RS2008 Background Image Sizing

Question

So I'm attempting to create a report that is able to pre-fill a "government form" with Reporting Services 2008.

Now this all falls down to the 96 DPI issue everyone seems to be having.

Let's say I have a 300 DPI high res JPG file that I want to use as a background image for a report. (This jpg is actually a scan of the government form I'm trying to prefill)

When you set the Fill option of a rectangle object (or even the entire report body) - you have no option but for it to be it's original size. I cannot seem to get the image to fit proportional to the size of my rectangle.

If I add the image as a ... "image object" - I get my desired right shock horror - because I can select the sizing option "fit proportional" and then resize my "image object" as I desire.

BUT - you cannot overlay textboxes over the top of an image object. And because my image object contains fields I'm trying to prefill from a dataset - it fails.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Ok so I managed to figure this out.

For those interested, read this guide and DOWNLOAD THE SAMPLE PROJECT for an example (ignore the stuff regarding showing/hiding high/low res versions - I merely used the example to see how they were able to overlay textboxes ontop of images).

http://www.infoq.com/articles/Gogolowicz-Swanson-SSRS

You need to keep an eye on an objects parent. Keep in mind these notes;

Page_1 rectangle needs to have a parent of BaseRectangle.

Page_1_Image needs to have a parent of BaseRectangle.

All page1 textboxes need to have a parent of the Page_1 rectangle etc.

It all makes sense now.