[Closed] Use of CSS to position objects

[benjaaz]

Has anyone ever used CSS to position objects?Ã,  I do a lot of reports where I have a preprinted form scanned to an image and use the image as a background image on the page and want to position fields in the report to line up with the underlying form (image). I think I could use CSS to do this but don't know if it's done with an HTML item or what.Ã,  I need to output these reports to PDF and have seen that HTML items only work with HTML output.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jim

[sir_jeroen]

Conditional formatting should do the trick.

[benjaaz]

Sorry, but I don't know what you mean about using conditional formatting. I have an image of a scanned form as the background image of the page.  If I want to put a field from the model at position 403, 252 how do I do it?  To this point I have been adding tables and adjusting the height and width to get a table in place to position a field on the report where the field will display in the correct position in relation to the background image.

I've attached a gif image of what I've had to do but doesn't work well.  In the image I have tried to represent two tables and a field called employee_name. The first table would have it's height set to drive down the table with the field in it to display properly when the report is printed.

[sir_jeroen]

But does this render in PDF?

[benjaaz]

Yes, the background image renders fine in pdf, it's just a pain to locate the fields to match placement against the image. I've used a graphics editor to remove all the text and lines from the image and just use it as a background.  Then I recreate all the text and lines with Report Studio and it is working ok.  This report wasn't too bad I have some government type forms that are a pain.

Thanks!