Hi Stephen,

It's a small world. Do you still have relatives up here in business?

If you ever get up this way, shoot me a message. Perhaps we could meet.

Guy


>Hi Guy,
>
>The BitsPerPixel is set to 1 because in the VB example (which works) also requires it to be set to 1. If left at the default of 4, even VB chokes on it.
>I will however, try this in the VFP prg as it cannot hurt at this point. I did try other output formats but I get the same error each time. If I do an ignore of the error in VFP, it does do the conversion.
>
>Steve
>
>PS - I'm originally from Marlborough NH and know Peterborough fairly well. My father even ran a flower shop there years ago.