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From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: saving a windows contents
Message-ID: <paxe8x52@cctb.wa.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:25:01 GMT
References: <jan.666796822@prisma>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA
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In article <jan.666796822@prisma> jan@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Jan Buitenhuis) writes:
| I've got a window with colored contents. It uses it's own palette.(256 colors)
| What I want to do is to save this contents as a .BMP file.
| I tried with ALT-PRTSCR and then pasting it to Paintbrush. It looked
| fine. But when I saved it (8 Bit bmp file), it apperently only saved
| the 16 colors Paintbrush works with and not all 256 that are in the
| picture. Is there another way or an other program then Paintbrush to
| save my picture as a .bmp file (including palette etc.)?

The "Save As..." dialog has an Options button that will let you select
the bit depth of the saved bitmap.


Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com