout and prints docs 1 by 1 so that every invoice is in a separate file. With this option you can also set the No. of copies to 0 so that in the pdf there is only one print of then invoice and not several. You could also give the user the option to choose between print, email, fax and simple pdf creation.
• Handle everything in the report. Every time a new doc is printed close the file and create a new one. In this case you can not use a simple printer driver but need to use something that gives you an automation so that you can tell the automation to do what you want.

sabzam

Thanks for your help