wmf vs. jpg

rbuser

We are struggling to print images from within reportbuilder. We are
printing invoices for our whole corporation and must swap images in and out
of a report based on the company that sold the product.

The problem is that the jpg images are blurry when printed to a printer.
The wmf's are crystal clear when printed, but take about 7 times longer to
print on average. Anyone have any ideas as to why this might occur. I
guess the best solution would be to get the jpg's to print clear. I think
report builder or the printer maybe trying to convert them or something.
Does it matter which printer is selected when I am building the report?
When I drop a jpg onto my report it blows it up to be a huge image, but when
I drop a same size wmf, it imports it fine. By shrinking the jpg down I
think I lose quality.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Rick Whitaker
Iowa Glass Depot

nicocizik

Hi Rick,

ReportBuilder converts all images to bitmaps before printing. Depending on
how compressed your jpeg images are, you my loose a certain amount of
quality when using them. To increase the quality of the jpeg output you
might try a couple of things.

1. Set Report.DirectDraw to True and see if that helps.
2. Try updating your printer driver to the latest version.
3. Convert your jpeg images to bitmaps manually, then add the bitmaps to
your report.

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