Drawing lines and boxes

[taccea]

I have data for an insurance (HCFA) i'm printing.
I need to draw the undelying lines on the entire page, then overlay the data
on it.
How do I do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Taccea

[Salad]

taccea wrote:

I have data for an insurance (HCFA) i'm printing.
I need to draw the undelying lines on the entire page, then overlay the data
on it.
How do I do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Taccea

Scan it in and use as the form/reports background

[taccea]

this sounds like a better idea, how do I put it in after I have my scanned
image?

Thanks
Taccea
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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taccea wrote:

I have data for an insurance (HCFA) i'm printing.
I need to draw the undelying lines on the entire page, then overlay the data on it.
How do I do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Taccea

Scan it in and use as the form/reports background

[Rick Brandt]

"taccea" <ta****@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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this sounds like a better idea, how do I put it in after I have my scanned image?

It's actually relatively easy to draw lines and boxes using the LineDraw
method in the Page event of the report. Using that event your lines and
boxes can span across report sections.
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[Salad]

taccea wrote:

this sounds like a better idea, how do I put it in after I have my scanned
image?

Thanks
Taccea
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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taccea wrote:

I have data for an insurance (HCFA) i'm printing.
I need to draw the undelying lines on the entire page, then overlay the
data
on it.
How do I do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Taccea

Scan it in and use as the form/reports background

This should give you some pointers. Click Forms/New/FormWizard. Select
the table, add a couple of fields, and layout. You are then asked for
the Style...select clouds or International. Finish it up. Open up the
form to modify the design. Open the property sheet for the form and
click the Format tab. Scroll down. You'll see the picture options; the
file, whether to clip or strecth, embed, etc. You can change the file
to your graphic template file. You would then overlay the entry
sections with your fields in the table.

The same properties are in Reports. So the image would be the
background and overlay the output areas with your recordsource fields.

I saw an article on this shortly after MS Access 2.0 came out. If
people are used to these forms, then the input/output are what they come
to expect.

[MacDermott]

You can set the form's background to your scanned image, but I've had a
terrible time trying to place things correctly relative to the lines on the
image.
I've had much better luck adding an image control to display the scanned
image, then "sending it to back".

Remember, too, that scanned images are often quite large, and Access will
multiply the size of the bitmap several times, so if you do this much,
you're likely to find yourself with an enormous database.

HTH
- Turtle

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taccea wrote:

this sounds like a better idea, how do I put it in after I have my scanned image?

Thanks
Taccea
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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taccea wrote:

I have data for an insurance (HCFA) i'm printing.
I need to draw the undelying lines on the entire page, then overlay the

data

on it.
How do I do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Taccea
Scan it in and use as the form/reports background

This should give you some pointers. Click Forms/New/FormWizard. Select
the table, add a couple of fields, and layout. You are then asked for
the Style...select clouds or International. Finish it up. Open up the
form to modify the design. Open the property sheet for the form and
click the Format tab. Scroll down. You'll see the picture options; the
file, whether to clip or strecth, embed, etc. You can change the file
to your graphic template file. You would then overlay the entry
sections with your fields in the table.

The same properties are in Reports. So the image would be the
background and overlay the output areas with your recordsource fields.

I saw an article on this shortly after MS Access 2.0 came out. If
people are used to these forms, then the input/output are what they come
to expect.