Hi Hilmar,

> The freeware IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) supports at least a score of different formats (PNG is included), and it also has a batch conversion facility. However, I don't know if it can split the images files as you request.

Thank you for your recommendation. I'm looking at IrfanView and Gimp (gimp.org) but, so far, both these products seem to lack support for the BMP/MSK file format that VFP uses.

Malcolm