Add an image with transparency to Crystal Reports

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Ben Robbins picture Ben Robbins · May 11, 2009 · Viewed 36.8k times · Source

Is it really true that Crystal Reports does not support images that have transparency?

We are using it at work and the guy that does Crystal Reports told me it doesn't support transparency. I couldn't believe it so I've spent the last 20 minutes googling and think he might be right. This seems absolutely incredible in this day and age.

Can anyone please confirm whether or not CR supports transparency, and if so how you do it (we are not limited by the type of image to insert - png, gif etc).

For the record we are using CR version that comes with VS 2008 (version 10.5).

Answer

AR_Italy picture AR_Italy · Dec 29, 2010

CR doesn't support transparency but you can use a wmf image to solve your problem. I'm using CR 12 (2008), i need to put an image as signature (as a watermark) on another image.

Example:

Background_image.jpg Signature_image.jpg

Convert Signature_image.jpg into a wmf file using "Inkscape" (freeware).

In the report, we have "Background_image.jpg" and over it the "Signature_image.wmf" image, it works great!

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