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Pure FYI background: no problem here. To overprint full-page PDF document pages within an RBASE report, first convert the PDF page files to JPG files. Reference the JPG file in a Variable Image Control stretched wall-to-wall within a Page Style Band set statically to the full printable extents of the report page ( all margins = 0.25 inch ). Walk the JPG file list in code like you would any other, printing over the embedded image with Report Header, Footer and Detail bands. Child's play. The Google-world of conversion packages is a time-sink, but I did find a very workable Russian converter with respectable GUI and command line capabilities: 'Total PDF Converter'. At $55.90, the business version weighs in at just about the product field's median price Documentation ranges from awful to AWOL, but the GUI is intuitive. If you know DOS the command line is a snap; but it helps to replace the Windows CMD window with a command shell like 'Take Command' to work comfortably with long, barely documented parameter strings. Took about one half hour to install and figure things out, then converted into perfect JPGs at a rate of about two hundred fifty pages per minute. Done! Multi-page documents are converted into individually numbered page files with one switch, with a file-naming template of your devise allowing retention of their "document" identity ( e.g. "Humpty.1, Humpty.2 ... Humpty.n" ). If anyone is interested in the mechanics of assembling the report, let me know. I'll be happy to report progress. Yours, Bruce Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. eCondoMetrics 909.238.9012 cell
