Insert image - wrong size
I have been sent a logo which I have inserted into our Word templates. When inserted it is about a quarter of the size it is when viewed in windows explorer, paint etc. This is great as it is actually the size we need and the text remains readable.
Now when Insert this same image into our access reports it is the larger size (not good). If I resize the image in a graphics program the text becomes unreadable.
What makes Word resize this image when inserted (dpi?) and how can I make the image behave the same in the Access report?
Now when Insert this same image into our access reports it is the larger size (not good). If I resize the image in a graphics program the text becomes unreadable.
What makes Word resize this image when inserted (dpi?) and how can I make the image behave the same in the Access report?
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The image control in Access is different than the one in Word ... to get a straight answer on why they made them different ... who knows ???
<who knows ???>
stebe, QPR,
My only guess is that Word will let you do some very basic image editiing (Contrast, Brightness, cropping, transparency)
...while Access will not.
stebe, QPR,
My only guess is that Word will let you do some very basic image editiing (Contrast, Brightness, cropping, transparency)
...while Access will not.
Another thought,
Although Access will display Gif's, Bmp's and Jpg's... it actually stores them internally as bmp files.
(This is why a 50k image file will bloat the database by about 200k)
Also the "Ole Server" that Access uses may effect this...
But I won't even go there!
:)
jeffc
Although Access will display Gif's, Bmp's and Jpg's... it actually stores them internally as bmp files.
(This is why a 50k image file will bloat the database by about 200k)
Also the "Ole Server" that Access uses may effect this...
But I won't even go there!
:)
jeffc
jeff ... I was not asking what is different between Word and Access image handling , I was posting rhertorically ... why did M$ make Office and Access image handling different? :-)
as to the real issue at hand ... how to shrink the logo like you can in Word and add that to your Access reports ... you can size it in Word and then copy / paste it from Word onto your Access report (while in design mode), that creates a Word doc object on the report which you can then convert to a Word Picture object (right click, select document object convert).
Steve
as to the real issue at hand ... how to shrink the logo like you can in Word and add that to your Access reports ... you can size it in Word and then copy / paste it from Word onto your Access report (while in design mode), that creates a Word doc object on the report which you can then convert to a Word Picture object (right click, select document object convert).
Steve
Oh yeah Steve, I knew what you meant
;)
Yeah, I'm still wondering why moving columns "Looks" slightly different in Windows Explorer, Outlook, Project, and Excel!
:)
<If I resize down to 100 square in the image program the text is blurry and it prints bad>
..happend to me once as well. As soon as I got the image sized just right, we could not read the blurry text on the image.
arrrrrr!
:)
;)
Yeah, I'm still wondering why moving columns "Looks" slightly different in Windows Explorer, Outlook, Project, and Excel!
:)
<If I resize down to 100 square in the image program the text is blurry and it prints bad>
..happend to me once as well. As soon as I got the image sized just right, we could not read the blurry text on the image.
arrrrrr!
:)
the company I work for has a logo with text that is set at an angle with text set horizontally beneath it ... how bad do you think that looks when it gets shrunk :-)
I have been trying to get them to have someone make us a nice pretty icon for a long time by it just does not seem to matter what I use for icons in my app so I use the full blown logo in my splash :-)
I have been trying to get them to have someone make us a nice pretty icon for a long time by it just does not seem to matter what I use for icons in my app so I use the full blown logo in my splash :-)
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It may all be dpis (that I don't really understand how apps handle this). If I open in an image editor it is around 400px square, when I insert into Access - same size. When I insert into Word it is 100px square (which is what I want). If I resize down to 100 square in the image program the text is blurry and it prints bad. In Word the properties show it as 200 dpi the image editor shows 72 dpi