Creating reports and dashboards | Stimulsoft community forum

Hi,

i am testing Reports.Net because we want to create a software that uses this component. But we need the possibility to place forms that are delivered to us as pdf in the background. I played around, but found no way to make this usable. I think it is not possible in this release. Are there any plans to make it possible in future releases?

I also tried to import an emf in the designer since it may be possible to convert a pdf to an emf. But when i load an emf (about 1 - 2 MB) i always get an exception

error cs1647

since this feature is very important for us (placing pdf in background) i need to know if there is a possibility to place an image or better a pdf as background in a report. this also should work in the designer since the programmers need the background to place the datafield at the correct places. is this possible?

Hello.

In the current version of Stimulsoft Reports.Net you can use as a background only images and it is preferably that size of those images would not be too large.

All reports components including images are being serialized into .Net class using C# or VB.Net syntax. Framework has limitations on size of that class. I think that it was the reason of those exceptions you received.

Now we do not have plans about implementing the possibility of pdf-rendering inside of Stimulsoft Reports.Net.

So only one thing I can suggest you is to use low-resolution screenshots inside of the designer as a watermark for programmers in order their would be able to place necessary components in the Design-time.

Thank you.

Hello

I've experimented quite the same thing with an emf file set as a background image in a page.
My emf is not too big (676ko) and is well displayed in the design tab.
When I click on the Preview, I've got an error message : error CS1647 : Une expression est trop longue ou complexe pour compiler près de 'Reports.Report.InitializeComponent()' (yes, it's a french version)
And when I click on the code : bye, bye, no more StiDesigner and no message.

If I try to do it in a designer launch by code, there is "An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in Stimulsoft.Editor.dll"

OK, I will try with a simple picture but I think that it will not be that beautiful to zoom in on the picture.

Gérald

Hello,

This problem related to report code. Report engine must convert all images to c# or VB.Net code. In result you receive very big c# or vb.Net code and it does not work. But you can load image in watermark in runtime of report rendering. For example code in BeginRenderEvent of report:
Thank you.