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From: wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and Bitmaps
Keywords: Windows, Bitmaps, Format
Message-ID: <22886@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 28 Jun 90 19:42:29 GMT
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In article <5301@uceng.UC.EDU> fboerio@uceng.UC.EDU (F. J. Boerio) writes:
>
>Hi, I would like to know if anyone could tell me the format that Windows
>3.0 expects bitmaps (.BMP extension) to be in.  It would be fantastic if
>they were something like TIFF, Gif, Raster, or something like that.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>     - Jim
>
>-- 
>F.J. Booerio:  fboerio@uceng.uc.edu
>University of Cincinnati
>Department of Materials Science

From what I understand, BMP is Window's (OS/2's) own graphics file
format.  There are ways to make the other Graphics formats into BMP.
Personally I have been trying the ShareWare program GCP42 (I think) that
runs in Windows. (It seems to run fine in standard mode despite the
warning windows gives you when you try to run it.)  GCP allows you to
load in GIF pictures and then save them in a couple of formats.  I save
the loaded picture in the PCX format.  At that point I run PaintBrush
that came with windows and load the PCX picture.  From PaintBrush you
can save the picture in BMP format.  If you save the BMP picture in your
Windows' directory, you can use it as the 'wallpaper' background. I have
had good luck so far using this setup! 

-Dean Wallwey 


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