Inserting a picture.

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I have an application the on the main menu I place a picture as a
background, and place the program selection options on top of this. The
picture is a .jpg size is 297 KB. On my development machine the looks great
and works fine. When I take this to the clients system and load it the
picture doesn't show up. I have the picture embedded in the system. I've
tried doing it linked and make sure the picture is in the correct directory
and then I get a message that the picture is to large and should change it to
a BPM or TIF. When I convert the picture to a BPM the size goes up to 11meg
and shows up looking very grany on the screen. I've used the jpg on other
systems and don't have any problems. The only thing I can think of is that
this machine doesn't have enough memory (although it does have 256meg or
RAM). Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks for your Help

CD Tom
 
My guess is that machine does not have the 'graphic filters' installed. They
come with Office Pro and with standalone MS Word, but not with standalone MS
Access. They are definitely needed if you want to display .JPG. But, if you
embed a .JPG as the background of a Form, it will be internally converted to
BMP and you may experience some 'bloat', anyway.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
 
As Larry mentioned, the embedded Jpeg will be converted to
Bitmap(actually a DIB wrapped within a Metafile) format so you might as
well convert it yourself. While you're at it reduce the resolution
significantly in order to reduce the overall file size. You probably
have the original Jpeg in 300DPI or higher and you are displaying it on
monitor/graphics card with less than 100DPI.

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Stephen Lebans
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