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ForNAV reports support the following types of images OnPrem and in the SaaS cloud solution: PDF (vectorized images) Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE) Jpeg (JPG, JPEG) Gif (GIF) Tiff (TIF, TIFF) Png (PNG) Image resolution should be as low as possible but enough to ensure a good quality output. If the resolution is too high, the

Adding editable fields and checkboxes to a PDF In some scenarios, you might want to create PDFs with fields, so that the receiver of the PDF can insert a value and return the PDF to the sender.     To do this in ForNAV, you must set the Pdf field property in the textbox control

In ForNAV, you can add a different watermark per page using JavaScript. The syntax for this is: CurrReport.AddWatermark(<pageno>,<blobfield>) where pageno is interpreted as 0 = all, or 1… = page number. The following steps describe how to add different watermarks to follow-up pages: Add the watermark files to the ForNAV File Storage table. Add the

A customer ForNAV report project is often developed using a sandbox and when the reports are ready the result must be deployed to a production system.   To make this as easy as possible, the ForNAV Setup page has an Export/Import feature.   To export, in the ForNAV Setup page, click Backup, Export:   The

This article is only relevant if you are running ForNAV Customizable Report Pack version 6.3.0.7 or later – or ForNAV 6.3.0.2289 or later. When printing to a Zebra label or receipt printer, it is often advantageous to use the ZPL language to print instead of using the normal Windows driver. The benefits include faster printing,

When you use a built pipeline to deploy a new Business Central installation, you must also be able to install ForNAV layouts and language files without manual intervention   To do this, you must upload the ForNAV layout and language files to Azure blob storage:   And you must set the access to the folder

In Business Central you can choose a payment service for your documents (Order, Invoice, and so on)   To leverage this in ForNAV, you must define a JavaScript record on the Sales, Purchase, or Service template in the ForNAV Designer. Set the Table name to Payment Reporting Argument, the Link Refence to Header, and Temporary

ForNAV reports do not have a character spacing setting for text boxes and labels. However, you can still get a similar result by introducing spaces in the text. Here is an image from a report where the word INVOICE was printed with spaces between the letters. The letters only have one space at each position.

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When printing a ForNAV report to a receipt/continuous/infinite page size printer, the printer normally receives a FF (Form feed) command at the end of the print job and, since the printer typically prints “backwards” compared to a normal printer, a blank section is printed at the beginning to print out exactly one page. To avoid