Re: Report Layout

Well this worked great for my form. The form works and is fast. However,
it does not work for my report (the part that's suppose to print).. I'm
using the Visual Studio report creator and added the image to the report as
an embedded image. I can barely move my mouse even in design.. if I use
autosize for the image the text looks horrible, if I use clip, well, NOW
it's showing up as way too small (the 2" by 3"). Tried to use my large
image and "out of memory" exception keeps getting thrown again.

Help!
Thanks,
Ryan

"Ryan" <Tyveil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sketch/skewed the bmp by 1/3rd (33%). Brought the size down to 1/10th
(2.5MB). And now it displays fine and I don't run out of memory. Doesn't
make sense to me why if I look at the attributes in Paint it says
something like 2" by 3" but it "appears" the size of a normal *** of
paper. At 8.5" x 11" it appeared 3 times that size. Still confused but
at least making progress again.

"Ryan" <Tyveil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Still struggling with this. Yes I can convert the image to a .bmp. It
still looks absolutely huge in my picturebox. The image is 24MB as a
bitmap and everything (photoshop, paint, visual studio) I try to edit it
in gives me an "out of memory" error. If I try to "stretch" the image
the "out of memory" occurs during design time. Why am I stretching the
image anyways? I want to have an exact replica of the original document,
not some misproportioned image. I have 1 GB memory in this PC and no
other programs running, but it is infact sucking all my resources. Why
is it so difficult to get a word document to display on a visual basic
form - they're both MS products, you'd think there would be some
compatibility rather than going through 14 conversion steps and still
failing to work. Any other suggestions appreciated greatly. (pulling out
whats left of my hair)

Thanks.


"GhostInAK" <ghostinak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Ryan,

Yes. Why don't you have a peek at the picturebox properties. Also, any
decent graphics package will change the resolution.

-Boo

Thanks. The image quality is much better now. However, it's still
showing up in my Form as way to big. I think this is due to the
resolution. The .bmp file is 300x300 dots per inch. It must be
displaying in my picture box at something like 100x100 dots per inch.
Is there anyway to modify the PictureBox so that it displays
correctly?

Ryan

"GhostInAK" <ghostinak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Ryan,

Print the original MS Word file to the MS Document Imaging printer.
This will produce an MDI file which can then be saved as a TIFF.
From there any decent graphics package can convert it to any format
you desire.

-Boo

I am writing a VB (2005) program that will allow the user to fill
out and print a form. The form input is stored in a database (SQL
2005) to be retrieved/viewed/printed later. The form is originally
a Word Document, I also have this form as a PDF. Appearance and
quality is critical for this form.. so what I thought I'd do is
convert the form to a bitmap, use a picture object on my VB form and
overlay textbox (no border) controls on top of the image so the
appearance remains exactly the same. I'm having problems getting
the document to bitmap format however.. PDF only gives the option to
save as a JPG, which is obviously reducing the quality (there's some
fuzziness around the letters) and the image size ratio is not right
- on my VB form, a small portion of the document (the top left
corner) fills the screen.. it's much too large. The letters are at
least double size what they should appear.

Any suggestions how to go about making this form work in my VB
application without reducing the quality? Thanks,

Ryan









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