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Is it possible to combine 2 reports into a single PDF, where one report is overlaid on top of the other?

Essentially i am creating a number of reports that the client will print onto letterheaded paper, however they will also want to save the report as a PDF with the letterhead included (for emailing/printing on blank paper).

i would rather not have to create 2 copies of each report (one with the letterhead & one without) for obvous reasons; i would rather be able create a single letterhead report and combine it with the original report and render to PDF.

Is it possible to do this using C1report, and if so could you give me a pointer as to how to go about doing it.

Thanks in advance

Bob
 

This can be done using subreports.  You have two reports and at runtime you can add the one report to the other by assigning it to a subreport field as such:

C1Report1.Fields("Field1").Subreport = C1Report2

Then you can change or clear the subreport at runtime. 

Hope that helps,
Greg

Thanks for this but its not quite what im looking for, it would still require modifying every report for changes in letterheads/footers etc.

what i really want to be able to do is render 2 seperate full-page reports onto a single page and output them into a single PDF.

i know there are components out there that can do this but since i'm currently using C1 i wanted to see if it had the functionality already.

Bob 

Two reports into one PDF is not possible through C1Report (without first combining the reports through a subreport).  But you can use C1PDF to generate a pdf from multiple objects including the pages from multiple C1Reports.  It's very easy to take each page from the Report.PageImages and draw them to a C1Pdf object.  Each report page can be a separate page in the PDF, or if the reports are small enough you can put them onto a 1 paged PDF as the attached sample shows.

Hope that helps,
Greg L

Grand job, thats exactly what im looking for.

Many thanks indeed.

 Bob.