Diana said:
Hello
Is there any way, i.e. perhaps though some add-in, that I
can export separate form/report records to pdf, and have
it do so for all pages?
There are third-party libraries for creating PDFs, but I simply print to
Adobe Acrobat itself, installed as a printer. For my needs, an older version
of Acrobat works very nicely. If your requirements are not "stringent", you
might be able to get a buy on an older version at one of the online auction
sites. You can search the comp.databases.ms-access newsgroup at
http://groups.google.com -- I'm sure that's where I remember seeing a
discussion of the third-party libraries.
Also, attempting to link bound photo's, but I
may need to send this file to a client who will
most likely have a different path than currently
associated with photo. Know of any way to
globally change the links to the photos?
"Globally change the links?" That would depend on what you have and how you
have it stored. There is code at
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm
for directly using the Windows Common Dialog API to let the user select a
File. There is also code at
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0002.htm for
using the Windows API directly to browse for a folder. With appropriate VBA
code, one of these APIs should allow you to do what you want.
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. The BLOB
approach might be suitable for your purposes -- keeping the images in a
database, but without the OLE drawbacks.
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.zip 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
