>>>Hi Dave. I avoided using general fields and instead use a function. The function returns the name and path of the jpg file given the primary key. All jpgs are named using the primary key.
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>>how does the .jpg end up getting printed ?
>>how does the .jpg file end up on the report itself ?
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>Two short questions, one long answer... This is how I did it.
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>Drop an OLE object onto the report. The in the file property put a function call that returns the full path and file name of the image. In my case I am putting people pictures on the report so I call a function gettheguysphoto(id) where id is the unique id for a person.
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>Whamo blamo done.

Fine, and probably doing quite nice in 6 - but I'm stuck with the stupid problem of printing jpgs in 5, and I see no other way but using general fields, which works, well, almost - I get the icon instead of the actual picture. I figure the general idea was to have the user click on the icon on the printed report and it would automagically become a picture...

I've seen one message from someone with the same problem, poor guy didn't get no reply. You got any?