[AccessD] Weird problem - ugly logo in reports

OK...let's see if I can give lots of answers...

>>> "William Hindman" <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> 4/27/2010 4:35 PM >>>
...lots of questions...
...what do you mean by "terrible"? ...is it distorted, the edges jagged, poor quality ...what?
 
*** basically poor quality. The image looks fine on its own, and it looks fine in a MS Word doc, but in access it looks "smudged." You know w/you have a stamp w/too much ink? Yeah...sort of like that.

...did you embed it in an image control set to Clip mode and resize the control to fit?
 
*** Well, this may be my problem...the resize part anyhow. W/I resize this, it is bigger than the whole form. But, still, why would it look good in Word?

...what resolution is it designed at?
 
*** it looks like 198 dpi

...what graphics format is it in? 
 
*** I've used .bmp, .jpg, .tif...and I tried cutting and pasting from the word doc.

...Word has native graphics filters that Access does not unless you reference the Word or Office Object 
 
*** Ah, I see. I do have a ref set for "Microsoft Word 12.0 Object Library" but I'm guessing I need to invoke something?
 
...first thing I'd try

...Lebans.com has a graphics filter for Access that uses Intel's native graphics ...it works quite well
*** I'll head out there in a bit and check this out.
 
...if all else fails, use one of the graphics conversion programs to convert it to an emf format which Access can use regardless 
 
*** I will look into this too
 
...hth
 
*** So do I bud...so do I. I hate w/something relatively minor like this holds me up.