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Overlaying an insurance form onto a laser printed report
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>>By *create the form in the package*, do you really mean creating the form manually? Like creating tables, lines, boxes, the text, etc.? Or can you scan the existing form then use the package to import the scanned image?
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>We created our forms in the package; since what we were doing were some standardized forms, we created a template and dropped in some text and a logo before exporting out the macro. Doing this made each macro considerably smaller than a pure graphical image, not anywhere near as major an issue now with faster laser rendering engines and more RAM in the printer, but a major issue for us back when we started with 2MB on a Panasonic 4450i laser and 20+ form layouts. You could as easily take a scanned image (probably more easily) of adequate resolution and drop it in as a graphic in both FormWorx and InForms; I believe the current InForms works with TWAIN interface devices.

What I have done with some of our Gov't forms is scan them, drop the image on a report form in report designer (no header, no footer, no anything except a detail band). Then I overlay fields on the form as it appears on the report designer. Works great when there is no way you could possibly recreate some our bizarre forms that have a thousand little boxes on one page. Of course we could not do this in the past with earlier printers and less powerful computers.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA
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