Image is blurry/broken in Print Preview

[asi]

I have a logo in the upper left corner of a DB report and when I run a
report I notice the image is blurry and broken in Print Preview (when
Preview button is pressed). This image is crystal clear during design
in DB Report Designer (Row span = 60) and when printed. Is there a fix
or tip to enhance the output in Print Preview? Below are the image
properties...

Using DesignBais 4.13, Windows 2003 Server, Windows IIS 6.0

Image Properties...
Image Width = 76 pixels
Image Height = 60 pixels
Horizontal Resolution = 600 dpi
Vertical Resolution = 600 dpi
Bit Depth = 24
Frame Count = 1

Paul Hamrick

[Tony G]

Hi Paul. I don't have a clue about this but I did check with the author of
the MCPrintX component that DesignBais uses for printing. It's possible
that this is not related to the component. If you display the image in a
standard form, and then use the IE Print and Preview, do you still see the
image warped?

Is this browser setting checked?:
Tools | Internet Options | Advanced |
Multimedia | Enable automatic image resizing

Is this IE6 or 7?

Does the image in the report appear the same on another PC? Without more
info it's tough to tell if this is PC-specific, related to the image, IE,
etc.

I hope this leads to a resolution (pun sort of intended).
Tony
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[asi]

If I display the image in a standard form and then use Print Preview
in IE, the image becomes warped.

Testing the switch 'Enable automatic image resizing" in IE has the
same result whether on or off.

Reacts the same whether in IE6 or 7.

It happens on every PC I have tested or had tested.

I did get word from DesignBais support that..."The Report Viewer
performing some optimization to make the display process changes the
output. There is not much we can do about this." - DesignBais Support.

Paul H.

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[Tony G]

Paul wrote:
> If I display the image in a standard form and then use Print Preview
> in IE, the image becomes warped.
>
> Testing the switch 'Enable automatic image resizing" in IE has the
> same result whether on or off.
>
> Reacts the same whether in IE6 or 7.
>
> It happens on every PC I have tested or had tested.

If you haven't already done this, put the image on an HTML page that is
completely unrelated to DesignBais. Nothing but HTML, BODY, IMG, /BODY ,
/HTML. Then try a preview on a PC that has never been used with
DesignBais. I suspect when DesignBais has been removed from the equation
that you will get the same results. If that's the case, there must be
something in the image itself, or IE in general is having a problem with
it. For all we know there might be some funky bits from the software that
generated the image, maybe an issue in conversion between raster and
vector, etc.

I would convert the image from/to a GIF/JPEG, or change the resolution to
300DPI. I'd be curious to know if FireFox, Opera, or a Linux browser
exhibit the same issues with print preview of the exact same HTML page
containing that image.

T

[Symeon Breen]

Could be completely irrelevant - but when you go into print preview it
defaults to show at 75% this would make the image fuzzy as it is
trying to resize it. You can change the view size on the toolbar at
the top.

Rgds
Symeon