Re: [Pythoncard-users] better GIF screen shots on Windows

   Hi Kevin,

> Then I bring up Microsoft Paint which comes with Windows and paste that
into
> a new document and save in GIF format. When the image is converted to GIF,
> the colors are reduced to 256 (8-bit) and at that point any smooth color
> gradients get messed up.

   On Windows, I save screenshots as true colour BMPs from Paint and the use
bmp2png to convert to PNG format. This preserves gradiants and other images
and compresses reasonably well.
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA010446/b2p-home/index.html

   Neil