Embedded Objects

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Lionel Fridjhon

I am building a database that will have about 100
records,each with an embedded image of about 700 Kb.
After entering the first 10 records with the embedded
images, I noticed that the database had expanded in size
to over 300Mb, after compacting the database. At this
rate the database will be about 3Gb by the time it is
complete.
Is there any way I can display a report with a pic in
each record, and use up less hard drive space?
 
Store only the path to the picture/image file. Add a very small bmp image to
your report as an image control. Then in your report's On Print event, set
the Image's Picture property to the file name.
 
Thanks for your response to my queru.

I do not inderstand what you mean by "storing the file
path only - I have a field in the table called "Picture"
which currently has the pic inserted as an object. Should
I replace this object in the table with the file path as
a string?
I also cannot find the image's Picture property in the
list of properties for the bound object frame that
presently has the Picture field as the Control Source.
As you can see I am confused about how to go about this.
Can you help out?

Lionel
 
You need to switch the standard Image control not the Bound or Unbound
OLE Frame controls.

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