>This happens when you use general fields. General fields store a lot of information about the application that have to handle it, and indeed store a LOT of information mostly uneeded. Just append a 2K bytes BMP to a DBF and look how much it's FPT file size grows.

Actually, I'm creating a .BMP file in the temp directory, then I'm creating a cursor with a field that contains the path and file name. In the report I create an OLE object with the Picture From property set to Field, which points to the field in my cursor. The cursor only contains the path and file name, not the actual bitmap itself.

Does this make sense?