Add an image with transparency to Crystal Reports

Question

Is it really true that Crystal Reports does not support images that have transparency?

We are using it at work and the guy that does Crystal Reports told me it does

Answer 1

There is another work around I tried and was successful. If you want the image as a watermark in your report, use your report as a sub report in the detail section of the main report and keep the image in a main report page header and use the option 'Underlay Following Sections' in the Section Expert. All the lines and texts will appear properly on top of the image.

Answer 2

CR doesn't support transparency but you can use a wmf image to solve your problem. I'm using CR 12 (2008), i need to put an image as signature (as a watermark) on another image.

Example:

Background_image.jpg Signature_image.jpg

Convert Signature_image.jpg into a wmf file using "Inkscape" (freeware).

In the report, we have "Background_image.jpg" and over it the "Signature_image.wmf" image, it works great!

Answer 3

As AR_Italy said, confirmed that wmf files are the way to go, even though SAP site says transparent images are not supported, so thank you to AR_Italy. The only thing I would add is that these can be Exported from Adobe Illustrator as well (make sure your image has a transparent background first).

Answer 4

Just reached over here while searching for same problem. Unfortunately this is true till this date :(

Answering this question for users who may visit again here.

Transparent background of image is not retained when adding it to Crystal Reports

I achived solution following way.

Painted transperent area with printing page color i.e. white in my case.

I would like to put image in page header and some text over it.

In CR design mode.

1. right click in page header section -> select section expert
2. select page header -> click insert
3. In page header a check "Underlay following sections" -> click ok.
4. back in design, in section "page header a" include image.
5. In section "page header b" include text which I would like to show over image (i.e. I am expecting to be transparent).

Hope this helps for future visitors.

Answer 5

If your Image has a white background AND your lazy just check this out: Rightclick on your report, select Report and Report options and Check "Retain Original Image Color Depth