Inserted image (size issue)

[munchen]

I am using crystal version 8.5 and I am connecting via ODBC to a Microsoft access database.

I have a report that is run through a VB.net application. This report has an image inserted in the report footer section (a cheque image). When this image is inserted the size of the report now becomes 8.30MB. Without this image the size of the report is 787KB.

I have tried saving the image as various formats and the image size is as follows:

Bmp is 7.47MB
Gif 537KB
Png 462KB
Psp 796KB
Tif 557KB

However whichever of the smaller images I try to insert the size of the report is still around 8MB, which is causing memory problems for some users with older pc’s.

Is there a way that I can insert an image without the size of the report increasing to around 8MB?

As some users have only around 250MB of memory left on their hard drive and they need to run reports with these images quite often they seem to be getting DLR03 errors a lot. Users with a lot of spare memory do not have any problems at all. Does the image cause a tmp file to be stored on their hard drive?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[GJParker]

unfortunately this is doen by design and there is no way around it. see the following article.

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2014600.asp

HTH

Gary Parker
MIS Data Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[munchen]

GJParker,

Thanks for your reply. I did think that this was the case but was hoping there was a way round it.

When a user attempts to run one of the 8MB reports that contain the image, is a temp file temporarily stored on their hard drive? Or does it consume memory in attempting to run the report?

NOTE - They only seem to be having problems with the reports that contain cheque images(and are low on memory.

 

[GJParker]

When the user opens a report then a tmp file is created on the users PC and there is a also an increase RAm usage. Although if the file is only 8mb in size and you say they still have 250 mb of space left on the HD I wouldn't have thought this wouldbe an issue.



Gary Parker
MIS Data Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[sauved]

I also read the BO document that GJParker referred to above, and I'd like to know who BO thinks they're fooling? Who actually believes that BMP is a superior format to JPG? BO really needs to license native JPG formats so we can include them in reports, and cut down on our report sizes.