Compress a picture using VB6

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  14 years ago

  by Kassem

  Kassem Baalbaki

  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  Joined 14 years ago

  Hi,

   

  Does any one have an idea on how to compress a picture programmatically?

   

  What am doing is inserting pictures into Microsoft word through VB6 and I want to control the size of those pictures, and compress it if needed.

  Even though there is a utility for compressing images in office applications I wasn’t able to extract the code through recording a macro.

   

  Any assistant or ideas would be highly appreciated.

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  14 years ago

  by DoctorMahdi

  DoctorMahdi

  , Somalia

  Joined 15 years ago

  You can use one of those OCX files to compress your pictures
  download it from
  here

  Regards
  DoctorMahdi
  

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  14 years ago

  by ErwinB

  Erwin Bergsma

  Leuven, Belgium

  Joined 15 years ago

  Some time ago I tried to do similar things with pictures in PowerPoint and discovered the same: some of the newer features with pictures are only available through the UI, and not in VBA.  I guess your only option is to add a control in your VB6 app, check and compress if needed there, and then insert the picture.

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