Background picture for the whole page (incl. margins)

[aconit]

Dear experts,

I'm trying to create a report which is to be converted to a PDF-document.

The idea is that the document has a background picture of the size of an A4-page, but the data should still be represented with margins.

If I set the picture-property of a report, I get the picture printed in the print area and not on the whole page. If I make the margins smaller, I still get a white border caused by the margins + the records are written to the whole bottom of the first page if the report has two pages.

If I use an image control, then I need to reduce my margins again, so I get the same problem with the data, and I also get extra blank pages, because Access thinks that the size of the image is to big for a page, though I can't see it.

I'm looking forward to your replies. All ideas are welcome!

 

[DCrake]

Depending on the type of printer you are setting this up you may need to check what the unprintable area is for that printer. All printers have left, right, top and bottom gutters which are classed as unprintable areas. Even if you set the margins to zero it stilll abides by the gutter sizes.

David