In addition to what Guffa said, these may help. Look at the System.Security.Permissions.RegistryPermission class and/or Add an app.manifest file and alter the requestedExecutionLevel - this will invoke UAC. Dave BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)

Hi, Thanks to everyone for your ideas! I managed to get the images. Here's how: Images in RTF are as hexadecimal strings (as noted from the specifications). So all that needed to be done was: 1. Convert the hexadecimal to a byte array: http://www.koders.com/csharp/fid8BD422682325288B294A97714AC061D115F0307D.aspx[^]) 2. Then make an image out of this array: byte[] bData; // The byte array MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(bData, 0, bData.Length); Image iMage = Image.FromStream(memStream); Et voila! Sarab

Any ideas where I could read more about better resizing methods, esp any designed for enlarging images ? Thanks!

Thanks folks!! I appreciate everyone's help... Turns out, I didn't have to cross the Seven Seas: I managed to solve the issue by explicitly disposing (Image.Dispose()) some images I was creating during processing... I used to think that .NET automatically clears the memory being held by an image object once all references to it are removed - Guess that isn't the case... Learnt a lot from these discussions though - Thanks! -- modified at 16:03 Friday 3rd February, 2006

and using the foreach loop worked wonders! The execution time's safely within the acceptable range now :) Thanks !!!

Understood the anti-aliasing part.. But didn't quite understand your first suggestion.. As for your second suggestion, I figure it doesn't solve the memory problem.. Guess will take a shot at attempting your third suggestion though... Thanks... Sarab

:) Yea, it is just an array lookup...

I've got nothing to prove to you. All I said was that the JIT has the possibility of exceeding the performace of C++ based code. I, in no way, said that is was faster. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Nein problemo! :) You've done great.. Thanks for the help... Sarab.

The articles are great! Thanks man... Sarab.

gotcha.. thanks..