>>I'm not positive, I don't know how to open MSPaint up to automation, maybe someone else here does?
>
>I doubt MSPaint is an automation server, but I think you can do with Visio Automation. That wouldu be cool.
>
>Creating the pictures doesn't seem the difficult part, you can even create those with markup languages:
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VmL~softwareEng
>
>But how are ou gonna save it as a GIF, thats what seems to me as trickiest.

Mike,

A kludge would be to insert the image into a Word document and save it as an HTML file. Word does the conversion from BMP to GIF.