Hi,

According to Crystal Reports technical support, the only way to insert
a picture (bitmap, icon, etc.) into a Crystal Reports report at
runtime is to store the picture in an OLE Object field, then try to
read it from there.  Based on my past experience with Crystal Reports
Technical support, I suspect that perhaps this is not the only
solution and there might exist another method to access the picture
file directly. I thought using a formula in the report and supplying
the path and name of the picture file would work, but unfortunately I
dont know the syntax for such formula. Crystal Reports solution is OK
as long as one is storing only several small pictures in the database,
but once the pictures become large and records go beyond 150, the
report generation process slows down tremendously. Does anyone know of
any other solutions to this problem?

Thanks

Ray