Converting Text into an image

Hello.

Need a bit of help. In SQL 2000 I have a text field within a table and I want to copy in into a new table, but as an Image. I know that an Explicit conversion isn't allowed but I was wondering if any of you know if it is possible to somehow change it.

Any input or suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance.:)

You could write a program that takes the text, prints it to a picturebox. You could then save the picturebox as an image file and upload it to the database.

Hope this helps,

if you use Negative0's suggest, which is good, you can use the .appendChunk and .getChunk menthods along with a BLOB field. for a good example on how to implement the process of adding and retireve binary data from a database, please read Beacon's nice tutorial on the subject which is located at the top of the database forum!

good luck
Regan

Thanks!!!