Insert and display images in a report

Hi ABAPers, I need to insert and display an image (bitmap format) in a standard ABAP report. With the consideration that the image (an employee photograph) could vary depending on the employee numer the user enter as an input parameter for the report. Any ideas of how can I do it? Help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Sebastian.

No you cant do it as Vashmi already said so , you can upload the pictures in ALV, but in your requirement I must say you should see the OSS note # 353949
<b>FYI</b>
Symptom
In the following note you will find some of the most frequently asked questions and their answers. Most answers are release independent, but some are valid for release 4.6 only.
Other terms
Questions, picture in header, profile, FAQ
Solution
[1] Question: Is it possible to configure the profile e.g. for a                   person?
[2] Question: How can I bring a picture of the person into the                   profile header?
[1] Question: Is it possible to configure the profile e.g. for a                   person?
Answer: It is possible to add or delete sub-profiles. You can do this in the customizing (transaction OOPF). There you can deactivate sub-profiles for an object type. Or add a new existing sub-profile.
<b>[2] Question: How can I bring a picture of the person into the                   profile header?
Answer:
You should have an employees picture with format JPG or BMP...
Start transaction OAAD to add the picture to SAP ArchiveLink. Press the Create-Button there. You have to type in PREL for the Business object and HRICOLFOTO for the Document type. Then press create. On the popup you must maintain the wished Personnel number for that the picture should be valid. Then press 'Continue'. Choose the picture and continue.
For the screen header 00 (if it isn't changed) you should see the picture in the profile.</b>
Hope thisll give you idea!!
<b>P.S award the points.</b>
Good luck
Thanks
Saquib Khan
"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers!!"

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          setMaximumSize(new Dimension(w, h));
     //Method to draw the selected image
     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
          super.paintComponent(g); //We invoke super in order to: Paint the background, do custom painting.
          g.drawImage(picture.getImage(), 0, 0, this); //Draw the image at its natural state
}//The endEdited by: onslow77 on Dec 16, 2009 7:30 PM

Efficiency of decoding and displaying image files?

BRIEF SUMMARY
My question is this: can Flash Player download JPG and GIF
files from a server and rapidly open/decode them, ready for
display, efficiently and
entirely 'in memory'?
Would Flex be a good choice of language for developing a RIA
that needs to continually download lots of JPG and GIF images
on-the-fly from the server and render them on the screen? I *don't*
want my application to thrash the hard disc.
BACKGROUND
I am designing a 'rich' web app, and I'm investigating
whether Flex is the right tool for the job.
Although Flash's animation features are an obvious selling
point for implementing my user interface, I also need to do some
server-side rendering. What I want to do is perhaps a little
unorthodox: I will be generating lots of GIF and JPG files on the
fly and these will be streamed to the client (along with other
application data, e.g. in XML format) to update different parts of
the on-screen document. In need this to happen very quickly (in
some cases, creating the effect of animation).
It happens that JPGs and 16-colour GIFs will be, by far, the
most efficient formats for streaming the images, because of the
nature of the application. I could of course send the images in
some proprietary format, geared for my application, but presumably
decoding the images would be slow as I would have to implement this
myself in ActionScript, and so I would be limited by the speed of
Flex 'bytecode'. (I realise Flash is a lot more optimised than it
once was, but I am hoping to see a gain from using image formats
that Flash natively understands!)
Naturally the internet bandwidth should (in principle) be the
bottleneck. However, assuming I can get my image files to the
client on time, want I want to know is:
how efficient is Flash at loading such files?
Bearing in mind that I'm not just displaying the occasional
image -- I will be doing this continuously. Most of the images
won't be huge, but there will be several separate images per
second.
The image files will be a mixture of normal colour JPGs and
4-bit colour GIFs (LZW-compressed). I know that Flash natively
supports these formats, but depending on how Adobe have implemented
their LZW/Huffman decoding and so on, and how much overhead there
is in opening/processing downloaded image files before they are
ready to 'blit' to the screen, I imagine this could be pretty fast
or pretty slow!
If my client only has a modest PC, I don't want the JPG/GIF
decoding alone to be thrashing his CPU (or indeed the disc) before
I've even got started on 'Flashy' vector stuff.
I'm new to Flash, so are there any 'gotchas' I need to know
about?
E.g. Would it be fair to assume Flash Player will do the
decoding of the downloaded image entirely 'in memory' without
trying to do anything clever like caching the file to disc, or
calling any libraries which might slow down the whole process? It
would be no good at all if the images were first written to the
client's hard disc before being ready to display, for example.
Further, if I'm doing something a little out-of-the-ordinary,
and there is no 'guarantee' that images will be loaded quickly,
what I'm doing might be a bad idea if a later version of Flash
Player may (for example) suddenly start doing some disc access in
the process of opening a newly downloaded image. So, while I could
just 'try it and see', what I really need is some assurance that
what I'm doing is sensible and is likely to carry on working in
future.
Finally, I imagine JPG/GIF decoding could be something that
would vary from platform to platform (e.g. for the sake of
argument, Flash Player for Windows could use a highly-optimised
library, but other versions could be very inefficient).
This could be the 'make or break' of my application, so all
advice is welcome! :) Thanks in advance.

You need a servlet/jsf component to render the image in the response.
Look at this: http://www.irian.at/myfaces-sandbox/graphicImageDynamic.jsf

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