Using .jpg images in a MS Access BLOB OLE field

Post Author: bsorensen
CA Forum: General
This is condensed from page 124 of the CR v8.5 User's Guide:
"BLOB (Binary Large Object) fieldsIn general, Crystal Reports allows you to access BLOB fields containing: JPEG, TIFF, or PNG images. In addition, if your data resides in a Microsoft Access database, then Crystal Reports enables you to report on BLOB fields containing OLE 1 and 2 objects and metafiles."
I have a report that prints one page for each record. I want to include an image that is unique to each record. The above says I should be able to use .jpg's; however, when I do, each page displays only the path to the image and not the image itself.
I defined an OLE object field in my Access 03 database, performed an insert object and pointed the path to each file. I use CR v8.5 Standard.
When I change the images to bitmap (.bmp files), it does display the images; however, the resolution is inferior to .jpg.
Any Ideas?

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Edited by: fgb on 06-Feb-2010 13:00

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