"Kersten" wrote
On my desktop I have now installed
Office2003 and here is not more
the MS Photo Editor but the MS Office
Picture Manager and he is not listed in
the Create object form and if I import the
picture directly from the *.jpg file in the
form is visible only a icon.
Perhaps it is time to reconsider whether using OLE Objects and OLE Frames is
the appropriate method to achieve your purpose. As you have discovered, when
you do so, you are captive to the limitations and restrictions of whatever
imaging software is registered for the file type of the image.
The sample imaging databases at
http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.
If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans'
http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zi p is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
