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kepNCI

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Images in RTF Template with text on the image
« on: March 13, 2014, 08:36:58 am »
I have succeeded in embarrassing myself.
Over a year ago I had created an RTF template that closely matched our company’s Word templates. It actually works very nice.  It has a cover sheet with a header where I have an image. The actual image extends beyond the header margin and down the left side of the entire page and text in the header as well as the page flows over the image. I am able to click on the image and position it accurately on the page.  
I now want to change the template to match new company guidelines, but for the life of me, I cannot determine how I did it.

If I select “Insert Picture”, it embeds the picture in line with the text with the text flowing around it and header margin increases so that the entire image is within the header margin, pushing the start of the actual page area down.

If I select “Background” the image fills the entire page with no capability for positioning it or resizing the image.

Also does not look like I used frames or object drawing.  

I do not know how I did it. Only clue is that when looking at the header with the Paragraph Marking icon on, not only do you see the image, but in the text line, you also see a small icon of the image that is the same size as a text character. If you click on that small icon image, the actual image is selected. Repositioning the actual image does not change the position of the small icon.  The size of the header remains relational to the text only, allowing the actual image to extend beyond the header margin. I now want to do the same thing. Anyone know how I did this?  Was it a capability in release 9 that I cannot create in 10 or am I missing something?  

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Re: Images in RTF Template with text on the image
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2014, 04:30:04 am »
I figured it out.
I do not think it can be done from within the document template editor. Instead I initially created the rtf document via Word which had the cover page created with a header that included all of the background images then the text on the actual cover page. I saved the doc as an RTF doc. I then went to the EA's document template editor, created a new template and imported the rtf document.
Note: if you import an RTF doc into the document template editor and it has tables in the header or footer, you may have to re-create the tables with the template editor. For some reason it did not import the column size correctly and was difficult to adjust. Was easier to re-create it.