images display in print preview but not in printed report

[hickeyc]

I have a report that displays images for records. It looks fine in Print Preview but when I actually print it some of the images are missing. It seems to be hit or miss as to whether or not an image will show.

I also tried printing the report to a pdf file with the same results.

Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions?

 

[yetanotherjo]

Yup, I've met this but can't remember just what the problem was! Are you using code to bring up the images? I think my problem had something to do with which event I attached the code to.

 

[Crowley16]

it's the access libraries, some of them don't/can't export to print very well...

you could try to update your printer driver, or use a different version of access libraries, bit of a hit and miss really...

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[hickeyc]

Thanks for the replies.

yetanotherjo: Yes, I'm using code to bring up the images. The code is in the Detail Format event and the report looks fine in Print Preview, just not when it's printed. I'm not sure what other event to link this code to.

Crowley16: Would the access libraries be updated with MDAC? I'm pretty sure this machine has a current MDAC version but I could probably get it reinstalled. I've put in a request to have the printer driver checked (I don't have direct access to the PC in question.)

 

[yetanotherjo]

That's me out of the game, sorry.

 

[Crowley16]

not sure if that'll get it...

I've run across similar problems when printing chart objects, because the print driver doesn't suport the chart object from access, it didn't print it, although I was using the same library as I was in excel, and excel was printing fine, so it seems to be just one of those things...

In the end, I had to convert the report to a snapshot, and then print the snapshot...

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[powella]

I had this too.

I had to had the image loading code to:
Report_Page()
and
Sub Detail1_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)
so that the images would conditionaly display on the screen and on the printed page.

I just created my own sub and called it from each