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From: karl@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Karl Watanabe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 256 Color BMP to 16 Color BMP
Message-ID: <1430002@hpsciz.sc.hp.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:49:02 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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>Sorry if this has already been covered.  But, most of the BMP files I
>have seen are 640x480x256 color.  When I display them in 640x480x16
>color, they are, of course, mostly grey.  Is there some utility that
>will take a best shot effort at converting 256 color BMP into 16 color

The GIF viewer for windows "wingif" does a great job of viewing .BMP, .PCX,
and .GIF files and can perform an amazing number of conversions.  It can
convert to 4,8,16,256 shades of gray, 16 colors, dither to 2 colors, etc.
I like this program better than the non windows viewers.

Karl Watanabe (no signature yet)