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From: jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Missing 240 colors....
Message-ID: <10201@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 90 17:26:09 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.222903.23860@midway.uchicago.edu> <59925@microsoft.UUCP>
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In article <59925@microsoft.UUCP> kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) writes:
>In article <1990Dec7.222903.23860@midway.uchicago.edu> wer5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Will E. Rose) writes:
>> [can only get 16 colors + dithering, not 256 colors]
>
>Windows only uses the first 16 colors to produce dither patterns since they
>are the only colors they can count on being in the palette. ... A real
>palette-aware bitmap editor will support palette editing.

Okay, so the next logical question is:

What programs let you do this?
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