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From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Converting B&W BMPs to Color
Message-ID: <1647@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 13 Nov 90 21:45:33 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil ()
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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Windows saves black and white bit-maps in a different format than color
bit-maps, presumably because b&w can get by with a bit per pixel whereas
color requires a nybble (16 colors) or a byte (256 colors).

Does anyone know of a way within Windows to convert b&w to color. The
paint utility has a feature to save a bit-map as a different format, but
when I saved a b&w as color, the file came out all black. The manual
doesn't have much to say about this subject.

Has anyone written a utility to do this conversion? Short of that, where are
the specs for the different file formats published?

Thanks.