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Print image files from Crystal Report
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What is your question? How to include images in a Crystal report? There a ways to do it in code (e.g., VB) at runtime, but from within Crystal Reports itself, you either insert the picture, create an OLE object to hold or link to the picture, or you load the pictures into your database and access them as a data field.
The first two methods are not dynamic on a record-by-record basis, so I don't think they fit your requirement.
The last option is the best one (and really, the only one) when you have to have pictures associated with records, unless you use a development environment like vb to control the reporting process. I would strongly recommend the database option, even if it requires that you use MS Access to store your pictures and creae a subreport to pick them up (if, for example, your database doesn't allow you to store pictures). The coding option would be really ugly in your scenario, I would think.
The first two methods are not dynamic on a record-by-record basis, so I don't think they fit your requirement.
The last option is the best one (and really, the only one) when you have to have pictures associated with records, unless you use a development environment like vb to control the reporting process. I would strongly recommend the database option, even if it requires that you use MS Access to store your pictures and creae a subreport to pick them up (if, for example, your database doesn't allow you to store pictures). The coding option would be really ugly in your scenario, I would think.
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Well, since Crystal only prints what it shows, you have one of two choices, as far as I can see (perhaps there are more):
1) Create a subreport that actually shows the images and place the subreport in the report footer.
2) Handle the printing of the images outside of Crystal. Depending on how you are deploying the report (how it is being run by the end user), you may or may not be able to get the images printed in conjuction with the report.
1) Create a subreport that actually shows the images and place the subreport in the report footer.
2) Handle the printing of the images outside of Crystal. Depending on how you are deploying the report (how it is being run by the end user), you may or may not be able to get the images printed in conjuction with the report.
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