Pictures in Access 2003 Report

[b lewis]

I have a home inspection database that needs to display a photo of the home
inspected in a report. There are several homes in the database that have
been inspected and each have a photo. A sample link to one of the photos is:
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron\My Documents\BL.bmp.

The picture are stored in the database as a link with the path as displayed
above. The picture is not embeded. In the data entry form the picture is
displayed, but the picture is not displayed, nor is it printed in the final
report.

Is there some code that can be used on the report side to allow these
pictures to be printed? I would be grateful for some help.

Thanks,

B Lewis

 

[Larry Linson]

I have a home inspection database that needs
to display a photo of the home inspected in a
report. There are several homes in the database
that have been inspected and each have a photo.
A sample link to one of the photos is:
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron\My Documents\BL.bmp.

The picture are stored in the database as a link
with the path as displayed above. The picture is
not embeded. In the data entry form the picture is
displayed, but the picture is not displayed, nor is
it printed in the final report.

Is there some code that can be used on the report
side to allow these pictures to be printed? I would
be grateful for 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