I have a client that wants a report with a large background image that covers the entire page. This background image has a bottom border of 2 inches.

When I build the report, is there a method for preventing my report data from overwriting the bottom 2 inches of the page.

My page size is the standard 8.5 x 11 and the background image fills this entire space.

I have tried adding the page footer of 2 inches; however, crystal cuts off my background image.

Can anyone provide a solution?

Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the suggestion. The image is 8.75" by 11.25" (I have a larger page size set to accomodate for this because the report will be printed on a press and manually cut to size so that the image bleeds all the way to the edges).

I've been working with underlay settings; however, setting a 2" footer clips the underlay image.

I could possibly split the background image in half, making the underlay image 10.25" and setting the footer to be the bottom 2" of the image. This would be ok, but it is near impossible to get the alignment to work properly, plus, there is a tiny gap between the page and footer which causes the image to look broken when printed.

I've resorted to placing the entire image in the pageheader and setting it to underlay. Then, I count records displayed in the report and force page breaks so that I do not write records over the bottom 2". This would be a simple solution if some fields were not set to "Can Grow". Alas, I need dynamic fields, so the problem is much more complicated.

I have a working prototype, but spending 8 hours on a report to do something that should be so simple is frustrating.

I suppose I'll live with the problem for now - at least until I begin to evaluate other reporting packages that I can use with .NET.