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RETIRED! September 2009

I have officially retired from all things Access. Please do not send Email requesting support as I will not respond.

 

Keep all of your questions to the Newsgroups where everyone will benefit!

 

 

PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.

Here is a NewsGroup post of mine containing code showing how to convert the contents of the Image control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

 
From: Stephen Lebans (StephenLebans@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Reports with potentially 1000's of images
View: Complete Thread (5 articles)

Original Format

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.access.reports
Date: 2002-11-13 13:16:03 PST

Hi Steve, I would add two other items.
1) Turn of the "Importing Image" dialog window via the registry keys as
outlined here:
 http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0038.htm
Make sure you do it for all Image types that you using that contain the
key.


2) Change all of the Images to Bitmaps at runtime. I have been able to
print previously unprintable reports by doing this last step. Here's a
previous post of mine on the subject.


From: Stephen Lebans (StephenLebans@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Images in Reports
View: Complete Thread (18 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.access.reports
Date: 2002-09-16 18:46:39 PST


Bruce I finally got a chance to test your method last night. It helped
but only with the actual printing and not the Print Preview itself.
 I was able to print the failed Report directly to the printer or to a
disk printer file so that's great! Don't get me wrong, it's still a good
thing because at least you can print the report!

Unfortunately Acess still runs out of resources when you page back and
forth through Print Preview.
I plan to spend some time onthis issue shortly.
Here is the code I use to convert any Jpeg, Gif, or Metafile into a BMP.
Rather than using one of my API solutions I have cheated and set a
Reference to Standard OLE Types type library in order to get at the
SAVETODISK method. But no ActiveX controls are required


Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)

Private ctr As Long

ctr = ctr + 1

Select Case ctr
    Case 1
     Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\A.jpg")

    Case 2
    Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\b.jpg")

    Case 3
    Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\c.jpg")
    ctr = 0

    Case Else
    ctr = 0

End Select

End Sub

Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
ctr = 0
End Sub


Private Function CreateBitmapFile(fname As String) As String

Dim obj As Object

Set obj = LoadPicture(fname)
If Not IsNull(obj) Then

SavePicture obj, "C:\SL11-52"
DoEvents
End If


CreateBitmapFile = "C:\SL11-52"
Set obj = Nothing

End Function

 

 

Keywords: out of memory report convert Jpg Jpeg bitmap

 

 
 

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