Certificates with picture

[R Bell]

I have designed a data base that includes options for
printing a variety of certificates with different
pictures. When the pics. are embedded it really bloats
the data base and i was wondering if there is a way so
that the size of data base does not become huge, apart
from LINKING the pics.

Thank you for any help

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

See whether what Stephen Lebans has at
http://www.lebans.com/loadsavejpeg.htm helps.

 

[Arvin Meyer]

You do not need to store the picture in the database. Storing only a path to
it ensures that there will be no bloat. Have a look at the demo database on
my website, parts of which you can import into your application.

http://www.datastrat.com/Download/Picture2K.zip
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Larry Linson]

The Imaging examples at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three methods
of handling images in Access, two of which do not cause the bload that
storing the images as OLE Objects and using bound OLE frames to display them
does. There's also an article in that download which discusses
considerations in choosing a method.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP