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I have a database built from scratch in Access 2007 that includes an
attachment field which is used to store JPEG photos of people's faces that
are printed onto ID cards. It has been working perfectly until recently when
the photos get distorted (they look almost as though they have gone into
4-bit colour mode with lots of dithering). When you view the report in
'Report View' the picture looks perfect, but when you go to 'Print Preview'
the distortion occurs. It is nothing to do with the images themselves, as
ones that have printed perfectly before are now distorted. I have also tried
using images of varying resolution, compression, even BMP instead of JPEG all
with no effect.
When printing the report the effect varies depending on which printer is
used (and creating a PDF of the report doesn't show the problem).
It is not tied to a particular PC; and interestingly not tied to the
specific database (I created a clean database as a test and found the same
problem there). Also occurs on both XP and Vista OS.
Screengrabs to show the issue can be seen here:
http://www.cforce.co.uk/support/Access2007ReportView.jpg
http://www.cforce.co.uk/support/Access2007PrintPreview.jpg
Has there been a recent hotfix that could have caused this?
Any other ideas?
Tennant
attachment field which is used to store JPEG photos of people's faces that
are printed onto ID cards. It has been working perfectly until recently when
the photos get distorted (they look almost as though they have gone into
4-bit colour mode with lots of dithering). When you view the report in
'Report View' the picture looks perfect, but when you go to 'Print Preview'
the distortion occurs. It is nothing to do with the images themselves, as
ones that have printed perfectly before are now distorted. I have also tried
using images of varying resolution, compression, even BMP instead of JPEG all
with no effect.
When printing the report the effect varies depending on which printer is
used (and creating a PDF of the report doesn't show the problem).
It is not tied to a particular PC; and interestingly not tied to the
specific database (I created a clean database as a test and found the same
problem there). Also occurs on both XP and Vista OS.
Screengrabs to show the issue can be seen here:
http://www.cforce.co.uk/support/Access2007ReportView.jpg
http://www.cforce.co.uk/support/Access2007PrintPreview.jpg
Has there been a recent hotfix that could have caused this?
Any other ideas?
Tennant