How to set page color? Also, how to set very large page length?

[Lee Schipper]

I have a report that will be displayed on-screen only, and I would like to
have the background color something other than white, and I would like to
fit the entire report on one very long page.

I can set the background color for the individual sections, but the margins
stay white, and the print setup will not let me change the margins to 0.

Can I set the background color for the full page, including margins?

Is there a fake printer device, that would be on the end user's system, that
can accept a 0-width margin and/or set an arbitrarily long page?

Thanks!
Lee

 

[SA]

Lee:

About the only way fil the entire page witha color is to set a background
image using a solid color bitmap or jpeg etc. and set its tiling true or its
picture size mode to stretch. Some printer drivers (e.g. photo printers) do
support zero margins, but you can't assume that that driver is on each
user's machine or that its the default printer. Last there's nothing that
will allow a report to have a size (i.e. length / width) that exceeds 22"