John buckett said:
it as an employee and thier pictures, this database will
include more than 500 photos. So far I have put 6 small
size pictures and the size of the file reached more than
11 Mb, so if any body know a way to include these photos
and not making my file very very larg.
Convert the photos to jpeg, then they will only be about
25 kbytes each.
Actually, unless you take care when you load them, that's not true. Stephen
Lebans has sample code that uses the Intel Jpeg library to avoid bloat.
However, unless you use that approach, even a Jpeg is going to create severe
bloat.
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.