"Alec" wrote
... I want to be able to print these
images from their normal format
(. . . A4 scanned documents) so they
would simply come out as 1 sheet
and good quality
How can this be done using an Unbound
OLE Object? Or will I have to use
an Image Frame?
I'd _guess_, by carefully designing a report with no Headers or Footers of
any kind, a Control (I always use Image, but the unbound OLE may work) sized
as big as you can size it, in the detail, and margins set as small as they
can be set, and passing it the path to the image in question.
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
some 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
