What have you meant with the "different variations in the BMP file format"?

It just appears that some programs like to save their .BMP files differently than others do. Hence the Photoshop version with the extra two-byte padding.

If you can save the image as a GIF-file, you could save it also in BMP format, right?.. or why do you prefer the GIF-format?

The only reason I mentioned it is because the .GIF file-format-specification is stricter and more well-documented, which might prevent problems like the one we just encountered.

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Tony Fabris