Importing photos into Access Databases?

[Guest]

How do I import photos from Adobe Photoshop to Access databases so that I can
resize them when making reports? Also, what format(s) would you recommend?
e.g. tiff, jpeg, etc.?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

I wouldn't recommend it at all. Access is very bad at storing photos: the
database will bloat significantly.

 

[Larry Linson]

How do I import photos from
Adobe Photoshop to Access
databases so that I can resize
them when making reports? Also,
what format(s) would you recom-
mend? e.g. tiff, jpeg, etc.?

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