Grid with images/no gaps

This seems like a simple enough thing, but I couldn't find any information when I searched. I'm trying to create a grid with some images within it where the intent is to seamlessly join them together. This is similar to the web technique where rectangular images are stitched together to construct a page. Not my favorite technique, but I am constrained to duplicate an existing design. So, I placed Image controls within the Cells of a Grid, and set the rows and columns to be the exact size desired. I have ensured that all padding and margins for the Image, Cell, Row/Column, and Grid are set to zero, yet I still get unwanted gaps between the images (both HTML and PDF output are targeted). Is there something that I am missing?

It's also worth noting that I would prefer to set these images as background in order to easily layer text on top of them, but bug 272238 seems to prevent this (although I believe this might be fixed in BIRT 2.5).

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mwilliams

Hi kevinroll,

Can you attach a report that I can run that has this issue? Thanks.

Are you using BIRT 2.3.2?

kevinroll

See attached - this should demonstrate what I am trying to do. I'm working on making the columns line up with the top image as well, but since it contains white space on the sides I have to tweak this by hand.

BIRT 2.3.2.

mwilliams

kevinroll,<br />
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I'm seeing the same thing you're seeing and don't see a way to get rid of the space. Please log a bug for this at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/reportabug.php'>BIRT: Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements</a>. Thanks.

kevinroll

Will do. I talked to my colleague and due to the fact that there are numerous problems with this approach we might just build a page-sized image and merge it in at PDF creation time. Thanks for looking at it.