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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
Keywords: bitmaps color W4W Write
Message-ID: <72439@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 02:20:17 GMT
References: <1991May14.164956.19963@cpqhou.uucp> <1991May15.081353.28646@agate.berkeley.edu> <32878@usc> <1991May15.204141.8417@cs.uoregon.edu>
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In article <1991May15.204141.8417@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>In article <32878@usc> burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally) writes:
>>I don't know about WFW but the April issue of Inside Msoft Windows sez
>>that Write was just NOT designed to display or print color pictures.
>>Therefore when you paste a color picture into a Write document, Write
>>will change to black ANY color other than white. This makes some
>>pictures look yuck fooey. The newsletter recommends using Paintbrush
>>to Save As... a Monochrome bitmap. Paintbrush will change ANY DARK COLORS
>>to black and any light colors to white. 

You can put color images in Write or Word for Windows by including them
as a Windows Metafile.  I'm not sure what the best app is for converting
a bitmap to a metafile, maybe CorelDraw or Designer will do it.  There 
should also be some cheaper alternatives.  In case this is a point of
confusion: I'm not suggesting breaking the bitmap down to drawing primitives;
I'm suggesting making a Metafile that just contains the bitmap.
Maybe there's a shareware package or a bored Windows programmer out there
that will provide a good solution to this.

Hope this helps.

Ken Sykes
Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.