Pictures in CR XI

I've already mentioned how Crystal handles pictures - poorly :( It does internal conversion of a picture (JPG for instance) into bitmap, increasing the size of the report many times :(
One good thing about Crystal XI is that you can have pictures on the file system instead of embedding them into the report. Put a blank placeholder picture (that has 1-2 Kb) and specify File Location for the real picture. It will shift the job of downloading a picture to the network, but if picture is conditional (think client logos) your report is not several MB long unnecessary ...