>There's one little tweak left to do and I strongly believe it may be related to Office apps vs. your code. As presently coded, the images get converted to a 256 color palette. My guess is that this is Word doing the conversion. The reason I believe this is if I copy and paste a Word image into MS Paint, the MS Paint image is more than twice the size of raw image data we receive in a DIB via .GetData( CF_DIB ).
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>Example:
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>Saved as 24 color BMP via Paint: 17,334
>Saved as BMP created from Word DIB: 6,838 (256 color palette)
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>Note: I recieved the same result regardless of how I pasted (Edit/Paste Special) my source images into Word: bitmap, Windows Metafile, or DIB all resulted in a palette conversion being performed by Word.
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Well that's what I thought. If you paste to WordPad then drop into VFP, you get 24 BPP


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>Herman, thanks again for all your hard work on this thread!!!
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No problem at all. Playing with this thing added my experienced too :-)