>To Anyone who can help
>
>Is it possible to print characters in a set position on a report irrespective of detail bands, headers, footers etc. We have a client who needs to print OMR marks (small lines on the left side of the page in a set position on every page)
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>Many thanks for any help on this

For this kind of tasks I developed 'CodeRep' reporting engine which
is set of classes for writing fully featured reports in code
to XLS,PDF,HTML,TXT etc.

So task like this can be done very precisely in code without
pushing report designer beyond it's limits.

But report has to be done via PDF!

Code/Command to accomplish your task looks something ilke this ;

.draw_line(nTop,nLeft,nDown,nRight,nLineWidt)

or you can insert bitmap in given position.


Note***
Pdf format is implemented by utilizing PDFL library from www.eqeus.com
which u must purchase if you want to use PDF option (Price 99USD)

'CodeRep' itself is free and you can get it here in downloads.

Rgds+