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At run time, you can specify whether the image of the form must be printed or not. The image of the form isnot printed by default.For example:To print reports on pre-printed forms, you can:• create a "Form" report. See the next paragraph for more details.• include a form in an existing report.4.4.1 Information specific to the formSpecific information is required to use a pre-printed form in a report:• the file containing the image of the form. The size of the report is automatically calculated according to thesize of the form image.For the A4 format, the size of an image in 75 DPI must be 595 x 842 pixels. For A4 format, the size of animage in 150 DPI must be 1275 x 1753 pixels.If the image of the form corresponds to a PDF file containing several pages, you can:• print all the pages found in the PDF file. A report made of several pages is created in the report editor.• specify the number of the page that must be used as report background. The report will print a singlepage of the PDF file.• whether the image of the form must be printed or not.Note: If the image of the form is printed in the report, it will not be printed beyond the physical margins ofthe printer.• the division of the form according to the number of records printed per page:• if the forms contains the characteristics of a single customer, a single record must be printed per page.In this case, the created report will only contain the Body block.• if the form contains the characteristics of several customers, several records must be printed perpage.In this case, the created report will contain a Page header block, a Body block and a Page footer block.The Body block will be repeated for each record printed on the page. To print the report properly, youmust modify the position of the report controls and the position of the form image in the Body block.Part 1: Report editor 57