Install Imaging Component from Office 95 into Office 2003

[sweeneysmsm]

I am trying to install a program called Imaging which was part of Office 95
and was produced by Wang. I believe it is an Office component.

I have found the following files and installed them in the same places on my
Windows XP computer which is now running Office 2003:

Wangimg.exe – application file
Msimgsiz - data file
Imgadmin – OCX file
Imgedit – OCX file
Imgscan – OCX file
Imgthumb – OCX file
Wangimg.cnt – CNT file
Wangimg.hlp – Help file
Imgsamp.frm – Help file
Imgsampl.vbp – frm file
Wangimg.GID
Wangcmn.dll
Wangshl.dll
Wangocx.cnt
Wangocx.hlp
Wangocxd.cnt
Wangocxd.hlp
Wangshl.cnt
Wangshl.hlp

When I try to open the Imaging program I get a message:

The Wang Image Control cannot be found. Reload imaging.

Does anyone know what the name of the Wang Image Control file might be so
that I can put it in? (I cannot write to Wang because they no longer produce
this software.)

Another possibility, I am told, is to install Office Tools from the Office
95 CD. According to the instruction the default installation directory is C:
\MSOffice. When I have looked at the instructions where it has all of the
checkboxes, it says to check anything that you want installed, and uncheck
anything that you want removed. If I uncheck the Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access
programs because I don’t want them installed, will it remove my Office 2003
versions? If I leave them checked, will it install Office 95 Versions in the
new C: \MSOffice folder?

Thanks for any help.

Mary

 

[sweeneysmsm]

Hi, Joseph,

I have asked so many questions recently related to my problem that I forgot
that everyone is not on the same page as I am. My problem is related to
Access in that I am trying to embed a .jpg photo into an OLE field for each
record. When I go to Insert/Object/Create New I do not get an image option
which allows me to insert a photo - bitmap is too big. I am trying to resolve
that issue and have been pursuing suggestions that have been recommended to
me in this newsgroup.

 

[Larry Linson]

You do not need Wang Imaging to use JPG with OLE Objects in Access 2003.

Wang was acquired by Kodak, and the software then became known as Kodak
imaging. The Wang imaging software is now long out-of-date, and I don't
know the subsequent fate of Kodak imaging.

It is not clear to me from your description just what your problem is. The
SizeMode property of the Bound OLE Image can be set to Clip (which just
shows as much of your unresized image as the Control allows), Stretch (which
fills the Control in both directions, but does not preserve the aspect ratio
and thus may well distort the image), or Zoom (which fills a "best fit" in
whichever direction and preserves the aspect ratio).

However, when you work with images in OLE Objects, you put yourself at the
mercy of whatever software the user has registered for that image file type.
I am including the following, which may be of some help:

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.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