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Crystal Reports:
Box and Shadow
See also: Box
and Line
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Here is a Crystal report of a company, fictional
of course, showing pictures of the staff in rounded boxes with
shadows, giving a 3D effect.
In this workaround, you draw two boxes, round
them to the same percentage, have one box colored slightly
darker than the other.
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Place one box on top of the other but offset
them by having the lighter one positioned slightly lower and
slightly to the right of the other.
Have the lighter colored box positioned in front
of the darker box, the darker one behind as a shadow.
The detailed steps are to draw a box around your text or
image and round it. Format the box to color the line with a
medium color.
In this example, it is a custom color of mid grey.
A key step is to color-fill the box with exactly the same color
as the box line.
To help you do this, you can use the Red,
Green, Blue numbers on the bottom right. |
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Then copy the box and change the format of both
the line and fill with a slightly lighter color, Silver in this
example.
Place the lighter box on top of the darker one,
offsetting them.
Incidentally, this report was written in CR 8.5
and the images were stored in a folder, not directly in a
database.
The images were picked up using our
cViewIMAGE utility. |
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