Hi, I would like to be able to have gifs/jpgs stored in an MS access database and then pull the out using zope and display them in rendered documents. I am completely new to access. I have successfully installed the ODBCDA into zope, and are able to connect to an access database and pull ordinary text data out of tables. I have created a table in access with a column of type 'OLE object' and put a gif image in as data. This is the only way I know how to get an image into the table. The problem I think with this is that it is a link to the gif on the HDD, and doesn't actually have the data in the table? Anyway, when I pull the data out of the table from zope, access puts a header and footer around the gif binary data, and hence a simple <dtml-var blah> wont work to display the image. Has anyone else every pulled images from an access database. Will I have to write a method to strip the header and footer from the returned data before displaying the gif? terry. -- ----------------------------- Terry Kerr (terry@adroit.net) Adroit Internet Solutions http://www.adroit.net/ 03 9563 4461 0414 938 124