jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) (11/14/90)
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.