Open up PowerPoint and copy or insert your image into a new PowerPoint file. If you don’t have a graphics program that will convert your image to WMF or EMF then you’re still in luck if you have MS Office. WMF & EMF files are supported image types in Crystal Reports and can also have transparent backgrounds work in your reports. Report Header) where you want the image to appear and choose Section Expert.Ģ – Press the Insert button and then press the Up arrow to move the new section up one level.ģ – Select Underlay following sections for this new section.Ĥ – Insert your image into this new section. The following steps can be employed to fake having transparent images in your report.ġ – Right click on the Section Name (e.g. You still need to use images that are supported types in Crystal Reports for this method to work. This method does not use transparency, but is a workaround that is simple to use. Here are the workarounds that you can use to have images with transparent backgrounds in your reports. However, transparent backgrounds are not supported for most of these image types.
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Windows Metafiles (both WMF and the newer enhanced metafile format). Crystal Reports supports these pixel-based image formats:Īs well, Crystal Reports supports this vector-based image format: You can insert a number of different types of static OLE objects into your report. If you open your online help in Crystal Reports and Search for Image, the Working With Static OLE Objects link will take you to the list of supported image types. This blog post goes through several of those methods.
Even though there is no support for certain image types and no support for most transparent image types in Crystal Reports, there are several methods / workarounds that you can employ.
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