The advice is pretty good, "don't do this unless you have to."
My clients have shipped a quarter-million PDFs with data merged from a database app. so I've given this a bit of thought.
Using an image as a background is the worst possible solution short of writing out the receipts by hand and postal-mailing them.
The image is large, it's usually poorly focused, it's rarely well-aligned and it will look like poo when printed at the other end.
Rather than mix analog (the scanned image) and digital content, you can use the VFP report writer, original hi-res logos, and a PDF printer to put out clean text and high-resolution graphics.
Or you could redesign the form in another tool, like Word or LibreOffice or Draw and convert it to a data form with CutePDF Professional and merge data into the PDF with Adobe's (expensive) tools or something like pdftk (free but more complex). That's a LOT more work, and I don't recommend it, unless there's some reason you can't use VFP and/or XFRX or Foxy. ( I had to go this way because app was PHP, not Fox)
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:53 AM Rafael Copquin rafael.copquin@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps I was not very clear.
I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image. I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser printer
I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it fit in the page with the right shape.
Rafael
El vie., 14 sept. 2018 a las 6:01, Alan Bourke (alanpbourke@fastmail.fm) escribió:
Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required, reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or whatever?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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