[AccessD] Weird problem - ugly logo in reports

John Clark John.Clark at niagaracounty.com
Tue Apr 27 09:51:51 CDT 2010


I've got something to run by y'all, which seems even too strange to ask...but, I've been looking into it for a bit now, and I'm not getting anywhere.
 
I recently inherited a program, which is used by a fellow county, to keep track of something we do. The user department prints some reports, and one of the items they need to print is a certificate. What this does currently is open MS Word and print the cert, but it doesn't seem to be connected in any way and just basically opens the last cert in Word, and they retype the pertinent data, which is just about 4 things (i.e. Name, SSN, Address, and maybe one or two more things). 
 
OK, here's the thing...obviously...to me anyhow...it doesn't seem very "proper" to open up Word and have to type out anything...the data should just "happen" automagically. So, I wanted to setup the document to be a merge (I think). But, after gaining advice from many of you people, I don't think that is worthy of "plan A" either, because this seems to be version specific and I don't want to worry about that...believe me, in this place, people don't plan things out and it WILL be a problem in the future.
 
So, I decided to go about this the same way I did w/my last program. Again, guided by several on this list, I recreated the form I needed, w/in Access, and just did it as an Access report. Everything brought together at run-time and all self contained.
 
But, here is why I am asking for input...
 
This form has our letterhead w/in it...just a logo and address, pretty much. No problem, I'll just add it to the report's design. But, it looks terrible! The same seal that I have in word, looks awful in Access. I tried many different versions of our county seal, and they all look terrible in an Access report.
 
Does anyone have any insight on why exactly this is the case?
 
BTW, it is 2007 that I am using for this.
 
Thanks for any enlightenment!
 
J Clark



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