Features request

Hi all.
I've been working with RS for a month or so migrating all our client-side
reports (MS Access) to server-side (RS). I have a bunch of them to be
converted yet but I think I have some experience and can do some suggestions
to a product that is a very good product to be the 1st version. I hope next
version in SQL Server 2005 improves some things like:
* Add the option to select a RGB color for using it as transparency for the
Image control: You can add transparencies to the images themselves when
using GIF or PNG formats. However when images are bitmaps, since bitmap
format does not have support for transparency layers, it would be usefull to
have that support from RS itself.
* Render to .SNP format (MS Access Snapshot format).
* Within the VS IDE, when you copy a group of controls and paste them in
another report, they are not located at the same X,Y positions as they were
in the original report, but at the middle/center of the space they have been
inserted into (parent). I think that report designers would prefer to paste
the copied controls in the place they were instead of another coordinates
that sometimes are not aligned to the grid either (even though align to grid
is active).
* When you copy a control named MyUserRenamedControl1 (a textbox for
instance) and paste into the same report, since that control name is already
used, the new control is named TexboxX (being X a free number that makes the
name unique in the report). I think that if report designers have renamed a
default name component to another name (for whatever the reason), the IDE
should try to keep the same name and add numbers to the end of the name that
the designer has selected. In this case the names of new controls should be
MyUserRenamedControl2, MyUserRenamedControl3, etc.
* Rounded corners for rectangles, components for circles, ellipses, oblique
text (number of degrees selectable). This might be of less use for many
people, mainly when they use RS to generate pure-listing reports. However if
you use RS to generate invoices or other kind of documents that need quality
and be visually attractive, this kind of improvements would help a lot.
Regards and congratulations for such a good work.Also, report headers and footers, to supplement page headers and
footers.|||Report headers and footers are equivalent to objects that appear before any
data regions.
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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server
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> Also, report headers and footers, to supplement page headers and
> footers.
>