Background images / watermarks

[Warbuckle]

Good Day all,

Reason for my inquiry,

I am building a business app for a transportation company, one of the "reports" is based on a 5.5w x 8.5h "Invoice form" that they have already have developed and are using.

The data entry form is easy enough, just has to look similar to the existing invoice report they are finishing on a typewriter, the tedious part is constructing the actual invoice report they will be using and then having it print to a dot matrix printer (3 ply carbon paper).

So, instead of going nuts trying to copy / size / align the invoice into my "report" I have scanned an image of their invoice and embedded it as a background pic to save all the hassle trying to align / size the various fields.............slowly getting there. Fill in the fields and then delete the background pic.

Has anyone else done something similar?, or found a "faster" easier method?...........



tia
Bill

 

[neileg]

So what's wrong with trial and error, using a ruler, wasting 143 copies of the invoice stationery and the other pain that we all go through?

 

[Warbuckle]

Ah......................lol....................18 hours of pulling my dwindling hair out perhaps...........hehe, and a 3 day deadline for a demo with 3 other companies in the wings........................Hmmmmm..............perhaps I should be working now..............


Regards