Re: HOWTO: Watermarks???

Hi Jason!
--- jason_hutchens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I really need to put a watermark on my reports (i.e. some text that 
> floats behind everything else); I've tried everything to no avail. 
> Floating text that's positioned behind everything, a floating image, 
> nothing works. Does anyone know how to do this? Mucho appreciado ;^)

As much as I hate to admit it, I don't think QR allows watermarks. 
Here is why:  The QR canvas is where each detail line, summary line,
etc is laid down.  Therefore the trick is to print something on the
canvas before it goes to the print queue.  I can't seem to find any
event that lets you overide what QR has painted earlier.  If you try to
do it before the page is painted, QR ignores what you tried to put
down.  This seems to happen even if there is only one line at the top
of the page...:-(

I think you will have to create your report manually in order to use
watermarks.  The key is to use light gray color to create the watermark
effect.  Here is some sample code you can use to get the watermark
effect:

with Printer do
  begin
   BeginDoc;
   Canvas.Font.Color := TColor(clLtGray);
   Canvas.Font.Name := 'Arial';
   Canvas.Font.Size := 96;
   Canvas.Font.Style := [fsBold];
   Canvas.TextOut(100,100, 'TEST');
   EndDoc;
  end;

Hope this helps,



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Tom Nesler

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