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Image Scaling in reports

rbuserrbuser
edited March 2007 in General
?Hello,

we have a report where the scalling of images is causing a real issue.
Basically there are letters (stored in a database) and other scanned
documents that we have to print on a page of the report. The docs are
originally 8.5x11 - and need to print on a 8.25x10 inch report section.

the issue is that the images when printed are in somc cases almost
unreadable. That is if the stretch property is set to true. If it is
not - the image ends up being compressed (scaled) so much that any text
on it is almost unreadable.

Any thoughts as to how to deal with this issue? Has anyone out there
encountered a similar problem.

Bradley Macdonald
bradley_AT_telus_DOT_net

G. Bradley MacDonald

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Comments

  • nicociziknicocizik
    edited March 2007
    Hi Bradley,

    Which version of ReportBuilder are you using? As a test, try setting the
    DirectDraw property of the image to True and see if the quality improves.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • rbuserrbuser
    edited March 2007
    Hi Nico,
    I work with Bradley. The version we are using is 9.02. I notice a Version
    10.05. Is that any better?

    Thanks

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  • nicociziknicocizik
    edited March 2007
    Hi,

    This is not a known issue with RB 9.02. Have you tried setting the
    DirectDraw property to True? Are you stretching the image? If so, not that
    ReportBuilder was not designed to manipulate images. If you need to stretch
    or shrink an image that has fine details, you may need to do so in an image
    suite such as photoshop before adding it to a report. If you would like you
    can send a small example of the problem in .zip format and I can test it
    here with RB 10.05 for you. Send the example to
    support@digital-metaphors.com.

    --
    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • rbuserrbuser
    edited March 2007
    Hi,
    Thanks for your reply. Yes, it is the DirectDraw property. It needed to
    be set to True. The problem is only on preview. Printing was fine (and
    the same) for both DirectDraw set to True and False.

    Thanks again.

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