You're right Doron, it didn't occur to me that the images could be used in the background, but then I was thinking about images placed and intermingled with the content of the page (you can't do that with the page's background unless you know the precise configuration of your target machine down to the fonts they're using).

BTW, I tried with word97 and all I got was html of the text. No border in it.

The only way for you to have some control over the placement of these background images will be to set them as the backgrounds of tables with a single cell, and then place your tables with data within those other tables.

Otherwise you're likely to go nuts because layout control is very quirky in html.

Alex


>Hi Alex,
>
>You are not corect in here. I can use this image in HTML.
>I would place them as background images.
>You could test it by yourself. Create Word document with rectangle. Place
>text into this rectangle and then save the document as HTML. You would see
>that Word created image of your rectangle and place it into HTML document as
>background of your text.
>
>About images. Yes he you are right and I planned to stretch some short line if
>needed height and width
>
>No matter what I still need for a class for image creating, or find a good ActiveX.
>
>Regards,
>
>Doron
>
>
>>HI Doron,
>>
>>Can't imagine why you would need circles and boxes in an html report. If you're thinking of creating a gif with a box in order to place it around existing text, it won't work. Can't do that in html. You would need to use several lines and a table to achieve this effect.
>>
>>However, to get away with lines (and with boxes around text by joining four lines), you could create a single-pixel gif and stretch it horizontally or vertically via html code to get lines of any length you may want.
>>
>>Alex
>>
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I need to create GIF image for HTML purpose. Any ActiveX is there for that
>>>purpose?
>>>
>>>That image could be line, rectangle, round rectangle or oval with different
>>>types of filling and border. The reason for that is, I need to run a
>>>conversion of different reports to HTML and produce all necessary lines
>>>and shapes.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Doron