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On Sunday 20 April, Marjorie Moorefield wrote: > > Hi Brian and Allan, > How about a little experiment? > I don't know about MSWord or Windows 95, but if Brian would change > his to a .BMP instead of a .GIF everyone who has windows could open > it. I have a scanner and I can receive, and have rec'd Brian's charts, > but other people without scanners seem to have problems with them. > So Brian, could you save a new group of files as a .bmp? > I'd like for more people to see your charts, they are very worthwhile. > So far I'm staying inside my limit!!!! > > As Ever, > Marjorie Moorefield, > just another librarian, with PD > 64/9 > > Hello Marjorie, I have just checked your suggestion of using the BMP format and it works fine with Windows 3.11, using the 'Paintbrush' Utility. BUT - I have just spotted the fly in the ointment: A GIF file of CHART A occupies 24.5K memory, and a BMP file of the same chart occupies 340K!! This probably exceeds some peoples' allowance. I am sure that the 340K file will crunch down to about 25K, but I don't possess a program to create ZIP files (The one I have will only unzip files which have already been Zipped. I will be back on this item in a day or two. Can anyone point me in the direction of someone selling a PKzip program which will Compress files. I only have PK UNZIP for windows 3.11 Regards, -- Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>