The conversion process does require exporting the Report to Snapshot format
first but it is performed programmatically. It does not require the external
MS Snapshot viewer just the native Access ability to export to Snapshot that
exists from A97 SR1 and later. I have not seen any significant Image related
issues with conversion to Snapshot from A2K on and I have tested hundred's
of reports. Your experience is not the norm.

I purchased the DynaPDF library and negotiated rights so that it could be
distributed as a Freeware solution. PDF conversion is performed within a
standard C++ DLL that does not require Registration or a Reference be set to
the DLL. No PDF printer driver is required. This is important to me as I
want to limit the amount of tech support required for this solution.

I am slowly exposing more functionality of the DynaPDF library. Compression,
security, combining multiple PDF docs etc.. Early next year I should be able
to display a PDF document within an Access Form/Report without requiring and
ActiveX or OLE Frame control.

I am not espousing that my PDF solution is the best. For most people, and
especially single users, a PDF Printer Driver is by far the simplest and
easiest solution to implement. But for corporate desktops that are locked
down tight, my solution is a very attractive alternative. For developers
that want/need control over the conversion process, again my solution is an
viable alternative. For Developer's that require complete control they can
simply purchase the DynaPDF library directly.

I looked at their web site.  The purchase price is what I would consider
very reasonable.  If it's as good as they say it is, it's a bargain.  They
have volume pricing (even better discounts) but I didn't see anything about
restrictions on redistributing the licenses to clients.

I too will be looking forward to the results of Salad's evaluation.

Salad just for your own knowledge base, if you are having trouble with
loading a specific image here is some info that may be of use to you.

Here is a NewsGroup post of mine containing code showing how to convert the
contents of the Image control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps
alleviate the "Out of Memory" error that can popup when printing image
intensive reports.

 From: Stephen Lebans (StephenLebans@mvps.org)
     Subject: Re: Reports with potentially 1000's of images
     View: Complete Thread (5 articles)
     Original Format

     Newsgroups: microsoft.public.access.reports
     Date: 2002-11-13 13:16:03 PST

Hi Steve, I would add two other items.
1) Turn of the "Importing Image" dialog window via the registry keys as
outlined here:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0038.htm
Make sure you do it for all Image types that you using that contain the
key.

2) Change all of the Images to Bitmaps at runtime. I have been able to
print previously unprintable reports by doing this last step. Here's a
previous post of mine on the subject.

From: Stephen Lebans (StephenLebans@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Images in Reports
View: Complete Thread (18 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.access.reports
Date: 2002-09-16 18:46:39 PST

Bruce I finally got a chance to test your method last night. It helped
but only with the actual printing and not the Print Preview itself.
I was able to print the failed Report directly to the printer or to a
disk printer file so that's great! Don't get me wrong, it's still a good
thing because at least you can print the report!

Unfortunately Acess still runs out of resources when you page back and
forth through Print Preview.
I plan to spend some time onthis issue shortly.
Here is the code I use to convert any Jpeg, Gif, or Metafile into a BMP.
Rather than using one of my API solutions I have cheated and set a
Reference to Standard OLE Types type library in order to get at the
SAVETODISK method. But no ActiveX controls are required

Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)

Private ctr As Long

ctr = ctr + 1

Select Case ctr
   Case 1
    Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\A.jpg")

   Case 2
   Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\b.jpg")

   Case 3
   Me.Image10.Picture = CreateBitmapFile("C:\c.jpg")
   ctr = 0

   Case Else
   ctr = 0

End Select

End Sub

Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
ctr = 0
End Sub

Private Function CreateBitmapFile(fname As String) As String

Dim obj As Object

Set obj = LoadPicture(fname)
If Not IsNull(obj) Then

SavePicture obj, "C:\SL11-52"
DoEvents
End If

CreateBitmapFile = "C:\SL11-52"
Set obj = Nothing

End Function

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