access reports not accepting jpg format..why?

[Jack]

Reports which previously ran-with images ; now offer the
error message: "microsoft Access doesn't support the
format of the file c:/foldername/filename.jpg so it can't
load the picture." Then it either bombs to a vb for
applications error or closes the report.
I built the database & tested it on my pc at home and it
worked fine. Pasting the db up to my coworker's machine-
offers those errors.
Anyone have any clue as to what's going on here?
thanks
Jack

 

[Rick Brandt]

Reports which previously ran-with images ; now offer the
error message: "microsoft Access doesn't support the
format of the file c:/foldername/filename.jpg so it can't
load the picture." Then it either bombs to a vb for
applications error or closes the report.
I built the database & tested it on my pc at home and it
worked fine. Pasting the db up to my coworker's machine-
offers those errors.
Anyone have any clue as to what's going on here?
thanks

Access itself never resolves a jpg (or other) type of file. It uses the
associations in Windows to determine what program on your PC is capable of
acting as an automation server for that file type. Your PC at home has some
registered software installed that can handle jpg files. The coworker's PC
does not so it will not work unless some software that can handle that file
type is installed.

This would be true of any embedded file that you use. If you had software
that handled jpg files, but then modified a report to embed a tif file
instead then the report would again fail unless all users had software
installed that could handle tif files.