RE: JPG as General Fields in FRX

Author: John Weller

Posted: 2014-07-30 at 13:09:24

I recently posted a query re screenshots and was advised to use PNG format

which works well - have you tried converting the JPGs to PNG> Just a WAG.

John Weller

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> I have a handful of logos that are all different sizes. I want to show

them on a

> report but when I use the actual physical files, I can't control the

centering

> properly.

> I've got a large image field on the report - but if my image is tiny, it

> immediately aligns to the left. When an image is larger, it fills nicely.

> (I hope that explains the problem well)

>

> I've suggested adding white space to the client (I believe they are still

> laughing)

>

> So, my thinking went to General Fields.

> First, I know general fields are a bad way to go on this but this is the

only way

> to support proper centering.

> So now the real issue is that when I take a JPG file, it wants to use the

> Windows Photo Viewer, which doesn't support native viewing.

> If I convert the JPG to a BMP, it works properly (because it's using MS

> Paint) BUT the quality is terrible.

> I tried to explicitly note the JPG as a Paint.Picture, but it still wants

to use the

> Windows Photo Viewer.

>

> Has anyone found a good solution to this (either a better General OLEClass

> for JPG) or a better overall solution?

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