Thanks Adrian for this- I've scratched my head on this several times, as the black box has appeared inconsistently - for no apparent reason, in PDF output and standard reports. Will try your fixes in my applications - thanks again,
Brad Davidson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Huessy Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:22 AM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Printing the big black square. Dear Larry and Emmitt I made similar experience like Larry. Printing to Printer =================== First I have hade only a logo on the reports there was no problem. Then I add a graphic in the detail section. At some PCs it was ok at some not: Sometimes the logo was black, sometimes the graphic in detail was black, sometimes both. All have had enough memory, used PCL5 for printing, same resolution, same manufacturer, bot not the same printermodel. We played arround with filetype and have now a combination which works: Logo: varimage (bmp) with properties: center, directdraw, stretch, visible Graphic: varimage (wmf) with properties: center, maintainaspectratio, stretch, visible Printing to PDF =============== Printing to PDF I could produce also black squares on reports without additional graphics. In PDF we detected, there have been two graphic-objects: the black square was in top of the normal logo, the correct logo behind the black. I was able to correct this by DISABLE property TRANSPARENT Regard Adrian > -----Original Message----- > From: Emmitt Dove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 19:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Printing the big black square. > > > Larry, > > I've had the problem with images used as watermarks on page > style bands. I > find that it is printer-dependent, and likely relates to > drivers. Printing > directly to the printer or from the screen produces the > problem, while > printing to a PDF and subsequently printing the PDF avoids > the problem. > > >I am beginning to get reports of the "big black square" > printing issue for RB7 > >applications. In my case, it is always the corporate logos > that I generally > >put at the top of each report page that cause the problem > (so, really, it's a > >little black square, not a big one). These are regular > image components into > >which I have loaded the content of a disk file (that is, the > images are store > >in the report). > > > >Some interesting facts: > > > >1. In some cases, a particular report always causes the > black square issue, > >when the same logo used on a similar by different report > does not. I even cut > >as pasted the image control from the good report to the bad > report, without > >effect. > > > >2. In one case, the client reports that, in a single run of > the report, some > >pages have the black square and some pages print the logo fine. > > > >3. Some clients never have the problem. > > > >Anyone have any thoughts? I'd hate to give up the graphic logos. > >-- > >Larry > > Emmitt Dove > Manager, DairyPak Business Systems > Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. > 40 Lindeman Drive > Trumbull, CT 06611 > (203) 673-2231 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
