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[Ryan]

I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill out and
print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL 2005) to be
retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally a Word Document, I
also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and quality is critical for this
form.. so what I thought I'd do is convert the form to a bitmap, use a
picture object on my VB form and overlay textbox (no border) controls on top
of the image so the appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having
problems getting the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the
option to save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's
some fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right -
on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left corner) fills
the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at least double size what
they should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB application
without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan

[GhostInAK]

Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer. This
will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF. From there any
decent graphics package can convert it to any format you desire.

-Boo

I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill out
and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL 2005)
to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally a Word
Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and quality is
critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is convert the form
to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and overlay textbox
(no border) controls on top of the image so the appearance remains
exactly the same. I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap
format however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around the
letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB form, a
small portion of the document (the top left corner) fills the screen..
it's much too large. The letters are at least double size what they
should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan

[Ryan]

Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still showing
up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the resolution. The
..bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be displaying in my picture box
at something like 100x100 dots per inch. Is there anyway to modify the
PictureBox so that it displays correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer. This
will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF. From there
any decent graphics package can convert it to any format you desire.

-Boo

>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill out
and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL 2005)
to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally a Word
Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and quality is
critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is convert the form
to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and overlay textbox
(no border) controls on top of the image so the appearance remains
exactly the same. I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap
format however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around the
letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB form, a
small portion of the document (the top left corner) fills the screen..
it's much too large. The letters are at least double size what they
should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan

[GhostInAK]

Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties. Also, any
decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still
showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the
resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be
displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per inch.
Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

>Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer.
This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF.
From there any decent graphics package can convert it to any format
you desire.

-Boo

>>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill
out and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL
2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally
a Word Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and
quality is critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is
convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and
overlay textbox (no border) controls on top of the image so the
appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having problems getting
the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the option to
save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's some
fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right
- on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left
corner) fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
least double size what they should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Ryan,

You can set the PictureBox.SizeMode property to
PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage to make the image fit the picturebox. Or
set it to PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize to make the picturebox fit image.

Please check the following link for more information:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...picturebox.siz
emode.aspx

HTH.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Ryan]

Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp. It
still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB as a bitmap
and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try to edit it in gives
me an "out of memory" error. If I try to "stretch" the image the "out of
memory" occurs during design time. Why am I stretching the image anyways?
I want to have an exact replica of the original document, not some
misproportioned image. I have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other programs
running, but it is infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so difficult
to get a word document to display on a visual basic form - they're both MS
products, you'd think there would be some compatibility rather than going
through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work. Any other
suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of my hair)

Thanks.
"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties. Also, any
decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

>Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still
showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the
resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be
displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per inch.
Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft. com...

>>Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer.
This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF.
From there any decent graphics package can convert it to any format
you desire.

-Boo

I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill
out and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL
2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally
a Word Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and
quality is critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is
convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and
overlay textbox (no border) controls on top of the image so the
appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having problems getting
the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the option to
save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's some
fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right
- on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left
corner) fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
least double size what they should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan

[Ryan]

Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to 1/10th
(2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of memory. Doesn't
make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in Paint it says something
like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a normal sheet of paper. At 8.5"
x 11" it appeared 3 times that size. Still confused but at least making
progress again.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp. It
still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB as a
bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try to edit it
in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to "stretch" the image the
"out of memory" occurs during design time. Why am I stretching the image
anyways? I want to have an exact replica of the original document, not
some misproportioned image. I have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other
programs running, but it is infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so
difficult to get a word document to display on a visual basic form -
they're both MS products, you'd think there would be some compatibility
rather than going through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work.
Any other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of my
hair)

Thanks.
"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

>Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties. Also, any
decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

>>Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still
showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the
resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be
displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per inch.
Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft .com...

Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer.
This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF.
From there any decent graphics package can convert it to any format
you desire.

-Boo

I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill
out and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL
2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally
a Word Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and
quality is critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is
convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and
overlay textbox (no border) controls on top of the image so the
appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having problems getting
the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the option to
save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's some
fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right
- on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left
corner) fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
least double size what they should appear.
>
Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>
Ryan
>

[Ryan]

Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast. However,
it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to print).. I'm
using the Visual Studio report creator and added the image to the report as
an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse even in design.. if I use
autosize for the image the text looks horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW
it's showing up as way too small (the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large
image and "out of memory" exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:ek*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to 1/10th
(2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of memory. Doesn't
make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in Paint it says
something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a normal sheet of
paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size. Still confused but
at least making progress again.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp. It
still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB as a
bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try to edit it
in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to "stretch" the image
the "out of memory" occurs during design time. Why am I stretching the
image anyways? I want to have an exact replica of the original document,
not some misproportioned image. I have 1 GB memory in this PC and no
other programs running, but it is infact sucking all my resources. Why
is it so difficult to get a word document to display on a visual basic
form - they're both MS products, you'd think there would be some
compatibility rather than going through 14 conversion steps and still
failing to work. Any other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out
whats left of my hair)

Thanks.
"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft. com...

>>Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties. Also, any
decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still
showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the
resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be
displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per inch.
Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsof t.com...

Hello Ryan,
>
Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer.
This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF.
From there any decent graphics package can convert it to any format
you desire.
>
-Boo
>
>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill
>out and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL
>2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally
>a Word Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and
>quality is critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is
>convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and
>overlay textbox (no border) controls on top of the image so the
>appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having problems getting
>the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the option to
>save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's some
>fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right
>- on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left
>corner) fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
>least double size what they should appear.
>>
>Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
>application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>>
>Ryan
>>

[GhostInAK]

Hello Ryan,

If yer using report creator, just recreate the form and be done with this
sillyness with pictures.

-Boo

Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast.
However, it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to
print).. I'm using the Visual Studio report creator and added the
image to the report as an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse
even in design.. if I use autosize for the image the text looks
horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW it's showing up as way too small
(the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large image and "out of memory"
exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan
"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:ek*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to
1/10th (2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of
memory. Doesn't make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in
Paint it says something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a
normal sheet of paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size.
Still confused but at least making progress again.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp.
It still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB
as a bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try
to edit it in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to
"stretch" the image the "out of memory" occurs during design time.
Why am I stretching the image anyways? I want to have an exact
replica of the original document, not some misproportioned image. I
have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other programs running, but it is
infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so difficult to get a
word document to display on a visual basic form - they're both MS
products, you'd think there would be some compatibility rather than
going through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work. Any
other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of
my hair)

Thanks.

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft .com...

Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties.
Also, any decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's
still showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to
the resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must
be displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per
inch. Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?
>
Ryan
>
"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microso ft.com...
>
>Hello Ryan,
>>
>Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging
>printer. This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as
>a TIFF. From there any decent graphics package can convert it to
>any format you desire.
>>
>-Boo
>>
>>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to
>>fill out and print a form. The form input is stored in a
>>database (SQL 2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The
>>form is originally a Word Document, I also have this form as a
>>PDF. Appearance and quality is critical for this form.. so what
>>I thought I'd do is convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture
>>object on my VB form and overlay textbox (no border) controls on
>>top of the image so the appearance remains exactly the same.
>>I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap format
>>however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
>>obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around
>>the letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB
>>form, a small portion of the document (the top left corner)
>>fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
>>least double size what they should appear.
>>>
>>Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
>>application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>>>
>>Ryan
>>>

[Ryan]

Looks like I may have to do this. I wasn't sure if report creator had all
the options for layout and formatting to allow me to accurately reproduce
the document, but I suppose now I'll have to find out.

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

Hello Ryan,

If yer using report creator, just recreate the form and be done with this
sillyness with pictures.

-Boo

>Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast.
However, it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to
print).. I'm using the Visual Studio report creator and added the
image to the report as an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse
even in design.. if I use autosize for the image the text looks
horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW it's showing up as way too small
(the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large image and "out of memory"
exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan
"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:ek*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to
1/10th (2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of
memory. Doesn't make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in
Paint it says something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a
normal sheet of paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size.
Still confused but at least making progress again.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl.. .

Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp.
It still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB
as a bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try
to edit it in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to
"stretch" the image the "out of memory" occurs during design time.
Why am I stretching the image anyways? I want to have an exact
replica of the original document, not some misproportioned image. I
have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other programs running, but it is
infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so difficult to get a
word document to display on a visual basic form - they're both MS
products, you'd think there would be some compatibility rather than
going through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work. Any
other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of
my hair)

Thanks.

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsof t.com...

Hello Ryan,
>
Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties.
Also, any decent graphics package will change the resolution.
>
-Boo
>
>Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's
>still showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to
>the resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must
>be displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per
>inch. Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
>correctly?
>>
>Ryan
>>
>"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
>news:be**************************@news.micros oft.com...
>>
>>Hello Ryan,
>>>
>>Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging
>>printer. This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as
>>a TIFF. From there any decent graphics package can convert it to
>>any format you desire.
>>>
>>-Boo
>>>
>>>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to
>>>fill out and print a form. The form input is stored in a
>>>database (SQL 2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The
>>>form is originally a Word Document, I also have this form as a
>>>PDF. Appearance and quality is critical for this form.. so what
>>>I thought I'd do is convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture
>>>object on my VB form and overlay textbox (no border) controls on
>>>top of the image so the appearance remains exactly the same.
>>>I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap format
>>>however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
>>>obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around
>>>the letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB
>>>form, a small portion of the document (the top left corner)
>>>fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
>>>least double size what they should appear.
>>>>
>>>Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
>>>application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>>>>
>>>Ryan
>>>>

[Ryan]

Well report creator definitely does not operate like a word processor. What
took me about 30 minutes to reproduce in Word looks like it will take me the
better part of 8 hours to reproduce in Report Creator. Each line of text
has to be in it's own text box.. each line doesn't align spacing with the
last line based on font sizes.. etc. Ugg.. tedious to say the least.

Do people really use report creator to design forms?

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Looks like I may have to do this. I wasn't sure if report creator had all
the options for layout and formatting to allow me to accurately reproduce
the document, but I suppose now I'll have to find out.

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

>Hello Ryan,

If yer using report creator, just recreate the form and be done with this
sillyness with pictures.

-Boo

>>Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast.
However, it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to
print).. I'm using the Visual Studio report creator and added the
image to the report as an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse
even in design.. if I use autosize for the image the text looks
horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW it's showing up as way too small
(the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large image and "out of memory"
exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan
"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:ek*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to
1/10th (2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of
memory. Doesn't make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in
Paint it says something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a
normal sheet of paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size.
Still confused but at least making progress again.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl. ..

Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp.
It still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB
as a bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try
to edit it in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to
"stretch" the image the "out of memory" occurs during design time.
Why am I stretching the image anyways? I want to have an exact
replica of the original document, not some misproportioned image. I
have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other programs running, but it is
infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so difficult to get a
word document to display on a visual basic form - they're both MS
products, you'd think there would be some compatibility rather than
going through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work. Any
other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of
my hair)
>
Thanks.
>
"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microso ft.com...
>
>Hello Ryan,
>>
>Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties.
>Also, any decent graphics package will change the resolution.
>>
>-Boo
>>
>>Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's
>>still showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to
>>the resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must
>>be displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per
>>inch. Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
>>correctly?
>>>
>>Ryan
>>>
>>"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
>>news:be**************************@news.micro soft.com...
>>>
>>>Hello Ryan,
>>>>
>>>Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging
>>>printer. This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as
>>>a TIFF. From there any decent graphics package can convert it to
>>>any format you desire.
>>>>
>>>-Boo
>>>>
>>>>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to
>>>>fill out and print a form. The form input is stored in a
>>>>database (SQL 2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The
>>>>form is originally a Word Document, I also have this form as a
>>>>PDF. Appearance and quality is critical for this form.. so what
>>>>I thought I'd do is convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture
>>>>object on my VB form and overlay textbox (no border) controls on
>>>>top of the image so the appearance remains exactly the same.
>>>>I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap format
>>>>however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
>>>>obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around
>>>>the letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB
>>>>form, a small portion of the document (the top left corner)
>>>>fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
>>>>least double size what they should appear.
>>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
>>>>application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>Ryan
>>>>>

[Ryan]

Ok, thought I'd try out Crystal Reports.. 100% better for laying out a form
to specifications.

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:uH****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Well report creator definitely does not operate like a word processor.
What took me about 30 minutes to reproduce in Word looks like it will take
me the better part of 8 hours to reproduce in Report Creator. Each line
of text has to be in it's own text box.. each line doesn't align spacing
with the last line based on font sizes.. etc. Ugg.. tedious to say the
least.

Do people really use report creator to design forms?

"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>Looks like I may have to do this. I wasn't sure if report creator had
all the options for layout and formatting to allow me to accurately
reproduce the document, but I suppose now I'll have to find out.

"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:be**************************@news.microsoft. com...

>>Hello Ryan,

If yer using report creator, just recreate the form and be done with
this sillyness with pictures.

-Boo

Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast.
However, it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to
print).. I'm using the Visual Studio report creator and added the
image to the report as an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse
even in design.. if I use autosize for the image the text looks
horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW it's showing up as way too small
(the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large image and "out of memory"
exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan
"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:ek*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to
1/10th (2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of
memory. Doesn't make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in
Paint it says something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a
normal sheet of paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size.
Still confused but at least making progress again.
>
"Ryan" <Ty****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl.. .
>
>Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp.
>It still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB
>as a bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try
>to edit it in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to
>"stretch" the image the "out of memory" occurs during design time.
>Why am I stretching the image anyways? I want to have an exact
>replica of the original document, not some misproportioned image. I
>have 1 GB memory in this PC and no other programs running, but it is
>infact sucking all my resources. Why is it so difficult to get a
>word document to display on a visual basic form - they're both MS
>products, you'd think there would be some compatibility rather than
>going through 14 conversion steps and still failing to work. Any
>other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out whats left of
>my hair)
>>
>Thanks.
>>
>"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
>news:be**************************@news.micros oft.com...
>>
>>Hello Ryan,
>>>
>>Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties.
>>Also, any decent graphics package will change the resolution.
>>>
>>-Boo
>>>
>>>Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's
>>>still showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to
>>>the resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must
>>>be displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per
>>>inch. Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
>>>correctly?
>>>>
>>>Ryan
>>>>
>>>"GhostInAK" <gh*******@gmail.comwrote in message
>>>news:be**************************@news.micr osoft.com...
>>>>
>>>>Hello Ryan,
>>>>>
>>>>Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging
>>>>printer. This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as
>>>>a TIFF. From there any decent graphics package can convert it to
>>>>any format you desire.
>>>>>
>>>>-Boo
>>>>>
>>>>>I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to
>>>>>fill out and print a form. The form input is stored in a
>>>>>database (SQL 2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The
>>>>>form is originally a Word Document, I also have this form as a
>>>>>PDF. Appearance and quality is critical for this form.. so what
>>>>>I thought I'd do is convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture
>>>>>object on my VB form and overlay textbox (no border) controls on
>>>>>top of the image so the appearance remains exactly the same.
>>>>>I'm having problems getting the document to bitmap format
>>>>>however.. PDF only gives the option to save as a JPG, which is
>>>>>obviously reducing the quality (there's some fuzziness around
>>>>>the letters) and the image size ratio is not right - on my VB
>>>>>form, a small portion of the document (the top left corner)
>>>>>fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
>>>>>least double size what they should appear.
>>>>>>
>>>>>Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
>>>>>application without reducing the quality? Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>Ryan
>>>>>>