Display image on PDF

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Hi:

The Deski Report is scheduled to create a PDF document. We are trying to display the logo (BMP File) on the PDF and have failed so far…

I have looked all across the forum and there are solutions for WebI documents but not DeskI documents.

We have the logo file saved in the images folder and I tried accessing the image by using the boimg://logo.bmp in the cell on the Deski Report, but no luck…

If anyone has got the above to work I would really appreciate it if you could tell me how to do it.

Thank you!

Jiboomba (BOB member since 2005-08-11)

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try decresing the size of the BMP image even we had a same issue but after decresign the size we were able to overcome it

santosh4bo :us: (BOB member since 2006-11-20)

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Hi,

Just insert a empty cell and paste the image into the cell,i think this should work,let me know if you still have issues.

Regards

Ethirajan

Cherry :singapore: (BOB member since 2005-05-07)

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Ethirajan:

That was how I added the image on to the report… and it did not work…

Can you also tell me if there is a size limitation on the image?

Thanks

Jiboomba (BOB member since 2005-08-11)

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Try converting the BMP file into JPG or GIF or PNG.

Stephane Rodriguez (BOB member since 2005-10-11)

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It does not work… I have tried a number of different formats… but there is something with DeskI reports that it does not like

Jiboomba (BOB member since 2005-08-11)

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Hi all,
I just tried this solution and u can try it to display images in PDF format

Use the Desktop Intelligence from Web Intelligence as following:
- Open Web Intelligence “InfoView”.
- Select “New” menu -----> select Desktop Intelligence ( this will open “Desktop Intellignce” ).
- Use the Desktop Intelligence to create the report ( All “Desktop Intelligence” features can be used).
- After creating the report you can save it as “.rep” extension and also " .pdf " extension then the images will appear .

mdiaa :egypt: (BOB member since 2007-05-03)

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Hello,

What you can do (in DeskI) i think is use “insert” -> “object” and then browse to your picture. This includes the image in your report.

kind regards
Laurens

lverstraeten :belgium: (BOB member since 2006-11-02)

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What was your final solution to your problem?

Joel Seguin :us: (BOB member since 2004-12-08)

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My problem is to add many images to my report from DB path and then save the report as PDF file after that i found that the images didn’t appear in DPF file ( I cann’t insert my images manually by add it as objects )

Solution: as i mentioned in my last replied that i found when i use DeskI from WebI to creat report and save the report as PDF file the the images will appear.

mdiaa :egypt: (BOB member since 2007-05-03)

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Hi all:

I found a solution for my problem where if I add an image to a DeskI document and export it to the repository and run the report in Infoview and save it as PDF, the image does not display on the PDF.

Environment BO XI R2

The solution:

Inserted a cell and in the cell provided the full path of the image that is stored on the webserver.

For ex: …\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise115\desktoplaunch\images\logo.bmp

If you want to use a path from the DB, you need to have that location mapped to a drive on the webserver and the BO account needs to have access to that drive.

Cheers!!

Jiboomba (BOB member since 2005-08-11)

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Hi

when I specify the path for an image it does export okay to PDF, but the quality of a linked image (ie where path specifed) is markedly inferior to what I see when I embed the image. Unfirtunately the embedded image does not export to PDF! The image is a bmp.

any advice on why the image looks worse when it is specified by path rather than embedded?
thanks

icytrue (BOB member since 2006-04-10)