>>It appears that watermarks are not real simple in the VFP report writer, even in 9. If I put one in the page header, it makes the page header become quite large (larger than it needs to be for the data, but large enough for the watermark). In other words, the watermark is not spanning bands. I'd just like a one or two word watermark placed diagonally an spanning most of the page from lower left to upper right. Perhaps there's a trick I've not discovered. Any suggestions?
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>Cathy Pountney shows how to create watermark in
What's New in the Visual FoxPro 9.0 Report WriterThanks, Sergey and Naomi and Cesar. As far as I can tell, placing the watermark as suggested in Cathy's article does not work as advertised. I tried various settings, but it caused the page header band to expand beyond the required height.
I ended up using a suggestion from Bo Durban which prints the watermark correctly and lets me control opacity.
From Bo:
Use the GDIPlusX library, there is a sample in the download:
http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1711Look at: samples\report_logowatermark_cool.prg