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Mon, 27 March 2006 03:43

Eclipse User

Hi.

I would like to include the company logo, heading, etc, as the master
page header of the report. The company logo is made of simple text
elements with different fonts, sizes and colors. I can apply the fonts
and colors without problems, however I can't position the elements with
the desired spacing, for example using a grid layout the spacing between
rows is excessive. It is not possible to specify a negative margin
value, nor I can't find how to override the spacing. Setting a row
height smaller than the computed height has no effects.

I can't even find how to export the report over an existing pdf document
(or include the pdf document as the background of all pages). This would
solve the problem as I'm already doing this with iText.

How do you handle headed paper with BIRT ?

Bye

Re: Headed paper [message #148090 is a reply to message #148077]

Mon, 27 March 2006 04:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: r.budner.abg.com.pl

Marco Maccaferri napisał(a):
> Hi.
>
> I would like to include the company logo, heading, etc, as the master
> page header of the report. The company logo is made of simple text
> elements with different fonts, sizes and colors. I can apply the fonts
> and colors without problems, however I can't position the elements with
> the desired spacing, for example using a grid layout the spacing between
> rows is excessive. It is not possible to specify a negative margin
> value, nor I can't find how to override the spacing. Setting a row
> height smaller than the computed height has no effects.
>
> I can't even find how to export the report over an existing pdf document
> (or include the pdf document as the background of all pages). This would
> solve the problem as I'm already doing this with iText.
>
> How do you handle headed paper with BIRT ?
>
> Bye

You can use a Text element. You will be able then to provide your own
piece of HTML. If I were you, I would prepare an image of company logo
and use Image element on the report.

Re: Headed paper [message #148425 is a reply to message #148090]

Mon, 27 March 2006 07:12

Eclipse User

On 27/03/2006 11:33 Robbo wrote:

> You can use a Text element. You will be able then to provide your own
> piece of HTML.

Using the html text apparently works, at least in the designer preview.
However when the document is exported as PDF the output overlap other
elements (and seems that it can't embed the fonts). I think that the
engine can't calculate the sizes very well when the html code is used.

> If I were you, I would prepare an image of company logo
> and use Image element on the report.

Yes, but what about the output resolution ? The logo I'm using now is
very simple, but more complex logos are rendering very badly using the
screen resolutions.

Bye

Re: Headed paper [message #148673 is a reply to message #148425]

Mon, 27 March 2006 15:54

Eclipse User

hi. i had the same problem with overlappings between the headers and the
normal page when i've exported to pdf. the solution i've found is to
modify the dimensions of header/footer. for me it worked.

cristian

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