Saving Space on repeated graphics

[ahmun]

I want to be able to include the company logo on most of the forms I am creating.

One thing I want to avoid is a super big DB cuz I have so many pictures in it. Does anyone know how Access handles images? Are they referencing a source file? Or is a copy of the graphic pasted into the form (I'm asking this cuz I have had bad experiences with Powerpoint, which converts every imported image into a BMP, therefore making rediculous file sizes.)

 

[gusbrunston]

Hi.

You can insert a picture either by linking to it or binding it. If you link it, then the picture is subject to change when the linked file is amended by the original creating program.

In design view, drag the unbound object frame control onto your form or report, size it, then follow the bouncing ball...the wizard, that is.

I've been trying to upgrade the graphics of a database, and the other day discovered an embedded .bmp file of over 1,000,000 bytes! Changed it to a .gif file and it's now 30 kb. I'd like to get smaller than that...oh well.

Good luck.
Gus Brunston An old PICKer, using Access2000
padregus@attbi.com

 

[ahmun]

Gus, Thanks for that tip...

A question, though,
I noticed that to link the file I must have the actual hard-coded path name of the file. If I wanted to move the DB around (say when it's done and I move it to the actual server) how can I make the unbound object control access the file referentially (like how it is done in HTML)

Thanks,
Earnie If you are born once, you will die twice.
If you are born twice, you will die once.

 

[MSMINNICH]

I don't know if this will work, but how about creating a form with nothing but the graphic on it and then embedding it as a subform in all of the others?