Now, i have followed the instructions that was stated about not storing the picture in the table... (general field bloat concern) and stored a backlink to the picture file.

Then to display it on the form, I just change the image.picture property. Work's terrific.

Thanks...

Now, this picture, I need to print it on a report. How do I do this?

I tried the following:
1. Create a cursor to hold the results of the query for the report. One of the fields in it is called pic. It is of general format.
2. Run the query.
3. Scan through the query, replacing the general field contents with this line:
append general pic from (m.picture)
where m.picture is the name of the field in the table mentioned above.
(it contains the full name and path to the specified picture file)

Results:
1. 256 Colour bitmap. Shows on report but has no definition and is hard to view.
2. As a jpeg. Doesn't even show on the report. Only a little box with the filename in it does.

What piece of the puzzle am I still missing?

I really would like to store the image as a jpeg and print te jpeg. If worse came to worse, I could do it via a bitmap, however it still needs to print with better quality.

TIA,
Mike