Re: conditional inclusion of pictures

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Could you email me your .doc? (remove KillmapS from pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )
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Peter Jamieson
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"Mercedes.K" <MercedesK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:991AFA39-FC11-4D1D-8404-E247D5C40C77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oooof… this is driving me insane!!! But thank you so much for bearing with me.
Okay, my syntax is no longer changing since I unchecked
Tools|Options|General… etc but sadly, as you predicted, removing the
\*MERGEFORMAT switch did nothing to sort out the size of the images.
However, I am still dealing with the issue of images not showing up. So I
ran a test in a new word document with the dropdown1 field which contains:
AirFrance, AlItalia, Emirates, Etihad and so on and so forth.
I then entered some fields as follows:
1. {REF Dropdown1} which, as one would expect, returned the name of the
Airline selected in Dropdown1
2. {Includepicture “d:\\Airlines\\Logos\\AlItalia.jpg} which returns nothing
3. {Includepicture “d:\\Airlines\\Logos\\{Dropdown1}.jpg”} which returns
nothing regardless of the airline selected in dropdown1
4. {Includepicture “d:\\Airlines\\Logos\\{REF Dropdown1}.jpg”} which returns
nothing regardless of the airline selected in dropdown1
5. {IF “{Dropdown1}” = “AirFrance” “{Includepicture
“d:\\Airlines\\Logos\\AirFrance.jpg”}” {IF “{Dropdown1} = “AlItalia”
“{Includepicture “D:\\Airlines\\Logos\\AlItalia.jpg”}”}} which worked a few
minutes ago for AlItalia but not for AirFrance (go figure) but which no
longer returns anything at all and the only thing I can find that I can think
of that I did between the first try and the second is that I changed a little
formatting on the page and typed this out in the same document because I lost
it the first time I did it directly online!!!!!
I’m going to give the whole lot another try with a fresh… will move the
logos into a newly created folder and rewrite everything in a new word doc
and see what happens!


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

> But then I lock the form and test and no images appear and so I unlock > and
> every time I unlock, I find my syntax has changed to the following:
> { INCLUDEPICTURE "Airlines/1%20AWB%20Logos/.jpg" \* MERGEFORMAT }

Uncheck Word Tools|Options|General|Web Options|Files|Update links on save

For the image size thing, make sure there is no \*MERGEFORMAT switch in the
field. I doubt if that will fix it, but it seems the most likely culprit as
things stand!

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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Mercedes.K" <MercedesK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30D38073-3AAB-4C60-A326-A32AC13159CA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thank you both again.
> Peter, I appreciate the offer to send you the images but I'm quite > certain
> they are the same size. In Photoshop, they're all 200dpi and are all
> approximately 7cm wide (and between 1 and 7 cm high depending on the > shape
> of
> the logo (or approx 600 pixels wide by 100 to 600 high)
>
> Graham, if you'll bear with me... I have NO idea why this isn't > working.
> Really liked your idea of simply referncing the dropdown name (so long > as
> it's the same as the file name). Didn't realise it could be done that > way
> but yes, makes perfect sense.
> Sorry, this is all very new to me.
> However, it won't work.
> Here's my syntax, just as you said except that I moved the images into > a
> new
> folder...
> { Includepicture "d:\\Airlines\\1 AWB Logos\\{ REF DropDown1 }.jpg" }
>
> But then I lock the form and test and no images appear and so I unlock > and
> every time I unlock, I find my syntax has changed to the following:
> { INCLUDEPICTURE "Airlines/1%20AWB%20Logos/.jpg" \* MERGEFORMAT }
>
> Is that normal or am I doing something wrong?
>
>
> Thank you both so much.
>
>
>
> "Peter Jamieson" wrote:
>
>> > 2) All the logos are saved at the same resolution of 200dpi and are >> > all
>> > approximately 3 inches wide and yet some show up at the right size >> > and
>> > others
>> > show up much smaller (about 1 inch wide)
>>
>> Are you creating the graphics yourself or getting them from elsewhere? >> I
>> just wonder whether the .jpgs really are all the same size or whether
>> they
>> look the same size in the application you usually use to check. (It's >> not
>> an
>> area I'm particularly familiar with, otherwise I'd be more specific! >> You
>> are
>> welcome to e-mail them to me (despam my e-mail
>> pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by removing the KillmapS if you want to >> do
>> that) and I'll have a look.
>>
>> -- >> Peter Jamieson
>> http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
>>
>> "Mercedes.K" <MercedesK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:72AA1F4D-10DF-4589-BEA9-14DABEE5E4F6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi there...
>> > I have created a form that has a dropdown list of airlines such as
>> > AlItalia,
>> > Emirates, etc... and I've entered an IF / THEN string to include the
>> > logo
>> > of
>> > the airline so that if Emirates is selected then the Emirates logo
>> > appears,
>> > and so on and so forth.
>> > I'm having a few issues though...
>> > 1) All the logos show, but one. For some reason when I "Update >> > Field"
>> > after
>> > selecting "Air France" the logo simply doesn't appear. I get a >> > blank.
>> > As
>> > far as I can see, the syntax is fine!
>> > 2) All the logos are saved at the same resolution of 200dpi and are >> > all
>> > approximately 3 inches wide and yet some show up at the right size >> > and
>> > others
>> > show up much smaller (about 1 inch wide)
>> > 3) Is there an easy way to have the "includepicture" field update
>> > automatically? There are a number of users who will use this form >> > and
>> > even
>> > if I select to update fields in the options so that the form prints
>> > properly,
>> > they're going to get confused when they don't see the logo pop up.
>> >
>> > Here's a shortened version of what I have...
>> > {IF {Dropdown1} = "Air France" "{Includepicture "D:\\Fake Stuff\\1 >> > AWB
>> > Logos\\AirFrance.jpg"}" {IF {Dropdown1} = "AlItalia" >> > "{Includepicture
>> > "D:\\Fake Stuff\\1 AWB Logos\\AlItalia.jpg"}" {IF {Dropdown1} =
>> > "Emirates"
>> > "{Includepicture "D:\\Fake Stuff\\1 AWB Logos\\Emirates.jpg"}" >> > "" }}}
>> >
>> > Thanks so much
>> > mercedes
>>
>>



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