>>>>>I want to draw a big X on some pages of my report. I made a black and white .bmp, then copied it with a .msk extension, like you do for forms. The mask didn't work. The picture of the X covers most of the controls on the report. How do I make the X?
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>>>>like printing void on a check? maybe use light gray instead of black in the bmp
>>>The white areas of the .bmp are covering up other controls. I can just print "Removed" in giant letters, but I told them I could make an X, which is what they asked for.
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>>strange. i'll try it and see what i come up with...
>I might add that if I use the letter X, I'm limited to size 127 points in VFP3.0. That doesn't really X out the whole page the way they want. I suppose this is another case where we are hampered by the fact that report controls are not real objects. Or perhaps it's some other reason why picture masks don't work and diagonal lines are unavailable?

If you work with a BMP in reports, no MSK is needed. Just make sure that the BMP picture is "Sent to Back", in other words is laying behind all other objects and that the other objects are all Transparent.
HTH
Sorin