Graphic Location/OLE Bug?

Question

Hi u2013
Iu2019m using Crystal 2008 (fully patched) and Visual Studio .Net 2003
We upgraded to Crystal 2008 as we specifically needed to dynamically load images into reports.
Iu2019ve encountered a problem that causes both the report designer and my application to crash.
We have a directory that contains over 70,000 passport size photographs uploaded from various sources. The report selects a number of these based on a URL thatu2019s constructed from within the procedure that feeds the report.
Iu2019ve tracked this problem down for one jpg image although there could be any number in the directory, as having run the report with different parameters Itu2019s hit and miss as to whether or not it works.
I can view this image in all sorts of other applications such as IE, Paint Programs, and previous versions of Crystal with no problem.
If I insert it as a picture (ole object) in crystal 2008 it interprets the pixel size as being cm which results in an image of 670 x 957 cm which is clearly wrong. Worst still if I link to this image via the graphic location and refresh the report I get crw32.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close which it promptly does.
When running from within a .Net application Iu2019ve had out of memory and division by 0 errors which Iu2019m assuming are down to the fact that the report is misinterpreting the image size.
The image thatu2019s been causing the problems can be found here if anyone wants to download and try it
http://winster.ad.nottingham.ac.uk/saturn2/photo/4050360.jpg
But as Iu2019ve mentioned this is only one out of an unknown number of over 70,000 making it impossible to track down and exclude any that may cause problems.
Any help appriciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Hi - after a bit more investigation I wrote a small application to scan the directories to try and identify the corrupt files although this doesn't really help me in the long term as these directories are added to as and when and the scan takes hours so it isn't really a viable option and Iu2019m still getting other errors that I canu2019t track down.
There are three 'types' of corrupt jpg's Iu2019ve tracked so far which Iu2019ve tested in the designer. Examples can be found at previous URL:
Resolution Error as mentioned previously
another example 4090552.jpg
Designer: insert picture - interprets pixels as cm i.e. 9 meters+ picture in 72k file
Graphic location - crash on refresh
Run time  - division by 0 - crash
Out of  Memory Error
example 4077115.jpg  
doesn't display in Explorer but can right click and copy to get the file 
Designer - insert picture - crash
Graphic location - crash on refresh
Run time - memory could not be read - crash
A Generic Error occurred in GDI+
example 4067352.jpg
Designer - insert picture - intermittently displays
Graphic location - doesn't display - fair enough
Run time - Division by 0 error - displays but totally wrong size
In addition after excluding all files identified above I get these at runtime when running via an asp .net application streaming the report to pdf
ASP.NET 1.1.4322.0 worker process
Division by 0
Invalid Pointer
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown
Error in File wr_course_list_by_school {C2665C87-3BEC-4B87-A620-309A3D37B3F2}.rpt: The request could not be submitted for background processing. (seems to work if can grow not checked)
All of these are related to the graphic location as it runs fine when the link is commented out
One for the moderators I think,  pretty much makes the software unusable for what we bought it for.