JPG images on forms

[Conan Kelly]

I have a control on a form bound to an OLE Object field in a table. I use
this field for pictures.

What I have noticed is that when I set that field to an existing .bmp file,
the picture shows up fine in the form. But, if I try to set this field to
an existing .jpg file, the pic won't show up in the form but the text of the
file name shows up.

Is there anyway that I can get a .jpg to show up in this control?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

Conan Kelly

 

[Guest]

What graphics applications do you have installed on your machine? And what
version of Office are you using? I understand that Office 2003 may use a
graphics program that is not well suited to jpeg images. You may need to
install Photo Editor from Office XP. Anyway, check the graphics apps that
you have and try others.

Others may be able to help you more with this issue.

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[Guest]

Stephen Lebans has some really good tools on his website. You may want to
look there. http://www.lebans.com/loadjpeggif.htm

HTH
Keith

 

[Guest]

I think you will need to save the jpg as a tif or bmp file before you can
store it as an OLE field. You can do this with Paint if you do not have a
graphics program. The tif file could be difficult to work with if you need
to change its size on the form or report. I don't know why this is so. If
you have a graphics program that can create the jpg file as a Windows
metafile or Enhanced metafile, that would probably be the most compact (i.e.
smallest) graphics file you could use.